Media Information For Immediate Release November 23 1998 BarbaBatch 2.5 Simplifies Audio Production for the Internet MacSourcery and AudioEase, developers of multimedia and professional digital audio software jointly released version 2.5 of their BarbaBatch Batch audio processor today. Designed for fast high quality conversions of digital audio for use in internet, multimedia and professional production, BarbaBatch 2.5 now provides users with greater automation and sound processing flexibility. Described by MacWorld Magazine as, 'the best conversion tool money can buy', BarbaBatch has been upgraded to allow conversion of just selected segments of an audio file. Segment conversion allows users to convert custom 'snippets' of audio directly into internet savvy formats. Clips from an entire CD collection can be put on the internet with one click of the mouse. Other new features include the ability seperately control the fade-in and fade-out of converted files as well as the conversion from and to of all flavours of QuickTime audio. Conversion to Macromedia Director compatible AIFC IMA files is also new BarbaBatch 2.5. BarbaBatch 2.5 also adds full support for the professional version of QuickTime 3's Qdesign format. MacSourcery President John Pattenden says the new features in BarbaBatch 2.5 are in response to customer requests for greater automation and custom editing features. " The ability to convert just a snippet of a file makes BarbaBatch ideal for creating internet ready sample music tracks for artists and online CD retailers" "BarbaBatch 2.5's support for Qdesign Pro makes Qdesign conversions twice as fast and allows fine tuning of key parameters to aid in the creation of CD quality audio for use on the NET," Mr Pattenden said. BarbaBatch 2.5 can process audio content stored in virtually any format including CD audio, QuickTime, Real Audio, MPEG, Sound Designer, AIFF, AIFCI MA,WAVE, NeXT/SUN and VOX The QDesign encoder can compress audio files to 1/100th of their original size while maintaining the quality and integrity of the original audio file. The Professional Edition compresses files twice as quickly as the Basic Edition and allows users to improve the character of a sound file. BarbaBatch has won support from professional users and reviewers who have valued its user-friendliness and comprehensive features. Electronic Musician Magazine said BarbaBatch is "Quick and East to use, it produces great sounding output, and it's the most efficient batch-processor" Users can change the file type, sample rate, bit depth, and number of channels in one pass; add fade-in and fade-out up to five seconds long; remove extraneous low level sounds through gating; normalize a file; and employ peak-limiting to optimise sound quality. QuickTime Movie playback is now supported in three places: batch play, add files, and input dialogs . Conversion setting "recipes" can be saved and reused and multiple conversions can be processed in one batch. Detailed log files are also generated for reliable unattended conversions A demo version of BarbaBatch 2.5 is available from MacSourcery at http://www.macsourcery.com. BarbaBatch 2.5 is priced at $395 upgrades from version 2.4 and higher are free. Upgrades from earlier versions are $50. Founded in 1992, MacSourcery produces and distributes high quality tools for web and multimedia professionals. MacSourcery has customers in more than 30 countries and provides products to Fortune 500 companies including: Walt Disney, Sony, Columbia Pictures,Levi's and PepsiCo. Founded in 1992 Audio Ease is the developer of award winning solutions for software based sound processing.