Active Sound Studio 2.2

Active Sound Studio 2.2 provides dozens of output setting and features. ActiveX control developed by MultiMedia Soft that makes it easy adding sound playback capabilities to applications written with the most widely-used development environments that accept ActiveX controls such as Visual Studio and Visual Studio.NET.

This ActiveX control, originally developed for the games market, helps developers adding sound playback to games or applications using the most diffused sound formats like MP3, WAV and OGG Vorbis. The most diffused MOD formats are managed also and, if the Microsoft Windows Media Player components are installed on the target PC, this ActiveX control can also manage WMA files and the sound frames of ASF and WMV files.

This control can retrieve the main information about the loaded sound files and its capable of retrieving TAG information for MP3 files (ID3V1 and ID3V2), OGG Vorbis files and Shoutcast ICY and Metadata for Internet streams.

A set of dedicated methods allows creating, loading and using playlists and applying special effects (DMOs and EAX) over the playing sound. The latest version supports tempo, playback rate and pitch change of the playing song.

Major Features:

This "2-in-1" product suite, intended for the Professional and Enterprise developer, contains the following controls based upon ActiveX technology:

1. Active Sound Recorder:

• Adds sound recording, sound analysis and CD ripping to multimedia applications.
• Supports recording and encoding in several formats.
• Visual feedback is provided through embedded VU-Meter, Spectrum Analyser, Oscilloscope and Waveform display.
• The integrated Sound Activation System allows pausing a recording session automatically when no sound is being heard.
• Can obtain CDDB information about a CD album during a ripping session.
  

2. Active Sound Editor:

• Adds sounds editing and sound analysis capabilities to multimedia applications.
• It can perform various operations with audio data such as analyzing the sound's waveform at different resolutions with rich visualization capabilities like zooming and panning, filtering, applying audio effects like DMO, VST, Equalizer, Tempo change, custom DSP, sliding volume, volume automation.
• Supports encoding in several audio formats.
  

Enhancements: Added compatibility with Borland products

Requirements: Sound Card