News

Photosounder 1.8.1 released
Jul. 6th, 2010

Changes since version 1.8 :

• New convolution/
  propagation
  blending modes
• New layer
  intensity knob
• New Fill to Left
  and Bottom,
  Horizontal/Vertical
  Normalisation and
  Horizontal/Vertical
  Curves operations
  to manipulate
  horizontal and
  vertical envelopes
• Various bug fixes
  and improvements
  (see changelog)

Photosounder 1.8 released
Jun. 1st, 2010

Changes since version 1.7.3 :

• New basic stereo
  support
• New layer system
• Interface made
  more responsive
• New move tool
• Changed WAV and
  AIFF output to
  32-bit float
• Toggleable loop
  playback
• Various bug fixes
  and improvements
  (see changelog)

Photosounder 1.8 announced,
pricing changes
May. 20th, 2010

See the announcement

Photosounder 1.7.3 released
Apr. 5th, 2010

Changes since version 1.7.2 :

• Mac menus added
• Chunks of sound in
  view get processed
  first
• New interface layout
  for lossless mode
• Faster image display
• Various bug fixes
  and improvements
  (see changelog)

Photosounder 1.7.2 released
Mar. 1st, 2010

Changes since version 1.7.1 :

• Speed improved by
  100% (Windows)
• Various bug fixes
  and improvements
  (see changelog)

New official forum
Feb. 24th, 2010

New official forum
hosted on KVR Audio
(link)

Photosounder 1.7.1 released
Feb. 17th, 2010

Changes since version 1.7 :

• Zoom
• Waveform display
  updates while
  loading sound
• Fixed/improved the
  non-gradient image
  display

Photosounder 1.7 released
Feb. 11th, 2010

Changes since version 1.6.6 :

• Menus added
• Online update
  checking added
• New image creation
• Various other fixes
  and improvements
  (see changelog)

Photosounder 1.6.6 released
Oct. 23th, 2009

Changes since version 1.6.5 :

• New "road roller"
  tool for smart
  erasure
• Faster (optimised)
  spray tools

Photosounder 1.6.5 released
Oct. 19th, 2009

Changes since version 1.6.4 :

• Harmonics modifier
  for spray tools
• Magnet modifier for
  spray tools

Photosounder 1.6.4 released
Oct. 5th, 2009

Changes since version 1.6.3 :

• Mask invert
• Improved spray tools
• Precision mouse
  cursor function
• Mouse cursor for tools
• Fixed lack of mouse
  position updating
  after sound loading
• Fixed block range to
  resynthesise after
  spray tools are used

Photosounder 1.6.3 released
Aug. 26th, 2009

Changes since version 1.6.2 :

• New configuration
  options that allow
  changing several
  default parameters
• Perfected calibration
  in analysis
• Mac display issues on
  window resize fixed
• Optimised the redraw
  of the frequency scale
• Fixed range of
  affected blocks for
  the rectangle tool

Photosounder 1.6.2 released
Aug. 17th, 2009

Changes since version 1.6.1 :

• Fixed a volume bug
  that would occur
  after saving a sound

Photosounder 1.6.1 released
Aug. 16th, 2009

Changes since version 1.6 :

• Uses new
  configuration file
  to set audio buffer
  size (used to fix
  stuttering issues)
• Doesn't crash as
  easily anymore when
  running low on memory

Photosounder is a one-of-a-kind image-sound editing program. It is unique in that it opens images and sounds indiscriminately, treats and processes them as images, and synthesizes them as sounds. Sounds, once turned into images, can be powerfully modified to achieve effects and results that couldn't be obtained in any other way, while images of all sorts reveal the infinite kinds of otherworldly sounds they contain. Ultimately, knowing how sounds look and how images sound, you'll be able to create images that sound like what you want to hear, or like what you couldn't imagine to hear.

Photosounder is a cutting edge spectral editing program, offering the best spectrogram editing and synthesis capabilities, making use of unique spectrograph, synthesis and filtering algorithms developed specifically to achieve the best results possible. Photosounder turns sound processing problems into image processing challenges, and brings the power and flexibility of familiar image processing tools to the creation and transformation of sounds. This groundbreaking approach is what allows us to push the boundary of what we thought was possible.

Photosounder is available for Windows (2000, XP, Server 2003/2008, Vista and Windows 7), Mac OS X 10.4+ Universal (Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard, on both PowerPC and Intel machines). It can also run on Linux using the latest development release of Wine. A demo version is available, with the ability to save the resulting sound to file disabled, and a short silence inserted every 12 seconds.

The full version is available for $59 (about €46, £38, C$61, AU$66 depending on the exchange rates) for a non-commercial license or $175 (€135, £113, C$181, AU$195 ) for a full-commercial license. More details on the Buy page.

The following is a non-exhaustive list of what has been found that can be done using Photosounder.

• Turning a sound upside down (bass sounds become treble and vice versa)
• Complex soundscapes using extreme time stretching
• Creating instruments graphically and arranging them into a beat
• Transmitting photographs through sound
• Performing operations between different sound files, such as subtracting an instrumental from a song to isolate vocals
• Isolating or removing an instrument from a complex sound
• New effects such as piano chorusification or time-pixelation of sound
• A new take on more classical sound effects such as sound reverb
• Highly quality and flexibility processing such as denoising
• Creating new sounds from photographs or fractal images
• Vocoding
• Synthesizing spectrograms created from other spectrographs, such as printed spectrograms of bird calls in books
• Pitch shifting, pitch interval stretching, sound rotation, time-frequency domain compression

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