In today's reader mail & rumor report we note the release of Babya Photo Workshop XL 12 and Babya Discoverer Extreme, a new Babya podcast, plus cover the exciting news about Babya Logic 2 and Babya applications now on Macs.
Babya Podcast:
Now you can get a impressive take on the latest Babya news and developments from the Babya team, with our new podcast-Babya Software News.
Babya Software News features the Babya team discuses, providing advice and tips and previews, on or about Babya software.
This means you get useful info from the people who develop the Babya software.
Today, there's brief intro to the podcast today.
You will also able to suscribe to Babya Software News from iTune Music Store's podcast directory
Upcoming episodes will look at Babya Logic 2, Babya & Macs and Babya System '06.
Go give it a listen-you may like to suscribe. It's hosted by Odeo where you can browse hundreds of podcasts (like from Adam Curry to interesting foreign language podcasts) to play on a iPod (or any others). There, you can create your own podcast too.
Here's how you can do it:
Add Babya Software News to iTunes manually (go to Advanced-Suscribe to Podcast),Juice and o ther podcast catchers by using this:
http://odeo.com/channel/105114/rss
Or http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=157692638
In Babya bView-select a folder you want the podcast to be in (eg. Web) or from the toolbar, click on the first icon (a drop-down list appears), choose New Folder-a window appears (type in Podcasts), click OK.
Right click on the new folder, and select New RSS-a window appears. In Name type Babya Software News , enter the URL (http://odeo.com/channel/105114/rss) in the URL textbox and click OK. That's all you need to do.
Babya Photo Workshop XL 12:
At the Babya Photo Software launch today (listen to it at:http://odeo.com/channel/105157/view), as rumored, Babya Photo Workshop Professional XL has just been released with 3D Text Studio, Babya Firestorm & Babya Effects FX Filter Factory.
New Features:
*Babya Filter Factory-wild and wacky effects generator
*Babya Firestorm-amazing pyrotechnics/fire image generator
*3D Text support
*Optimize GIF files easily with Babya GIF Studio
*Babya PhotoMasker
*Babya Particle Studio
*Babya Mandela Painter
*Quickly preview images with the new Babya File Browser, similar to
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Download:
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?23500000
Babya on Macs:
Babya today introduced the first Mac versions of Babya Photo Workshop & E-Type which feature Core Image technologies.
The 2 new versions are Intel native, meaning that Babya Photo Workshop 11 & E-Type 3 run as fast as possible on the new Macs with Intel processors.
Both feature support for Mac-only technologies-Core Image, the Aqua UI and Quartz.
Babya Software Group's A.A. Fussy enthusiastly noted, "Now Mac users can use 2 popular Babya programs, that are twice as powerful compared to the Windows versions because the Mac versions are coded in Xcode, and are Intel ready. Take, Babya Photo Workshop for instance -you had to wait many minutes to see a effect in the Windows version,on the Mac, thanks to Core Image it's done in an instant."
Babya Software Group's Alvin Novick enthusiastly said, "We think that Intel native Babya Software was a amazing suprise-resulting in faster Babya applications, that you know & love."
Featuring:
Babya Photo Workshop Professional 11:
Core image for fast image effects
Beautiful and lively Aqua interface
Twice as fast as Babya Photo Workshop Professional 11 is on Windows
E-Type:
Native PDF export
More formatting options
Text-to speech
Common:
Works on Macs with Intel CPU's
Easier to install
Pricing and Availbility:
The Mac versions of Babya Photo Workshop & E-Type will start shipping in 1-2 weeks.
Babya Photo Workshop 11 for Windows users, will ship around the same time.
Babya Logic 2:
Babya Software Group today announced that the upcoming Babya Logic 2 will feature the powerful BASS audio library for amazing sound support and even easy iPod video export with video editing using the new Babya QuickTime Studio.
The next major version of Babya Logic-version 2 features a powerful new feature set and new effects-all using BASS.
Babya Logic 2 will include the same engine as last year's Babya bPlayer 2 uses.
Babya Software Group's A.A. Fussy said, "It's pretty exciting for me to announce this today -as for example, the net radio tuner provides crystal-clear audio even when you save it."
