SoundView 1.0 for Mac Released

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Peabody Digital SoundWorks of Baltimore Maryland announces the release of a powerful and affordable multi-function digital audio tool that has enough high-end features for pro-audio users but is easy enough to use for home hobbyists. SoundView is a powerful sound analysis engine which offers spectrum analysis, formant analysis, and pitch recognition (also known as fundamental frequency analysis) of your digitally recorded sounds. Once SoundView has analyzed your sounds, it offers an extensive palette of processing techniques that can blend, morph, stretch, and otherwise twist your audio, opening up a totally new range of sonic possibilities previously unavailable in a single digital audio program.

With Soundview you can interpolate between the formants of two different sounds to create dazzling morphing effects, or apply the formants of one sound onto another, creating unusual hybrid timbres such as the classic "robotic voice" effects you could get from the old phase vocoders. With its own built-in 1024-band phase vocoder SoundView also allows you do pitch-shifting or time-stretching independently of each other, a boon for music producers and post production engineers.

Using SoundView's analysis capabilities, you can peer into the inner workings of a sound. Since SoundView displays a sound's full spectrogram on screen, you can see the frequency components of the entire sound over time rather than the spectrum of a single slice of time, which allows you to achieve the perfect mix, identify any unwanted frequency components, find out the pitches of a melody, or simply understand what makes a sound, well, SOUND the way it does.

You might find some of SoundView's functions separately in other software or hardware products, each of which could cost from several hundred or even several thousand dollars. But with SoundView, you can get features such as spectrum analysis, sound processing, and phase vocoder all for the special introductory price of $149.99 when downloading from our website!

SoundView will also be offered via mail order for the low introductory price of $174.99 which includes the software on 3.5" floppies and a printed version of the manual with an extra shipping and handling charges.

If you are interested in sound analysis or mutating sounds in unusual ways, please visit Peabody's website. A SoundView demo will be available soon.