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Sound Mill is a sound effects player, manager, and automation tool that can transform your wildest ideas into sound design that works. Typical applications include: theater and radio; drama clubs; in-store and public venues with music and announcements; amusement attractions such as haunted mansions or museum displays; mobile entertainers such as magicians and story tellers; sound scapes to accompany computer screen shows or presentations; or really any audio production or project. Create basic projects in minutes or use the flexible automation capabilities to time intricate sequences of simultaneous sounds down to the millisecond. Whether you are a sound designer (from expert professional to aspiring amateur), a business owner (large to small), a mobile entertainer or presenter needing a custom sound track, or an audiophile hobbyist, Sound Mill offers the simplicity and flexibility you need.

Key Operational Features:

Touch Screen Enabled - The Easy Player interface is fully touch screen enabled (Ultimate edition). And Basic edition users can transform the performance interface into a Touch Enabled interface in 60 seconds. (see screen shot )
Wireless Bluetooth Speakers supported - Fully tested with wireless Bluetooth speaker devices as well as wire connected speaker systems.
High performance - Takes advantage of multi-threading on multi-core CPU systems. Runs in 64-bit Mode on 64-bit Operating Systems.
System Integration or control by Smart Phone - Integrate with other automation apps (Windows or non-Windows based) or send commands from your smart phone.
Use with other audio programs - Use Sound Mill and other audio software (ex. WMP) simultaneously.
Automation Manager - Use the Automator to build and run automation Scripts to play sequences of sounds sequentially or at timed intervals.
Easy Player - The Easy Player facilitates operation by wireless remote control devices and touch screen. And provides a simple, intuitive player user interface (UI) for untrained operators.
Business Announcements - Easily automate the insertion of your business or organization Announcements (recorded messages) into music programming.
Eight(8) Band Equalizer - Equalizer enhances audio frequency bands to highlight voice or an instrument. Equalizer Band Center Frequencies are adjustable
DSP Effects - Equalize, Reverb, Volume Wave, Fuzz, Echo, and Pitch Shifter. Create as many customized DSP Effects as you want. Multiple Effects can be combined into DSP Chains for composite effect sound.
IPC (Inter-Process Communications) Integration - Send and receive automation commands from Sound Mill to Sound Mill (or Video Mill). Enables syncronized, large scale media applications across multiple computers. Provides split second timed automation of audio and video programming. The programs can reside on the same computer or separate computers on a wired or wireless network.
Trigger automation from a third party tool - You can kick-off automation from any third party tool that can execute Windows command line tools. (via free SendTo_UDP Tool based on IPC Comms above)
Control Over a Network - Via the separate Net Comms Tool , an untrained user (or kiosk user) can run basic operations of Sound Mill over a local computer network (wireless or wired). Net Comms also has an admin user interface.
Scheduler - Schedule automation Scripts to start at a given time of day for pre-show and intermission music and announcements.
Flexible date scheduling - Create schedules to run by date: daily, weekly by day of week, monthly by date, and limited to a date range and more.
Wireless Remote Control Devices - Control sound cues or music with a pocket remote device at distances up to 130 feet. Most standard presentation remotes are supported, costing a little as $20. (control from SoundList Editor or Easy Player window)
Audio Kiosk - Let customers or venue visitors interact with your sound design via a Kiosk. Visual design capabilities for creating the Kiosk are highly flexible.