SoundEdit

SoundEdit is the first digital sound editing application for the Macintosh, originally written by Steve Capps.

Early development
After completing work on the Finder for the first Macintosh, Capps took a leave of absence in 1985 to live in, where he independently worked on audio software for the Mac. SoundEdit was initially included with sound digitizer kits being sold by the Berkeley Macintosh Users Group. Farallon Computing acquired the distribution rights in 1987 and briefly considered renaming it to "SoundTrack".

Commercial releases
SoundEdit was commercially packaged by Farallon as part of the MacRecorder Sound System, which debuted in January 1988 at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco. SoundEdit was acquired by MacroMind-Paracomp in November 1991, where it evolved into SoundEdit Pro, which added support for 16-bit sound. The successor company, Macromedia, began shipping SoundEdit 16 on July 5, 1994.

Discontinuation
The final release of SoundEdit 16 was version 2.0.7. Macromedia discontinued sales on December 1, 2004. Technical support ended on June 1, 2005. It could be used until Mac OS X 10.4.11 under the Classic environment.