Adobe unveils Flex Builder 2 for Mac beta and Soundbooth beta

There are a few new things from Adobe Labs this week at the Adobe MAX show in Las Vegas. Yesterday they announced Flex Builder 2 for Macintosh which "allows developers to productively build and test Flex 2 applications on the Macintosh platform using either the PowerPC or Intel chip." I've never coded in Flex and honestly wouldn't even know it if I saw it, but if it's your area of expertise, this sounds like it might be a Good Thing™.

Today they are touting Soundbooth which is "a brand new application built in the spirit of Sound Edit 16 and Cool Edit that provides the tools video editors, designers, and others who do not specialize in audio need to accomplish their everyday work." Soundbooth is designed to compliment your existing workflows in Premiere Pro, After Effects, Flash and other creative tools. So far it sounds very Garageband-ish but I'm having trouble downloading it right now to check it out.

Flex Builder 2 for Macintosh will be available for purchase in early 2007 and Soundbooth is shotting for the middle of 2007.

Here's the catch with Soundbooth - it's Intel-only (Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later) and won't run on PowerPC. C'mon Adobe... why is this Universal Binary thing so hard for you? Also, Adobe says that "due to licensing restrictions the beta does not support all of the formats that the final release will, including MP3, MPEG-2, H.264, and FLV."

If you happen to be in Vegas today, stop by The Venetian Hotel to check these and other Adobe products out in person.

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Source: http://labs.adobe.com/

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Chris

To #6, Kaspar...

Have you not seen Protools M-Powered? It's a flavour of Protools specifically for use with M-Audio hardware. You can buy a used $100 M-Audio card (see the hardware compatibility docs first), and Protools M-Powered 7 is only around $240 USD. It's completely compatible with older version of Protools M-Powered as well as Protools LE sessions.

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October 27 2006 at 10:06 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

ChillyWilly

Adobe really needs to fully support UB and stop this "one or the other" development lameness.

October 26 2006 at 6:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Matt

Damn you Adobe!! I want a Mac version of Audition!! I'm tired of rebooting into XP! I'll buy the damn thing again if you'll only make the Mac version!!

..too poor for Pro-Tools, garage band/logic express don't cut it.. you're just TEASING me with Soundbooth...

October 26 2006 at 3:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Robert

I got a "Universal Bonary" application the last time my girlfriend came over. Maybe Adobe needs some good old-fashioned lovin'.

October 26 2006 at 3:06 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

nate

Adobe can't even release a "brand new application" as a true universal binary. What hope do we have for Photoshop (et al)?

October 26 2006 at 2:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jules Stoop

The download link for Soundbooth is dead (at least from Europe it is) and has been dead all day.

October 26 2006 at 2:30 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

V. Mardian

Did you even read the Soundbooth home page? It doesn't sound one bit like Garageband.

October 26 2006 at 1:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

NavStar

I don't get why this is Intel only. IF Adobe programmed this in Xcode (which they would about have to), making a PPC-version is as simple as selecting a checkbox.

October 26 2006 at 1:05 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply