audio editing on mac

elgato · Post by **elgato** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 7:58 pm

what does everyone recommend?

whineo · Post by **whineo** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 10:41 pm

Im using Audacity or the audio editor in Logic
Miss sounforge tho

Sharmaji · Post by **Sharmaji** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 10:58 pm

peak and logic.

fuagofire · Post by **fuagofire** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:13 pm

amadeus pro is good if your patient its only about 20 quid and has a great spectral analyzer. no real time though you have to edit then play

elgato · Post by **elgato** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 3:40 pm

Whineo wrote:Im using Audacity or the audio editor in Logic
Miss sounforge tho

innit i checked Audacity and it is weak in comparison, really slow, and the audio i exported (why not just save as?!) had weird silences in. hadn't really realised how efficient Soundforge is.. you don't know what you got til its gone eh ha

Peak seems to be the one then perhaps? that is the one people seem to rate mostly?

setspeed · Post by **setspeed** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 3:46 pm

i just came from cooledit and am having the same issues!

i've tried Peak and it is shite in comparison...

psyphon · Post by **psyphon** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 6:51 pm

I use Audacity and have no problems at all???

setspeed · Post by **setspeed** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 7:20 pm

i think it's a case of what you're used to, tbh.... cooledit/audition and soundforge (even tho i hate soundforge haha) both have really really basic, stripped down interfaces. so they might look a bit awkward to use, but with a little practise you can do exactly what you want in seconds. so then anything with an interface that doesn't work as fluidly just seems stupid....

John Locke · Post by **John Locke** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 8:40 pm

TeReKeTe wrote:peak and logic.

can sum1 explain 2me WHY i should b using anything other than logic? what am i missing out on?

setspeed · Post by **setspeed** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 12:26 am

Battle Gong wrote:
TeReKeTe wrote:peak and logic.
can sum1 explain 2me WHY i should b using anything other than logic? what am i missing out on?

the problem with logic's sample editor is that it is fiddly, time consuming and inefficient.

lets say you want to take a snare drum out of a track and bung it into an EXS. you have to load logic, start a new tune, load the entire tune into it (which logic converts into a wav and saves as a 60-odd MB file), zoom up/down then left/right, find the hit that you want, chop around it, go into that crummy sample editor, crop it finely, delete the rest of the track, bounce the sample, delete the 60MB of track that you don't need any more... and that's assuming you didn't want to put any effects on it.

now in audition on a pc, i could do all that (without putting effects on) in about 10 seconds. so yeah, you could probably do it in less than a minute or 2 on logic but when you've spent the last 10 or 15 years doing it the quick way it just really gets on yer nerves!

John Locke · Post by **John Locke** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 1:21 am

ah, okay. i c.

but as ive spent years doing it the slow way and it never bothered me til now i guess i'll stick wit it.

i was just worried u were all doing sumthing different 2 yr sounds that i hadnt even thought of

i never record in/import whole tracks anyway cos i usually sampling from vinyl rather than importing a readymade WAV or whatever, so I just grab the bit i need. not that time consuming.

thanks anyway

djshiva · Post by **djshiva** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 1:23 am

i have used soundforge for years but have really been enjoying the hell out of audacity lately.

but from what i know peak is the deal for mac. that's just hearsay from friends with macs tho...

chunkie · Post by **chunkie** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 1:50 pm

TeReKeTe wrote:peak and logic.

i'm still using Peak4 and its more than adequate

used to use soundforge and cant say ive been slowed down or hindered in any way

Sharmaji · Post by **Sharmaji** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 2:30 pm

likewise, still on peak4-- not using it for much more than sample editing, recording vinyl, and quick edits post-logic or post-ableton (cutting out the beginning silence from a bounce, doing fadeouts).

basically, since it's only a stereo editor, it's a much leaner--and thus, faster to work in--program for this stuff than logic is.

i've used waveburner a bit, which comes free w/ logic. does essntially the same thing as peak but you have much more control over everything. it's designed to be a last-step program for mastering (old-school mastering, in which you're laying out an album's worth of material, doing the crossfades, setting spacing between songs, and setting index points for CD's and buring to redbook standards), but can def. work for other stuff-- including the dreaded 32-to-24 bit reduction, which it appears no other program can do.

mission1 · Post by **mission1** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 1:45 am

hi,

i am using the AudioFinder Sample Tool on the Mac, it has a great beat slicing mangling feature.

http://www.icedaudio.com

it isn't a full on audio editor, but instead it is more useful for phreaking a beat.

COURT · Post by **COURT** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 5:38 am

Audacity, simple & affective.

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