SndSampler is an easy-to-use audio recording and editing application for the Macintosh which enables you to record and edit digital audio. Digitize your old LPs and cassette tapes with SndSampler and save them as AIFF files for burning on CDs, archive them using a lossless compression scheme like FLAC or Apple Lossless, or convert them to MP3s and put them on your iPod. You can record sound through your Mac's built-in audio device or via an external recording device like the iMic. Once recorded, you can edit and modify your digitized audio in myriad different ways: amplify, fade in or out, pan, mix, declick, apply special effects like echo and Time Warp, or resample to different sample rate.

SndSampler - Macintosh Audio Recording and EditingYou can also open all kinds of different audio files that you download from the Internet or get from friends—WAVE, AIFF, MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless, FLAC, System 7 sounds, sound clippings—edit them, and then save your changes in the same file format or in a new file format. As an editor SndSampler provides all the standard editing features: cut, copy, paste, insert, mix, amplify, pan, and resampling, as well as more unusual editing features that are not found on many audio editors such as pitch bend, dynamic pan, channel swapping, QuickTime movie editing, and most uniquely of all, superimposition of different sound waveforms on top of one another.

SndSampler also supports audio with more than two channels—up to 32 channels, in fact. Each channel can be manipulated independently of the others. This is accomplished through channel activation. When you apply some sort of transformation to an open sound, it is a general rule that only the active channels will be affected. You activate and deactivate a given channel using the checkbox in the lower left of the Zoom Window. Or you can use a menu command, or you can use a really cool shortcut—option-click on the channel in the waveform display and its activation state will flip. When a channel is inactive it is drawn in gray. Don't stay stuck in the stereo past—unleash the power of multi-channel audio with SndSampler!

SndSampler is a powerful digital audio editor for the Mac which is easy to learn and use. SndSampler enables you to open audio files such as MP3s, edit them, and then save your changes. You can also make new recordings, edit them, and save them to disk in a variety of file formats. SndSampler's standard features include:

Support for 8, 16, 24, and 32-bit integer samples, as well as 32 and 64-bit floating point samples

Support for sample rates of 96 kHz, 192 kHz, and higher

Support for multi-channel sound up to 32 channels, even on Macs with only two-channel (stereo) output

Standard editing features: Cut, Copy, Paste, Mix

Independent editing of each channel

Text-entry option for most editing functions, allowing sample-accurate precision

Unlimited undo

Recording of audio data directly to RAM (for flawless recordings even in the virtual-memory environment of OS X) or to a huge 64PB (that's right, petabyte) file on your hard drive

Support for dozens of file formats such as AIFF, CAF, MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless, FLAC, Sun, NeXT, WAVE, Sound Designer II, QuickTime movies, raw audio, ASCII/Unicode text, split stereo, more

MP3 encoding with either LAME or iTunes as you prefer

LEQ (Long-Term Equivalent Level) function for comparing and adjusting sound loudness

Jukebox mode for playing thousands of audio files in succession (when you drop them on the application's icon and hold down the option key)

Memo mode for the easy recording of audio memos

In conjunction with the helper application Audiomaton (separate registration required) can process thousands of audio files in "batch mode"

Synching of sounds to QuickTime movies via an easy-to-use Movie Editor

Support for any V2 Audio Unit effect, including offline effects

Built-in FX: Echo; Delay; Eight varieties of Reverb; Chorus; a highly user-customizable Flanger; Phaser; Pitch Bend; Nine-band Equalizer; Dynamic Pan; Dynamic Fade; Tremolo; Wah-Wah; Distortion; Butterworth, Chebyshev, Notch, and FIR filters; etc.

Runs natively on any version of Mac OS X

Mac Classic system requirements: 8.5 or later, Sound Manager 3.2 or later

There are a number of audio editors available for the Mac, but not many of them offer as many features as SndSampler does for the price. Other editors are not as easy to use as SndSampler, either. SndSampler is an easy-to-use digital audio editor for the Mac. It enables you to record and edit digital audio on your Mac. When you're looking to do some audio editing on your Macintosh, look to SndSampler.

SndSampler is an easy-to-use yet powerful audio editor for the Macintosh.