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 | BIAS SoundSoap 2 ( Windows / Macintosh ) |
 | "An interesting tool." | 2007-06-02 |
I saw the demo of the program and thought, "That's exactly what I need!". I have been working on the post side of a movie Quest for the Golden Rod for over a year now (...) and due to the actors spreading to the four winds I'm stuck with the audio I got from my Sennheiser MKE-300. Which isn't bad, but not great eithor. I was forced to use it both in doors and outside having little "problems" like airplans, TOO LOUD of a river bank and of course the ever famous electronic hum (fridges). So I crossed my fingers and dropped $90 on this tool, plugged it into Adobe Premeir Pro 2.0 and was amazed that it was VERY simular to the results one would expect from a standard Noise Gate feature. Then I watched the online tutorials and learned the magical way of "learn sound" and that helped. I mean it was kind of remarkable it would remove very specific frequences and would behind only the voice (if you desired it). But here in lies it's flaw. DISTORTION. The more noise removal the quiter the audio gets and the more "canny" (that's how I put it) the voice becomes. Still legable and clear, but very distorted. So if you are doing a documentary then A++ if you are doing a film let's hope the background audio you are trieing to remove isn't too bad. Works best against repetitive back ground noise like humming. Very little distortion there.
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 | I Can Play Piano System |
 | "A general reply to the complaints combined with my review of this fine product" | 2007-01-15 |
Ummm... You have to HOLD THE POWER BUTTON DOWN when turning it on till it glows, takes about 2 seconds. Then to turn it off you HOLD IT DOWN till the screen gives you an add for the Wizard's website. Seriously, this product is awesome. I give it 5 stars.
I'm 25 years old and couldn't read music to save my life. After 2 weeks with this product I can play numerious songs and am on mode 3 with most of them (haven't kicked the color habbit yet, but I'm getting there). Wife (age 23) loves this thing too. Our son is only 5 months so he doesn't really "play" with it yet. He hits the keys in freestyle mode and giggles a lot. He also likes watching the musical notes go across the screen when we play it. The only complaint I have is the lack luster instructions the thing came with. But once you figure out the quirks with the system's setup (mode swtichs the temp buttons, the power button, ect.) the thing WORKS and is FUN. It's pretty much Gaitar Hero with 8bit graphics, a piano and the added bonus that you are actually LEARNING TO READ MUSIC.
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