Sonicfire Pro 4 Released--Universal Binary Music Scoring Application

SmartSound Software announced that the latest update to its award-winning SmartSound Sonicfire Pro 4 software includes Universal Binary support on the Mac platform. Sonicfire Pro 4.1.1 runs natively on the powerful new Intel-based Macs to deliver the fastest music scoring solution available to Avid and Final Cut Pro video editors.

According to SmartSound, Sonicfire Pro 4 has received broad recognition for its new Mood Mapping feature which gives editors the unprecedented ability to customize professionally-composed music along a Timeline via a simple Mood Map. Every Multi-Layer music track from SmartSound is delivered with up to eight separate instrument tracks that can be individually controlled to precisely match the music to the mood of the production. This new feature adds to SmartSound's existing ability to cut and resize royalty-free music from its library of more than 1,800 tracks to any length with a perfect musical beginning, middle and ending.

Additional features available in the update include increased audio/video synchronization, the ability to sort between Single-Track and Multi-Layer tracks in the Maestro, and other minor bug fixes. A free 30-day trial of Sonicfire Pro 4 with Mood Mapping is now available for the Mac. [Bill Fox]