Babya's Product Manager for digital media, Alvin Novick commented,"You can use your favorite Sonique and WinAMP visulations with your music with a minimum of fuss. Or even load and test your WinAMP DSP effects with Babya DSP Studio-WinAMP. The BASS library opens up more audio formats to play and generate funky music with-like AAC and
A.A. added, "Babya Logic 2 comes with a wide, new range of effects called "bLive". It's all done in real-time with instantneous playback and effect processing-effects like Tempo Maestro for pitch shifting and Phasor for a peaking equalizer with a quirky and adjustable phaser effect. Plus, with the enhanced Babya Guitar Amp and Babya Wavettes, you can produce a wider range of sounds, whether short clips to a full song."
Of course, Babya Logic's MIDI engine is quite amazing-and the new BASS feature set makes both
New effects provide a new vista in audio:
Using BASS, Babya Logic becomes even more powerful.
All-new effects and plugins include a cool spectrum display-and a live version too, ASIO effects players with DSP and new export and recording options like saving MP3 music to WAV and easy audio recording.
EAX and 3D effects make previewing a whole lot more sonic in Babya Logic. Babya bRadio is included-with preset internet radio options that will excite and entertain all of the family.
Have a 5.1 speaker system-now with Babya Logic 2's speaker tester, you can test your speaker system with ease.
Even VST support is possible, as all the source code will be included with the new plugin pack.
You can save local copies of the streams (for personal use as long as you don't share it with others), unlike with iTunes.
Other new and enhanced features in Logic 2 include:
Babya Logic 2 comes with a fast audio extracter called Babya CD Audio Studio that is designed to work in conjuction with Babya WaveBurner.
Like with Babya Logic 1.4, Babya Logic 2 bundles Babya iGrab-the easy way to grab iPod music, without having to manually do it. This utility will let you rip either a single song, or the entire music collection of the iPod.
This utility will not hurt your iPod in anyway, nor modify its database files or music.
Babya iGrab has some limits also: it can only read MP3 encoded music, all other music will not be shown on the list ( eg. music purchased from the iTunes Music Store. It can only grab either one song, or the entire collection, not inbetween.
Babya iGrab will work with most iPods-including the latest fifth generation iPod and iPod nano.
Babya Software Group's product manager for digital media, Alvin Novick said about iGrab,"Babya iGrab is a fast and fuss-free application for easily managing your music on a iPod."
Babya Software Group's A.A. Fussy noted about iGrab as well, "Babya iGrab is a innovative application, allowing
Babya Logic 2's improved feature set lets you be more tuneful:
Babya Logic 2 also features improved MIDI composition options in Babya Logic Audio and 2 new and impressive looking audio spectrum viewers, a realtime audio recorder and for the first time, ASIO effects and a Mac-only AU host.
Now produce iPod movies with Babya Logic:
Completely new to Babya Logic, Babya QuickTime Studio is a powerful application which demonstrates how to use QuickTime 7's COM Control to display and manipulate movies, using a familiar
To run Babya QuickTime Studio, your system must meet the minimum requirements for QuickTime.
A Broadband Internet connection (DSL/Cable/LAN) is higly recommended as well.
If you don't have QuickTime already or you need to update it, download the
QuickTime+iTunes bundle from:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/standalone.html -for a standalone setup file, ideal for network or for installing on a system with a slow web speed (eg 56k).
This will install
Note for Mac users-you can run Babya QuickTime Studio on a Mac with a Intel Core CPU with Boot Camp.
Babya QuickTime Studio has the following capabilities:
Standard QuickTime 7 features available in Babya QuickTime Studio are:
- Movie playback with a movie controller container
- Open, Open from URL, Close
- Cut/Copy/Paste/Undo
- Display movie info. such as duration, track types, track formats, etc.
QuickTime 7 Pro features you can use in Babya QuickTime Studio are:
-Full Screen mode
- Export, Export with dialog
- Quicktime Event handling
- Fullscreen playback
Once you have a movie opened you can perform any of the various operations on the movie using the File and Export menus such as export to iPod , fullscreen etc.
