Felt Tip updates Sound Studio to v4.5

Felt Tip has updated Sound Studio to version 4.5, a free update for customers who've bought version 4.

New features:

• Adds Snap to Zero Crossings.
• Adds Insert Markers in Gaps or at Gridlines.
• AppleScript support for editing audio file metadata (artist, album, etc.).

UI refinements:

• Improved visibility of marker, cue, and other lines in the UI.
• Audio Units menu will be organized by folder if there are more than 30 plug-ins available.
• Split By Markers automatically fills in the Number of Tracks field if it is left blank.
• Updated timer recording, with a visible indicator that a timer has been set.
• Adds Automatic levels-based recording with new, simplified UI.
• Last Filter is remembered across different documents.

Lion features:

• Full-screen support.
• Retina display ready.
• Multi-touch gestures: magnify (pinch and spread) trackpad gestures to control zoom.
• Resume: support for restoring windows when quitting and re-opening the app.

Audio engine upgrades:

• Audio processing updated to use newer APIs.
• Uses AudioQueue for playback and recording.

Bug fixes:

• Fixes a bug where saving in Apple Lossless would not save the metadata and markers.
• Fixes some AudioUnit loading issues.
• Fixes a bug with copy and paste.

Other improvements:

• Presets can now be imported by opening the .soundstudiopreset file with the app.
• Updated Preferences, with ability to set default sample rate and sample size settings.
• Updated Ogg Vorbis libraries (1.3.0 and 1.3.2 respectively).
• Removes in-app help. All help is now on the felttip.com web site.
• In preparation for App Sandboxing, the Scratch Disk is no longer a preference.

Requires Mac OS X 10.6.6 or higher.