I just discovered that FMJ-Soft (http://www.fmjsoft.com/) has released the new version of the great sample/soundbank editor Awave Studio. Now it's at version 9.1
And for me, more importantly it seems the price has been reduced to
Awave Studio v9.1 - What's New
- Improved the graphical look of the program menus.
- Added a “Convert Bank MSB to Bank MSB + LSB 0 messages” function to the “MIDI Processing wizard”. This allows you to convert songs authored with only LSB bank select messages into the MSB + LSB select (some synths require both to be present!).
- Added a “Trim from start until first note-on event” option to the “Trim start and/or length” function in the “MIDI Processing Wizard”.
- Added an “Auto extend region key ranges” function both to the "Instrument Processing Wizard” and as a single-button click in the "Drum kit" editor. This extends existing regions to fill any gaps between regions.
- Added a “Set waveform names from the file names” function to the “Audio Processing Wizard”.
- Added a “Set 'In file save as' parameter” function to the “Audio Processing Wizard” allowing you to select multiple waves, then set this parameter for all of them (used when saving mixed format DLS files).
- The “Convert to mono” function in the “Audio Processing Wizard” now has a new option “Only convert if left & right chs are identical”. This allows you to quickly detect and convert to mono those stereo recordings that were really recorded from mono sources.
- You can now also create MP3 files with 8000, 11025 or 12000 Hz sample rate (previous versions used 16000 Hz as a minimum sample rate). This requires v3.94 or later of LAME_Enc.dll.
- Added an “Engineer” text info type for waveforms (currently only used by WAV and DLS file formats).
- Added a “Slow device” option to the MIDI SDS transmit dialog. Checking this might help with problematic synths...
- When you select something in the waveforms editor, it now displays not only the length in time, but also the length in samples as well as the starting and end sample locations of the selection.
- There’s now a “Find!” button on loop edit page - for launching the “Auto loop finder”.
- When enabling articulation on layer or region level, and articulation is already enabled on a higher level, then it is now initialized with the values from the higher level (rather than with default values).
- There’s now two play buttons in the waveform editor page - one plays the whole waveform, the other plays the current selection, or if nothing selected, it plays the loop, or if no loop set, the whole waveform.
- The last zoom-level in the loop editor is now remembered.
- Added .FLAC format read and write support. This format provides good loss-less audio compression. For more info (including player plug-ins), see http://flac.sourceforge.net/. To use this you need to download the free libFLAC.dll add-on from our web site and copy it to the directory where you installed the program.
- Added support for melodies reading newer “type 2” SMAF files (used by mobile phones based on Yamaha MA-3 and MA-5 chip sets).
- Added support for writing Akai MPC-2000XL style programs with attached .WAV files.
- Added support for Olympus DSS Player Pro and DSS Player Pro in addition to the older “v3.x” for DSS decoding.
- Added support for reading G.726 sub-format .WAV files.
- It can now decode the same sub-formats from .AVI files as from .WAV files.
- Added support for a newer type of MPEG system layer program streams.
- Fixed bug with incorrect note lengths when reading Nokia RTTTL format ring tones.
- A number of bug-fixes.
This is a feature I have been looking for in so many batch processing applications. Finally its there. Great!