Amadeus II is a very powerful sound editor for Macintosh. It runs on MacOS 9.2 and up, as well as natively on MacOS X. The most recent version of Amadeus II is 3.8.7. Besides all the functions you would expect from a high-quality sound editor, Amadeus II has four main features that distinguish it from other similar products.
* Support of the Mp3 and Ogg Vorbis codecs that allow you to achieve very low file sizes, while preserving most of the original quality of your sounds.
* Support for the Mp4 and .m4a formats (MacOS 10.4 or later required).
* Support of VST Audio plugins. This plugin format allows you access to many professional sound effects from within Amadeus II. Several free plugins are included with this distribution. The effects of VST plugins can be previewed in real-time and an arbitrary number of settings can be saved for each plugin.
* Sound repairing functions. Amadeus II allows you to easily remove background noise and/or little cracks from a recording, making it the ideal tool for restoring old LP's.
* Analyzing functions. It is very easy to create sonograms or to make a detailed spectral analysis of a signal using Amadeus II.
Best of all...
... the price! Amadeus II is available for 30$ from Kagi.
More features
More features of Amadeus II include:
* Localization in french, german, italian and japanese.
* Audio Units support under MacOS X 10.2 and later.
* Support for 16 and 24Bit sounds and arbitrary sampling rates.
* Multiple undoing.
* Fast forward / rewind.
* CoreAudio support under MacOS X.
* Extensive support of markers.
* Fadings, transitions, normalization.
* Very fast filtering (using G4 velocity engine).
* Support for the formats AIFF/AIFC/FLAC/Wave/Mp3/Mp4/m4a/AAC/CAF/Ogg Vorbis/QuickTime/AVI/SoundDesigner II/u-law.
* Full support for AAC encoding (MacOS 10.4 required).
* Raw sound data import/export.
* Possibility to split files and to join several files together.
* Real-time spectral analysis and oscilloscope.
* Multiple scraps.
* Several sound generators.
...and even much more! Download a fully functional trial version (file saving and real-time analyzing functions are disabled after 15 non-consecutive days of use) and see by yourself.
Amadeus II v3.8.7. This minor free upgrade fixes a problem that would cause the program to crash intermittently on MacOS 10.4.6.
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