Assistive A.I. empowers creatives to craft complete productions at the speed of thought
Los Angeles (July 13, 2021) — SoundOn today announces Audio Design Desk 1.7, the only tool built from the ground up for real-time creation of audio for video. The AI-assisted application for macOS makes producing finished sound more than ten times faster than any other workflow. Monotony that has plagued audio post and musicmaking is now a fluid and fun process thanks to Audio Design Desk, which is less like an audio editor and more like a musical instrument.
Musicians, composers, podcasters, vloggers, video and sound editors, and filmmakers no longer need to sift through endless folders and libraries to find the right sound. Instead, Audio Design Desk’s Sonic Intelligence™ curates a massive database of more than 30,000 royalty-free music beds, cues, drones, hits, transitions, rises, FX, Foley and more. An intuitive natural-language search yields a list of options focused on whatever the moment demands. Then, the user can add them to the timeline instantly. Audio Design Desk identifies and retains sync points to picture with uncanny accuracy.Audio Design Desk effortlessly integrates with today’s creative tools. The DAWSync feature syncs Audio Design Desk with DAWs, including Pro Tools, Nuendo, Logic Pro and Studio One. LoopDNA automatically recognizes content from providers like Splice and LoopCloud, making time-stretching, pitch-shifting, replacement and other operations immediate, and eliminating the hassle of jockeying between two windows. Audio Design Desk’s latest time and pitch algorithms are audiophile-grade, so making the clip fit the project will never produce unwanted artifacts.
Musicians and podcasters will love the new integrated audio features. Audio may be recorded directly into Audio Design Desk without the need for other software, then edited using all the finesse of a DAW: snap, quantize, trim, fade, crossfade, nudge, a great sounding metronome, and more functions are at the ready and intuitive to apply — though Audio Design Desk gets so much right the first time that users will hardly be doing any trimming or nudging. Audio mixing hotkeys make short work of levels and panning, and Audio Design Desk’s tight integration with Elgato Stream Deck controllers lets users positively fly at editing tasks.
Workflows between Audio Design Desk and NLEs such as Premiere and Final Cut Pro are seamless thanks to AAF and XML support. Import your cut, create sound in Audio Design Desk, export back to the NLE and keep working with all audio regions perfectly synced — or bounce and export a full mix. Bundled with full in-app Frame.io integration, Audio Design Desk enables editors and sound designers to collaborate with one another worldwide.
Of course, importing of user sound libraries is supported. Thanks to Intelligent Import, Audio Design Desk will even extrapolate metadata for files that lack it, letting users optionally edit it afterwards. Users’ sounds then become searchable by Audio Design Desk’s advanced AI right alongside its native offerings.
Since its debut in May 2020, Audio Design Desk has garnered an impressive number of accolades in both the pro audio and tech universes, including a Mix magazine Top 20 Products of the Year listing, a Macworld Editors’ Choice award, a Timmy Award for Best Tech Startup in Los Angeles, recognition as a SXSW 2020 Innovator, and Best in Show at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention. Testimonials include Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Matthew Cooke, who says, “This tool gives people like me so much power, it almost shouldn’t exist!” Jamie Hardt, sound editor on Spider-Man, Zero Dark Thirty, Insidious, and It adds, “This is the tool I’ve been looking for my entire career. It makes the pain and chore of sound editing disappear.”
“People need sound for their projects, whether they’re feature films, TV shows, YouTube videos, TikToks, or podcasts,” notes SoundOn founder Gabriel Cowan. “The rise of social audio has generated dozens of royalty-free audio companies, but you need to learn their platforms, download their stuff, import it, place it, sync it, nudge it, and do it all over again if it’s not a good fit. SoundOn’s Audio Design Desk puts everything under one roof in an interface that is quicker and more fun to use than anything else. It is truly sound at the speed of thought."
Pricing and Availability
Audio Design Desk is available now at three product tiers: Produce at $15 per month, Professional at $30 per month, and Perpetual for a one-time purchase price of $399. To learn more about each tier and download a free 30-day trial, click HERE.
