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Music Editing
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There's plenty to choose from on the free/shareware front
Protools Free, available from the digidesign site is a good one, I used for a while before I upgraded to the LE version with it's own soundcard.
Do you want to record audio into you're mac ?
You'll need something like an iMic to do that, it's a USB device that provides an audio input you can choose in soundmanager.
Protools Free lets you do a lot more than simply record, it's a midi sequencer aswell. If it's just pure audio editing, there's Peak LE from bias, It's about £60 here in the UK. It's got a very simple interface and it doesn't require 192Mb to run effiently like protools does.
Check out the editors page on the Shareware Music Machine site, it's got a lot of freeware, shareware and demos of commercial stuff to try out and it's provided me with a lot of unique effects I use in my music.
Protools Free, available from the digidesign site is a good one, I used for a while before I upgraded to the LE version with it's own soundcard.
Do you want to record audio into you're mac ?
You'll need something like an iMic to do that, it's a USB device that provides an audio input you can choose in soundmanager.
Protools Free lets you do a lot more than simply record, it's a midi sequencer aswell. If it's just pure audio editing, there's Peak LE from bias, It's about £60 here in the UK. It's got a very simple interface and it doesn't require 192Mb to run effiently like protools does.
Check out the editors page on the Shareware Music Machine site, it's got a lot of freeware, shareware and demos of commercial stuff to try out and it's provided me with a lot of unique effects I use in my music.
For OSX, there is nothing, nothing at all
Many years ago Macromedia released SoundEdit 16. It hasn't been updated for a very long time, but it still kinda works with OS9 (some functions don't work). To date nobody has released a decent OSX compatible multi-track audio recorder/editor.
I remember almost a decade ago when for very little $$$ you could use say a Quadra 840av to master a CD. Not anymore...nope. There are about a bazillion 2 channel sound recorder/editors, many with very decent interfaces that work with OSX, but they don't do much good without multi-track capability. There are some multi-track sound apps, but they really, really suck big time.
You could use FinalCut Pro, but that's extreme overkill and $$$$$.
Ah, the good ole days of SoundEdit 16. I don't know why Apple didn't buy this when they purchased Final Cut from Macromedia. They bundle Peak with FinalCut, but Peak lacks much of the functionality that SoundEdit had.
I wish someone would take SoundEdit 16 and carbonize it. Keep it elegant, simple, and clean...perhaps add the new sound formats and newer inputs. Then create a non-destructive editor (again, simple and clean) and integrate the two into one package...hell, call it iStudio!
Many years ago Macromedia released SoundEdit 16. It hasn't been updated for a very long time, but it still kinda works with OS9 (some functions don't work). To date nobody has released a decent OSX compatible multi-track audio recorder/editor.
I remember almost a decade ago when for very little $$$ you could use say a Quadra 840av to master a CD. Not anymore...nope. There are about a bazillion 2 channel sound recorder/editors, many with very decent interfaces that work with OSX, but they don't do much good without multi-track capability. There are some multi-track sound apps, but they really, really suck big time.
You could use FinalCut Pro, but that's extreme overkill and $$$$$.
Ah, the good ole days of SoundEdit 16. I don't know why Apple didn't buy this when they purchased Final Cut from Macromedia. They bundle Peak with FinalCut, but Peak lacks much of the functionality that SoundEdit had.
I wish someone would take SoundEdit 16 and carbonize it. Keep it elegant, simple, and clean...perhaps add the new sound formats and newer inputs. Then create a non-destructive editor (again, simple and clean) and integrate the two into one package...hell, call it iStudio!
Well...
If you are only wanting to do simple editing and recording, I think that Sound Studio from Felt Tip software is great! http://www.felttip.com
I use it for a small classical music recital recording business, and it works very well. It even has some filters and effects. A nice, simple program. Oh yeah, it's OS X native also.
Gus
If you are only wanting to do simple editing and recording, I think that Sound Studio from Felt Tip software is great! http://www.felttip.com
I use it for a small classical music recital recording business, and it works very well. It even has some filters and effects. A nice, simple program. Oh yeah, it's OS X native also.
Gus
Re: Well...
It's well designed, simple and elegant, but with only 1 track of audio, it's not of much use. Unfortunately this holds it back from competing with 10+ year old software...or dare I say Windows software. They could easily charge 3-4 times what they now do if they added multiple tracks.
It's well designed, simple and elegant, but with only 1 track of audio, it's not of much use. Unfortunately this holds it back from competing with 10+ year old software...or dare I say Windows software. They could easily charge 3-4 times what they now do if they added multiple tracks.