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Introduction |
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Active Sound Editor is an ActiveX custom control developed by MultiMedia Soft that makes it easy to add sound editing capabilities to applications written with the most widely-used development environments that accept ActiveX controls; thanks to the integration with DirectShow codecs and with the BASS library, both allowing decoding capabilities for the most common audio formats such as MP3, WAV, Ogg Vorbis and many others, Active Sound Editor allows creating powerful audio editing applications.
Many tutorials are available to help you beginning your developments with this powerful control.
Brief summary of available features:
Sound composition through the embedded TracksBoard
| • | Loading from a file, from a memory buffer or from the system Clipboard the most diffused audio formats: |
- AAC and AAC+ |
- MIDI |
- PCM RAW format |
- AC3 |
- MOD Music |
- PVF |
- AIFF |
- Monkey's Audio (APE) |
- Speex |
- ALAC |
- MP3, MP2, MP1 |
- SVX |
- AU |
- MP4 |
- VOC |
- CAF (1) |
- Musepack |
- W64 |
- CD tracks |
- NIST |
- WAV (2) |
- FLAC |
- OGG Vorbis |
- WavPack |
- IRCAM |
- OPUS |
- WMA and WMV (3) |
- M4A |
- PAF |
(1) Support for PCM 8/16/24/32 bits, PCM 32 bits floating point, G711 U-LAW, G711 A-LAW
(2) Support for uncompressed PCM and compressed formats whose ACM codec is installed inside the system
(3) Requires the availability of Windows Media Player modules on the target PC
| • | Loading sound from a specific channel of a stereo or multichannel audio file. |
| • | Loading sound file, in one of the supported formats, directly from a ZIP file with support for AES encryption. |
| • | Loading a sound previously recorded by our Active Sound Recorder component. |
| • | Possibility to load a new sound in "Append mode", "Insert mode", "Mix mode" or "Overwrite mode". |
| • | Possibility to load a specific range of a sound file. |
| • | Through integration with our Audio DJ Studio for .NET component, possibility to load the audio track of video clips. |
| • | Extraction of the audio track of a video clip with possibility to store it into an output audio file of a chosen format. |
| • | "Append automation", allowing to append several files in one single shot. |
| • | "Mixing automation", allowing to mix several files or contents of other instances of the control in one single shot. |
| • | Loading raw audio data from an external source |
| • | Edit loaded sound with cut, insert and mixing capabilities. |
| • | A background sound can be applied to the current editing session, also in loop mode. |
| • | Insert or remove portions of silence. |
| • | Create and apply equalizer bands. |
| • | Volume modifications: flat volume, sliding volume and volume automation with possibility to design the volume curve. |
| • | DirectX Media Object (DMO) effects. |
| • | Custom DSP effects: code of DSP effects can be internal to the container application's code or inside external DLLs. |
| • | Virtual Studio Technology (VST) effects. |
| • | Change Tempo, Playback rate and Pitch |
| • | Filter for hiss noise removal. |
| • | Filter for clicks and pops removal. |
| • | Filter for volume level normalization. |
| • | Filter for DC Offset removal. |
| • | Filter for vocal remove. |
| • | Remapping and mixing of audio channels. |
| • | Special effects with multichannel support: Chorus, Compressor, Distortion, Echo, AutoWah, Phaser, Freeverb (reverb). |
| • | Play the loaded and edited sound or any portion of the same: if you should need more sophisticated playback features, like visual feedbacks during playback, consider using this component in conjunction with our Active DJ Studio component. |
| • | Sound card output choice. |
| • | Support for DirectSound and WASAPI drivers |
| • | Exporting of the edited sound into an audio file in the most diffused audio formats: |
- AAC (4) |
- MP2 (5) |
- PVF |
- AAC+ (9) |
- MP3 (6) |
- RAW format |
- AIFF |
- MP4 (4) |
- SVX |
- AU |
- NIST |
- VOC |
- CAF (1) |
- OGG Vorbis (7) |
- W64 |
- FLAC |
- OPUS (8) |
- WAV (2) |
- IRCAM |
- PAF |
- WMA (3) |
(1) Support for PCM 8/16/24/32 bits, PCM 32 bits floating point, G711 U-LAW, G711 A-LAW
(2) Support for uncompressed PCM and compressed formats whose ACM codec is installed inside the system
(3) Requires the availability of Windows Media Player modules on the target PC
(4) Requires the availability of the external Faac.exe encoder
(5) Requires the availability of the external TwoLame.exe encoder
(6) Requires the availability of the external Lame.exe encoder
(7) Requires the availability of the external OggEnc.exe encoder
(8) Requires the availability of the external OpusEnc.exe encoder
(9) Requires the availability of the external FdkAac.exe encoder
| • | Joining of two mono files in one single output stereo file. |
| • | Splitting and exporting of a stereo sound under editing into two separate destination mono files containing left and right channel respectively. |
| • | Conversion from any audio format listed inside the Audio loading section into any format listed inside the Audio export section with the possibility to: |
- Port eventual existing tags from the source format to the destination format.
- Apply volume level normalization
- Apply DC Offset removal
| • | "Conversion automation" allowing to convert several files from an audio format to another in one single shot with the same features as seen on the previous point. |
| • | Deep analysis at different resolutions of the loaded sound's waveform. |
| • | Enumeration of silent portions of sound. |
| • | Enumeration of audible tracks, separated by silent portions, within the loaded sound |
| • | Rich visualization capabilities of the waveform with possibility to perform range selection, zooming and panning: both waveform and spectral view are supported. |
| • | Volume curve designer. |
| • | Waveform scroller allowing manual and automatic movement of the waveform. |
| • | Support for drawing the waveform representation inside a graphical device context (HDC). |
| • | Graphic bars for custom displaying of Vu-Meters and Progress bars. |
| • | Enhanced graphical spectrum analyzer. |
| • | Pure wave tones |
| • | Composite or monaural wave tones |
| • | Binaural and multi-channel wave tones |
| • | Sliding wave tones |
| • | Noises |
| • | DTMF tones |
| • | Text to speech strings |
Sound composition through the embedded TracksBoard
| • | Composing of new stereo or multi-channel (up to 7.1) sound files, with extensive visual editing through the embedded Tracksboard, by mixing together audio data taken from the following audio sources: |
- Regular sound files stored inside disk files
- The Microsoft Speech API which allows creating audio data from a string of text or from a text file through synthesized voices installed inside the system
| • | All sound items added to the composing session are layered, meaning that they can be added, removed and modified before composing the final mix and exporting the same into a destination file on disk using one between the supported audio formats |
| • | Editing of most common frames of the following tag formats (Unicode strings supported): |
- APE |
- FLAC |
- ID3V1 |
- LYRICS3 |
- ID3V2.2 |
- MP4 |
- ID3V2.3 |
- OGG Vorbis |
- ID3V2.4 |
| • | Editing of the following chunks in WAV files: |
- CART |
- DISP |
- BEXT |
- LIST INFO |
| • | Uploading of files and contents of the sound editing session into a FTP server. |
| • | Download facility allowing downloading remote files from FTP, HTTP and HTTPS servers into the local system |
| • | Support for ZIP format |
| • | Being an ActiveX control, it can be instanced inside HTML code also and used in order to edit sounds from the client browser directly. |
| • | Integration with our Active Sound Recorder and Active DJ Studio controls |
| • | From Windows XP up to the latest Windows version in both x86 and x64 flavours |
| • | From Windows Server 2003 up to the latest Windows Server version in both x86 and x64 flavours |
IMPORTANT NOTES:
For redistribution of the control with your application, we recommend taking a close look to the Files to be included with your application section.
