Sorry, that's actually what I meant, I just worded my post really badly.
What I should have said is that DP going windows is big and if Sonar came to mac as well that would be even bigger.
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Sony's Sound Forge Audio Editing Software Coming to Mac?
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Sorry, that's actually what I meant, I just worded my post really badly.
What I should have said is that DP going windows is big and if Sonar came to mac as well that would be even bigger.
Audacity is a nice free quick and dirty app (reminds me of the good old Cool Edit Pro). But it's hardly comparable to Soundforge.
Yeah the main thing for me is the way you could drag select some audio, then click-drag it onto the Soundforge backdrop to create a new audio file in one move... you could then, say, apply a reverb, reverse and fade-in that new file, then drag it back over holding a modifier key and you'd be able to crossfade it visually back over the original file, all without saving or loading anything... Real sound manipulation possibilities not possible via a DAW without fiddly bouncing / reloading the bounced files.
What you need, my friend, is Steinberg's Wavelab - perhaps the most unknown and underrated mastering suite / audio editor out there.
Wavelab could split, tag, convert, and burn your vinyls on the way in! Yep! At input. You can set a silence threshold and it will automatically create a new file or CD track for each song. Or you can do it all with its insanely powerful batch editor. You can even use plugins offline in your batches - say, slap an L2 on those old, smaller-dynamic range records to make up the difference.
Throw in a multitrack mastering suite with full Redbook and data burning (with cover designer and full-on replication info sheets) and nothing touches it.
Ironically, Wavelab also just came to Mac with v7!
Sure, but it depends what you're using an audio software for. I used to use SF, now I use Audacity. I record audience live shows, not professional mastering.
Seems like the perfect fit, but for $500+ I'd be better off having them done professionally. Thanks so much for helping, I appreciate you taking the time.
Third of the nine videos is up and shows some quick shots of the software. I'm a SF user and for the most part it doesn't look like that to me although it could be a radical redesign.
Anyone get any hints from the new video which app it may be?
Looks like it has some sort of split pane view, plugin chaining (which looks a bit similar to SF), regions list and event list (which imply multitrack).
Looking at the Sonar website, no similarities jump out at me. Acid doesn't seem likely.
Any ideas based on the new videos?
Anyone get any hints from the new video which app it may be?
Looks like it has some sort of split pane view, plugin chaining (which looks a bit similar to SF), regions list and event list (which imply multitrack).
Looking at the Sonar website, no similarities jump out at me. Acid doesn't seem likely.
Any ideas based on the new videos?
Fourth video is up and it includes a couple almost full screen views of the app. Seeing the full thing, it definitely looks like sound forge. It also shows it including izotope, which SF has had for a while.
So for those of us who already have SF on PC, I wonder if they'll have a crossgrade price?
So for those of us who already have SF on PC, I wonder if they'll have a crossgrade price?