AudioEase, based in The Netherlands, develops highly regarded professional audio software tools. Their flagship product is the convolution reverb - Altiverb 6. This tool produces reverb from real samples extracted from specific locations and environments. The interior acoustical characteristics of the Sydney Opera House and Concert Hall is a perfect example.

The site offers an abundance of interesting videos that document how a sampling session is planned and performed, as well as a crash course in capturing location acoustics. Altiverb 6 also supports proprietary sample integration.

BarbaBatch is a professional batch audio file converter that supports many file formats. I use this tool quite often, and I have to say that it is well deigned, user friendly in terms of customization, and most importantly - it yields quality results.

Enter Snapper … Without going into too much detail, this new application that is slated for future release has some of the coolest audio workflow productivity features that I have seen to date. Snapper is designed to function as an extension of the Mac OSX Finder. The concept of the application is to provide advanced audio file access, processing, and management directly form the Finder. In fact, it is capable of integrating with iTunes in the same manner. For example: you can edit files, export clips to your email client, send snippets to Pro Tools projects, and encode to MP3. I suggest that you check out this introductory video that documents what Snapper is capable of. I think you will be impressed.

The question is … when will Snapper hit the street? Hopefully soon.