AUDIO INDUSTRY NEWS Grass Valley, CA, January 7, 2003
Unique Software for Audio Searching and Editing Available at FindSounds.com
Comparisonics Corporation has announced a packaged version of its ground-breaking sound search and retrieval software.
FindSounds Palette is an audio player, recorder, editor, database, search engine, and Web browser, all in a single software package. It is easy to use and well suited for anyone needing to search for, organize, and edit sound effects and musical instrument samples. Intended users include electronic musicians, sound designers, multimedia and Web developers, filmmakers, videographers, teachers, and students.
FindSounds Palette provides access to more than 1,000,000 sound effects and musical instrument samples on the Web and gives users the ability to organize and search audio files stored on their hard drive. Sounds can be searched using any combination of their attributes including file name, description, category, genre, source, copyright, format, file size, number of channels, resolution, sample rate, duration, key, and tempo. In addition, for any example sound, a Comparisonics “sounds-like” search can automatically find similar sounds on the Web or on the user’s hard drive.
FindSounds Palette utilizes the Comparisonics colored waveform display to represent the sounds retrieved by a search. This display helps users to “see” the sounds they are editing. Similar sounds are represented by similar colors, and changes in sound are indicated by changes in color.
The example below is a representation of the sounds made by a cat (orange), a fly (lavender), and a rooster (red). More examples can be seen at http://www.comparisonics.com/gallery.html.
Hollywood sound designers know well that useful and interesting sounds can be obtained by changing the playback speed of an audio recording. FindSounds Palette makes it easy to change speed, and is the first sound-retrieval system able to search the sounds of multiple speeds. By searching each audio file at 25 different speeds, a collection of 10,000 audio files becomes a searchable database of 250,000 sounds!
FindSounds Palette is available for Microsoft Windows XP, 2000, Me, 98, 95, and NT. A limited version FindSounds Palette 1000 that can handle up to 1,000 locally-indexed sounds costs $50 (US). The full FindSounds Palette 10000 supporting up to 10,000 local audio files costs $150 (US). More information about the product, including a free 15-day trial and special introductory Web-download pricing, is available at the FindSounds.com Web site.
Comparisonics Corporation is the world leader in sound-retrieval technology. FindSounds.com is the company’s Web search engine for sound effects and musical instrument samples. This award-winning search engine is like Google and AltaVista, but with a focus on sounds. Each month it processes more than 1,000,000 sound searches for more than 100,000 unique visitors.
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