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Monkey Tools announces Sound Grinder Pro 1.0. Building on the success of Sound Grinder, Sound Grinder Pro adds many advanced time-saving features for the industry professional. Features include waveform editing, playback preview, AU and VST plug-in batch-processing, FhG MP3, MP3 surround and LAME codec support, multi-channel editing, enhanced metadata processing, droplets, auto-regioning and more.



Snohomish, WA - Monkey Tools is pleased to announce Sound Grinder Pro. As the "big brother" to the popular batch-processor, Sound Grinder, Sound Grinder Pro adds many advanced features to simplify the tedious tasks that cost industry professionals significant amounts of time and money.

One of several features is Sound Grinder Pro's Waveform Editor. This new editor provides multi-channel editing, an enhanced overview for file navigation, auto-regioning, advanced actions, AU and VST plug-in processing all with a simple and yet powerful user-interface. Actions include Auto-Trim, Normalize, Auto-Gain, Change Sample Rate, Resample, Swap Channels and more. Add to that sample level editing and user-interface customization, and you have one of the most feature-complete editors on the market today.

Sound Grinder Pro also provides the ability to process your files with the FhG MP3 and MP3 Surround codec from Thomson/Fraunhofer and the popular LAME codec. Sound Grinder is unique in providing both MP3 codecs equipping the end user the ultimate flexibility in creating MP3 assets.

With todays digital music boom, metadata has become a vital part of music production. Sound Grinder Pro provides many metadata batch-processing features. Copy metadata from a single file to be applied to all files, move metadata from one metadata field to another, or simply change the metadata across multiple assets in a single edit.

"The core of any audio production is the processing of audio assets, and Sound Grinder Pro was designed to handle those daily tasks in a fast, efficient, and rock solid manner" explained Drayson Nowlan, Principal Manager at Monkey Tools, LLC. "From Droplets and Rapid Convert, to metadata batch-processing you will immediately realize the speed and efficiency this new product offers."

Requirements:
* 10.3.x or greater
* Quicktime 6.4 or greater.
* (Quicktime 6.5 is required for AMR Narrowband support)
* (Quicktime 6.5.1 is required for Apple Lossless support)
* 800 x 600 screen resolution

Pricing and Updates:
Sound Grinder Pro 1.0 is immediately available for purchase from our online store and costs $299 USD. A 15% discount is available to existing Sound Grinder customers who purchased Sound Grinder 2.5 on or after March 31st, 2007. Registered Sound Grinder users can obtain their upgrade pricing by clicking the "Upgrade" button at the launch of Sound Grinder Pro. A demo is also available for download on the Monkey Tools website providing a complete overview and these and other powerful features.

Company URL: http://www.monkey-tools.com
Product Link: http://www.monkey-tools.com/soundgrinderpro/
Download: http://www.monkey-tools.com/downloads/SoundGrinderPro1.0.zip
Purchase: http://store.eSellerate.net/monkeytools/webstore
Screenshots: http://www.monkey-tools.com/soundgrinderpro/sgpscreens.html
Sound Grinder Pro Icon: http://www.monkey-tools.com/images/logos/sgp.png


Since 2003, Monkey Tools has provided professionals and hobbyists alike with time saving software utilities for managing media assets. Monkey Tools, Sound Grinder and Rapid Convert are trademarks of Monkey Tools, LLC. Other products mentioned may be the trademarks of their respective owners.