Some of the operations utilize features or technologies that are usually found only in the QuickTime 7 Pro edition-like full-screen. Now with
Babya QuickTime Studio you can do this for free.
BASS enables the next-generation of previewing and generation of high-quality audio in Babya Logic-some of the features of BASS include:
Powerful and efficient (yet easy to use)-you can sample & stream (MP3, MP2, MP1, OGG, WAV, AIFF, custom generated, and more via add-ons), MOD music (XM, IT, S3M, MOD, MTM, UMX), MO3 music (MP3/OGG compressed MODs) music, & recording functions. All in a tiny DLL, under 100KB* in size.
On Windows, BASS requires DirectX 3 or above for output, and takes advantage of DirectSound and DirectSound3D hardware accelerated drivers, when available. On OSX, BASS uses CoreAudio for output, and OSX 10.3 or above is recommended. Both PowerPC and Intel Macs are supported.
Main features of the BASS engine are:
Samples
Support for WAV/AIFF/MP3/MP2/MP1/OGG and custom generated samples
*Sample streams
-Stream any sample data in 8/16/32 bit
File streams
MP3/MP2/MP1/OGG/WAV/AIFF file streaming
Internet file streaming
-Stream MP3/MP2/MP1/OGG/WAV/AIFF files (inc. Shoutcast, Icecast & Icecast2) from the internet (HTTP and FTP servers), with adjustable buffering-like in bRadio
Custom file streaming
-Stream MP3/MP2/MP1/OGG/WAV/AIFF data from anywhere using any delivery method
Multi-channel streaming
-Support for more than plain stereo, including multi-channel OGG/WAV/AIFF files
MOD music
-Uses the same engine as XMPlay (very accurate, fast, high quality reproduction), with full support for all effects, filters, stereo samples, DMO effects, etc...
MO3 music
MODs with MP3 or OGG compressed samples (vastly reduced file size with virtually identical sound quality), MO3s are created using the MO3 encoder
Multiple outputs
-Simultaneously use multiple soundcards
Recording
- Flexible recording system, with multiple device support and input selection, (WMA encoding & broadcasting via the add-on, and other formats via BASSenc)
Decode without playback
-Streams and musics can be outputted in any way you want (recoded, written to disk, streamed across a network, etc...)
Speaker assignment
-Assign streams and musics to specific speakers to take advantage of hardware capable of more than plain stereo (up to 4 separate stereo outputs with a 7.1 soundcard)
*High precision synchronization
*Synchronize events in your software to the MOD music and streams, synchronize playback of multiple channels together
*Custom DSP
*Apply any effects that you want, in any order you want
*DirectX 8 effects Windows only
*Chorus / compressor / distortion / echo / flanger / gargle / parametric eq / reverb, 2 implementation options each with its benefits (including mixing with DSP functions).
-Some of these effects you might be familar with-if you used Babya Audio Effects Studio
*32 bit floating-point decoding and processing
*Floating-point stream/music decoding, DSP, FX, and recording
*3D sound Windows only
*Play samples/streams/musics in any 3D position, with EAX support
*Flexible
*Small buffers for realtime performance, large buffers for stability, automatic and manual buffer updating
*Expandable-Underlying DirectSound object interfaces are accessible, add-on system for additional format support-like VST, dynamic plugin loading system
*Small
*BASS is less than 100KB*, so won't bloat your distribution
All of the new plugins will be part of Babya Logic 2 and also available own its own as Babya Plugin Pack 1.
Pricing and Availbility:
Babya Logic & Babya Logic Pro 2 will both be released in late July or August as free downloads for Windows XP & Windows Vista and also for Macs with Intel processor using Boot Camp.
Previous users of Babya Logic 2006 will be able to download a free update which will upgrade their copy to Babya Logic 2.0.
About Babya:
Babya Software Group is a award-winning developer of digital media software including Babya bSuite, bPicture and Babya Photo Workshop and Babya Logic.
Babya's software has won many awards over the past several years, including 5 stars (Babya bSuite, 2005).
That's it for today's reader mail & rumor report.
