Soundtrack Pro 3 - Technical Specifications

Minimum System Requirements

  • Mac computer with an Intel processor

  • 1GB of RAM (2GB of RAM recommended when working with compressed HD and uncompressed SD sources; 4GB of RAM recommended when working with uncompressed HD sources)

  • ATI or NVIDIA graphics processor. Integrated Intel graphics processors are not supported except the Intel HD Graphics 3000.

  • 128MB of VRAM

  • Display with 1280-by-800 resolution or higher

  • Mac OS X v10.5.6 or later

  • QuickTime 7.6 or later

  • DVD drive for installation

  • For 5.1 surround monitoring of multichannel audio content: an audio interface with a minimum of six outputs

  • For multitrack recording: an audio interface with multiple inputs

Precise Audio Control

  • Nondestructive, sample-accurate editing of audio files

  • Support for up to 24-channel files, including mono, stereo, and surround

  • Action-based editing to modify, reorder, suspend, or delete any audio edit, plug-in, or process

  • Audio Effects and Audio Units plug-ins can be applied to supported audio files as Actions

  • Audio Effects and Audio Units plug-ins can be applied to supported audio files as real-time effect chains

  • Real-time effects applied to audio files can be rendered to Actions

  • Normalize function with Peak, RMS analysis and processing

  • Integrated multichannel file editor

  • Intelligent analysis, repair, and restoration functions for:

    • Clicks and pops

    • Power line hum

    • DC offset

    • Phase

    • Clipped signal

  • Audio time stretching without affecting pitch

  • Included time-stretch algorithms:

    • Apple Time Stretch Universal

    • Apple Time Stretch Complex

    • Apple Time Stretch Percussive

  • Integrated support for third-party time-stretch algorithms (sold separately):

    • Serato Pitch ‘n Time LE

    • SoundToys Speed

    • iZotope Radius

  • Ambient Noise Print to quickly replace unwanted noises from location recordings

  • Background Noise Removal including noise print

  • Sample ruler units in sample value, normalized, percent, and decibel view

  • Snapping to ruler ticks, seconds, frames, markers, and edit points

  • Selectable nudge values: 1 subframe, 1/4 frame, 1 frame, 10 frames, 1 second

  • Support for bit depths up to 32-bit float

  • Support for sample rates from 2kHz to 192kHz

  • Support for AIFF, WAV, MP3, AAC, CAF, BWF, SDII, NeXT, QuickTime, and STAP (Soundtrack Audio Project) file playback

  • Saves files nondestructively as STAP files or destructively as AIFF, WAV, SDII, QuickTime, CAF, or NeXT

  • Export mixes as AIFF, WAV, NeXT, SDII, MP3, AAC/Podcast, or Dolby Digital Professional (AC-3), or use Compressor for additional file support

  • Selection history

  • Waveform and customizable Frequency Spectrum views with linear and logarithmic display

  • Frequency selection and editing in Frequency Spectrum view

  • Animated waveform feedback

  • Mini-waveform view

Advanced Sound Design

  • Processes including:

    • Fade in/Fade out

    • Normalize

    • Amplitude adjust

    • Silence

    • Invert

    • Add, delete, reorder channels

    • Mono conversion

    • Resample

    • Generate silence, white noise, pink noise, sine wave, sawtooth wave, square wave, or triangle wave

  • Support for Audio Units plug-ins

  • Audio Units presets available to all Audio Units-compatible applications

  • More than 6000 sound effects, music beds, and music loops, including over 1000 in surround

  • Powerful media search engine

  • Support for Apple Loops, AIFF, WAV, MP3, AAC, CAF, and ACID sound and music libraries

Advanced Take Management

  • Multitake management with take recording and editing directly in Multitake Editor

  • Multitake Editor allows comps of multitake recordings and other audio files

  • Combine individual phrases from different takes

  • Automatic customizable crossfade between phrases

  • Single-click take selection

  • Adjustable transition boundaries for multitake comps

  • Final comp functions as stand-alone clip while retaining access to all takes

  • Slide phrases within edit boundaries

Professional Multitrack Audio Editing

  • Single window with customizable tab panes

  • Customizable window layouts

  • Dynamic tab panes with quick show/hide functionality

  • Resizable video window tab

  • Multitrack Timeline with tracks, busses, submixes, and master in mono, stereo, or surround

  • Multiple multitrack and audio file projects open at once

  • Mixed sample rates, bit depth, and file formats supported in multitrack projects

  • Time- or beat-based tracks

  • Ruler in HH:MM:SS, seconds, samples, frames, drop frame, non-drop frame, beats

  • Waveform Zoom in the Timeline

  • Find and replace related files in the Timeline

  • Adjustable playhead auto-scrolling: on, off, centered

  • Loop clip transposition

  • Loop clip speed adjustments (quadruple, double, normal, half, quarter)

