Overview
A pro studio that’s not just for pros.
Logic Pro 9
Everything you need to make great music.
Plug-ins & Sounds
An instant, massive collection.
MainStage 2
A complete live rig, right on your Mac.
Soundtrack Pro 3
The perfect bridge to Final Cut Pro.
Production Utilities
Tools to perfect and publish your album.
Whether you’re creating audio for a web video or a feature-length film, Soundtrack Pro 3 provides the perfect bridge to Final Cut Pro. The application is loaded with powerful tools that let you make precision edits, polish dialogue quickly, restore audio, create stunning sound effects and mix in surround. And you can do it all in a single, streamlined interface that’s designed to help you fly through audio post production.
Explore Soundtrack Pro 3
Advanced audio editing.
Customise your interface.
Soundtrack Pro brings the Multitrack Timeline and File Editor together in one window, so all the tools you need are right at hand. Start with a simple Timeline, then gradually reveal additional interface controls for more sophisticated tasks. You can also easily customise your toolbars and screen layouts, even when you’re working with dual displays.
The right tools for the right edit.
Use the integrated multichannel File Editor to perform quick, nondestructive edits and processing on any clip in the Timeline. Or open the standalone File Editor for advanced controls. The Actions list keeps track of it all and lets you modify, reorder, suspend, or delete any edit or process at any time.
The Frequency Spectrum view shows you audio frequency over time, with amplitude revealed through colour intensity. Select a section with extreme precision and adjust the amplitude or cut, copy and paste it without affecting other sections.
Quick and simple navigation.
It couldn’t be easier to navigate Soundtrack Pro 3. New commands speed the process of trimming, extending clips and adding custom fades. There are options for playhead scrolling and shortcuts for auditioning changes. The Waveform Zoom feature lets you look at low-amplitude audio clips right in the Timeline. Support for Multi-Touch trackpad gestures allows you to zoom, toggle windows and control playback without reaching for your mouse. You can even time-stretch audio without affecting pitch, using three Apple time-stretch algorithms as well as popular third-party plug-ins.
Fix audio, fast.
Soundtrack Pro analyses audio files for common problems like clicks, pops, hum and phase issues, and lets you fix them individually or all at once. The improved broadband noise reduction feature uses a high-resolution noise print so you can get rid of unwanted noise, like wind and traffic, with greater precision. You can also replace unwanted sounds with ambient noise duplicated from another section of your file or from a different file. Soundtrack Pro automatically matches the length and adds crossfades to make it all sound natural.
Truly easy audio conform.
Soundtrack Pro lets you automatically sync your audio track to changes in your video edit. First, the Conform feature identifies changes in Final Cut Pro projects, then lets you use confidence ratings and audition changes to decide which ones to accept, reject or modify. Once you accept a change, Soundtrack Pro repositions your audio to sync with the picture change or removes any audio that’s no longer needed.
Powerful tools for dialogue.
Easier comps, easier edits.
The Multitake Editor lets you create a final comp in no time. Whether you record right into it or add clips manually, you’ll see all your takes in a single window. From there, it’s simple to compare and select the best words or phrases from each take. Then Soundtrack Pro automatically combines them into a seamless comp, complete with adjustable crossfades.
The Lift and Stamp tools let you quickly copy voice level, process effects or the equalisation print from one clip, and then apply them to another. It’s easier than ever to make dialogue from different sources sound like it was recorded in the same place at the same time. You can even save the properties you lifted and use them as a preset for future edits.
Design the perfect sound.
Find it, tweak it, spot it.
Get just the sound you want with more than 50 stereo and surround effect plug-ins — including Space Designer, Delay Designer and Match EQ. And get inspired by the Soundtrack Pro library, which includes more than 6000 royalty-free Foley sound effects and music beds, with over 1000 in surround. You can also extend your collection with Audio Units plug-ins and third-party music and effects libraries.
Once you have the sound you want, you can easily spot it to picture. Updates in Soundtrack Pro 3 let you spot to playhead location or timecode value by shifting clips across the Timeline. And an innovative three-up display shows you frames for a clip’s start, sync and end points, so you can scrub back and forth to identify exactly where to position your sound effect.
Professional surround mixes.
Everything you need for natural surround sound.
Save time by building your final mix right in Soundtrack Pro, with discrete 5.1 mixing, bussing and routing. An innovative surround panner dynamically represents the location of sounds as you make adjustments. You can work with surround-capable compressors, EQs, reverb and modulation plug-ins, and also adapt any mono or stereo effect for surround.
Need to deliver your project in both stereo and surround? No problem. Just create the surround mix, and Soundtrack Pro will generate the surround-to-stereo mixdown using Dolby guidelines.
Compatibility.
Work seamlessly with other apps.
Soundtrack Pro is completely integrated with Logic Pro. Bring an individual file into the File Editor to repair, restore or fine-tune it. When you save the file in Soundtrack Pro, it will automatically update your Logic Pro project. You can also score a project in Logic Pro, then send the music to Soundtrack Pro to add it to the full mix.
It’s easy to share files with Final Cut Studio, too. Send a clip to the File Editor or an entire sequence to the multitrack Timeline with a single click, then send your final mix back in stereo, surround or multitrack stems.
With support for AAF and OMF files, you’re free to move projects to and from other industry-standard applications.
You have your pick of hardware.
Record or output audio using any I/O device that works with Mac OS X Core Audio. Connect an Apogee Ensemble or Duet, and you can use the control panel in Soundtrack Pro to remotely adjust the hardware.
You also have support for any surface that uses the Mackie Control or Logic Control protocols. And new support for the EuCon protocol lets you connect any Euphonix control surface, from the fully equipped Pro Series consoles to the portable Artist Series.
