Todd, Michael & James, Inc (TMJ) updates Song Surgeon to version 4, now with more features and format preservation.

For those not familiar with the software, Song Surgeon is a powerful tempo and pitch changing tool, ideal for musicians, producers, transcribers and anyone else who work with audio.

With Song Surgeon, you can load up a song and adjust the tempo or pitch independent of each other, allowing you to listen to the song in different tempos or in different keys. And it does all this while retaining the quality of the audio. Its benefit is not just limited to musicians, even- producers, translators, transcribers, dancers, DJs and churches can put its slow down and key change feature to good use.

Now with the updated Song Surgeon 4, you get even more features and an improved sound engine that makes pitch and tempo changes more convenient, accurate and efficient. Useful practice and audio manipulation tools were added to the software, including the ability to create customized practice lessons, multiple looping, speed training, alternative tunings, 31-band EQ, format preservation, batch file conversion, audio editing, AV downloading, customized loops and many more.

Song Surgeon's most common use is for slowing down music, and for pitch adjustments. The new format preservation feature helps a lot in this aspect because it preserves the characteristic and natural tonal qualities of you audio as you change the pitch and speed. It is called "anti-chipmunk", because it prevents your tracks from sounding too harsh or robotic.

The developer also improved the software's sound engine for improved distortion free performance. The format preservation feature and the new sound engine works together to make Song Surgeon a powerful tool ideal for everyone who deals with audio on a regular basis.

Speed Trainer is another cool new addition that makes the software a very efficient tool for practicing musicians. It lets you set a slow starting tempo and fast ending tempo to a loop, Song Surgeon will then gradually increase the tempo as the audio loops. This will greatly help musicians and dancers improve technique and timing .

We highly recommend that you check out the fully functional 4-hour working Demo, to see what this software can do for you. You can also check out our detailed Review of Song Surgeon, it will give you a better look at what the software can do for musicians and producers.

For more information, and to purchase your copy, visit Song Surgeon. You will also find a number of helpful tutorial videos that will show you how to better utilize the software.