  • Adjustable automatic and manual crossfades

  • Fade selector for customizing fade in, fade out, and crossfades

  • Tape style and sample repeat scrubbing

  • Rolling edit tool

  • Native and custom timecode spotting

  • Multitrack recording of mono, stereo, and multichannel files

  • Lift and Stamp tools to selectively copy voice level, process effects, and equalization print from one clip to another

  • Lifted Data sets can be saved as presets

  • Equalization Matching aligns the EQ characteristics of two selections

  • Automation parameters can move with clips or lock to absolute time

  • Pull up/pull down of audio and video to all common standards

  • Customizable clip and track colors

  • Clip locking in multitrack

  • Clip disabling in multitrack

  • Momentary mono switch

  • Automatable master tempo, master volume, master effects, and key

  • Automation of most mix and effect parameters with read, touch, and latch modes

  • Pre- and post-fader send busses for application of common effect plug-ins to multiple tracks

  • Output bussing for single fader control of multiple tracks

  • Support for multichannel audio output devices

  • Time, duration, podcast, beat, and end-of-project markers

  • Powerful browser for locating content quickly

  • Multipoint Video HUD

  • Tool HUD

  • Timecode HUD

  • Numeric Clip offset

  • Bin with access to multiple projects, media files, markers, and clips

  • Spotlight-style searching in Bin

  • Support for Multi-Touch trackpad gestures

Surround and Stereo Mixing

  • Discrete 5.1 mixing, bussing, and routing

  • Console-style Mixer with full stereo and surround meters on every track, buss, submix, and master

  • Mono, stereo, and surround files can be combined on same track

  • Support for multichannel surround files

  • Surround Panner enables panning of mono, stereo, and surround audio files

  • Surround Panner HUD with automatable controls for rotation, width, collapse, center bias, LFE balance, and individual speaker disabling

  • Surround and stereo panner automation data simultaneously available on each track

  • Automatic surround to stereo Dolby-standard downmix

  • Support for true surround and multi-mono effects

  • Over 1000 royalty-free surround sound effects and music tracks

  • Control surface support for the following protocols:

  • EuCon

  • Mackie Control

  • Logic Control

Integrated Workflow

  • AppleScript scriptable (executable from Soundtrack Pro, Final Cut Pro 7, or as AppleScript droplets for batch processing)

  • Automator actions for creation of complex multi-application workflows

  • Support for QuickTime video formats up to HD resolutions

  • Quick Look support for Soundtrack Pro Audio File Project (STAP) files

  • Integrated video tab

  • Output to SD and HD video monitors (via FireWire or PCI card)

  • HD or SD output using Digital Cinema Desktop to second Apple Cinema Display

  • Send and receive MIDI timecode and beat clock for synchronization with hardware and software

  • Integration with Final Cut Pro 7, Motion 4, DVD Studio Pro 4

  • Nondestructive, round-trip audio file editing with Final Cut Pro 7, Motion 4, and Logic Pro 9

  • Support for Final Cut Pro 7 scoring markers

  • Conform tab to conform audio edit to new Final Cut Pro 7 edits

  • Conform visual interface for highlighting changed areas

  • Accept or reject changes across entire project or selectively on a change-by-change basis

  • Podcast track to create audio-only, enhanced audio, or video podcasts

  • Support for chapter, artwork, and URL markers in video and audio podcasts

  • Export presets and customizable post-export scripts

  • View iXML metadata

  • OMF import

  • AAF import and export

Included Effects

TS = True surround

  • Dynamics

    • Adaptive Limiter

    • Compressor

    • DeEsser

    • Expander

    • Limiter TS

    • Multichannel Gain TS

    • Multipressor

    • Noise Gate

    • Surround Compressor TS

  • Distortion

    • Bitcrusher

    • Clip Distortion

    • Distortion

    • Distortion II

    • Exciter

    • Overdrive

    • Phase Distortion

  • EQ and Filter

    • AutoFilter

    • Channel EQ

    • Fat EQ

    • High Cut

    • High Pass Filter

    • High Shelving EQ

    • Linear Phase EQ

    • Low Cut

    • Low Pass Filter

    • Low Shelving EQ

    • Match EQ TS

    • Parametric EQ

    • Soundtrack Pro AutoFilter

  • Modulation

    • Chorus

    • Ensemble TS

    • Flanger

    • Modulation Delay

    • Phaser

    • Scanner Vibrato

    • Tremolo TS

  • Reverb/Delay

    • Delay Designer TS

    • PlatinumVerb

    • Soundtrack Pro Reverb

    • Space Designer TS

    • Stereo Delay

    • Tape Delay

  • Metrics and Diagnostics

    • Correlation Meter

    • Multi Meter TS

    • Test Oscillator

    • Tuner TS

  • Miscellaneous

    • Denoiser

    • Direction Mixer

    • Enveloper

    • Gain

    • Pitch Shifter II

    • Ringshifter

    • Spectral Gate

    • Stereo Spread

    • SubBass

    • Vocal Transformer

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