Adobe released Soundbooth yesterday and I could not use it because currently it is only compatible with Intel Macs. But over at Create Digital Music, an audio related blog, they have taken an in-depth first look at the new audio software. The writer, Peter Kirn, is a big fan of Adobe's Audition (PC only) and Soundbooth is supposed to be the simpler version of that software. He believes Soundbooth can stand out because "Already in this beta, Soundbooth includes video import capability and markers. What's so great about that? Try XML export to Flash cues you can use in a Flash file. Adobe says you can use cues to trigger animations. Flash integration could also let animators use Soundbooth as their recording tool for animation." Good read so check it out. I can't wait for Adobe to release a Power PC compatible version because I have been tired of Soundtrack for a while and Soundbooth looks good.CDM: First Look at Adobe Soundbooth
Adobe released Soundbooth yesterday and I could not use it because currently it is only compatible with Intel Macs. But over at Create Digital Music, an audio related blog, they have taken an in-depth first look at the new audio software. The writer, Peter Kirn, is a big fan of Adobe's Audition (PC only) and Soundbooth is supposed to be the simpler version of that software. He believes Soundbooth can stand out because "Already in this beta, Soundbooth includes video import capability and markers. What's so great about that? Try XML export to Flash cues you can use in a Flash file. Adobe says you can use cues to trigger animations. Flash integration could also let animators use Soundbooth as their recording tool for animation." Good read so check it out. I can't wait for Adobe to release a Power PC compatible version because I have been tired of Soundtrack for a while and Soundbooth looks good.Reader Comments
(Page 1)2. videoboy is right, There will never be a PowerPC version, in fact there is no development what so ever from Adobe for PowerPC. PowerPC is dead as the dodo. Its upgrade or die time for Mac users.
Mikej
Posted at 4:06PM on Oct 29th 2006 by mike jones
3. LOL. No development from Adobe for the PowerPC anymore. But power users of Adobe's flagship product, Photoshop, can't upgrade from the PowerPC platform because Adobe is taking their sweet time going universal. Users were told early on they would have to wait until the "next normal product cycle"(which is probably still months away).
So go buy the Intel Mac for their new products, but don't get rid of your old PowerPC until they are good and ready to provide the update professionals really need.
Thus the current irritation with Adobe.
Posted at 10:31PM on Oct 29th 2006 by Sheila Ward
4. Or... Just use boot camp and get windows versions of Photoshop/AE/Illustartor/Indesign and run them natively in Windows on your mac.
The feet dragging on Adobe's part is 50% due to the long lead time on software development across a vast array of apps that integarte - And 50% just Adobe flipping the bird to Apple for turning coat from Partner to market pilfering Competitor.
Either way Mac users have been hosed by Adobe - But boot camp levels the field again. Run both OS's and have the choice of any application you like.
Boot camp more than anything else Apple have done, or could do, makes them a very serious competitor again because they now have greater, even infinate, flexibility on what was, before Boot Cam,p a totally closed, insular and propriatry platform. Very smart move. The smartest move Apple have mad in a very long time. And people like me who ditched the mac ages ago when the G4 proved to be a dog and software inflexibility became a pain the arse, can now seriously consider moving back to the Mac and have all the benfeits of Mac without giving up the software flexibility and open options of Windows. A good thing all round.
I hear (beware unfounded rumour..) that the next version of boot camp in development will allow OS switching without re-boot... Now that really will be utopia.... or at least it will be when you can triple boot with Linux!
Mikej
Posted at 11:46PM on Oct 29th 2006 by Mike Jones
5. I'm not sure I understand the 'no-PPC evar' perspectives. If an app is Universal, by definition it's both PPC and x86. These could certainly be Intel-only, but I'm not sure why that would necessarily be the case, as [Apple, at least] compilers produce both when built.
Isn't Lightroom Universal? Doesn't that speak to their compilers?
This brings up the question as to what compilers Adobe's using (Apple's, or custom). I think that answer goes further to answering Adobe's stance on PPC development than anything else.
1. They aren't going to release a PPC compatible version. The decision was taken so they could bring the product faster to market and of course it's also true that Intel Macs are the future and PPC is dead.
Posted at 2:58AM on Oct 29th 2006 by videoboy