Audio Editing

Rollo Tamasi

Hi Maconites,
Any recommendations for a decent, and hopefully free, audio editing tool besides from Audacity. I really don't like Audacity on OS X. I find it very Windows looking and buggy.

There don't seem to be many free/OS options out there. I'm downloading Adobe Soundbooth CS3 at the moment. I have never heard of it before though. It's not too badly priced $199 either.

I'm just looking for some simple editing, noise reduction, two channel editing, fade in/outs, etc..

Ham'nd'egger

Rollo Tamasi wrote: »

Hi Maconites,
Any recommendations for a decent, and hopefully free, audio editing tool besides from Audacity. I really don't like Audacity on OS X. I find it very Windows looking and buggy.

There don't seem to be many free/OS options out there. I'm downloading Adobe Soundbooth CS3 at the moment. I have never heard of it before though. It's not too badly priced $199 either.

I'm just looking for some simple editing, noise reduction, two channel editing, fade in/outs, etc..

Pro Tools for Mac may do it but it ain't free

babypink

Amadeus Pro

$30 for a single user license.......schweeet

http://www.hairersoft.com/AmadeusPro/AmadeusPro.html

440Hz

Fission isn't bad as a free option. Depending on what you want to do, there are a good few options available to you. PT obviously is the pick of the bunch but it aint free. Logic etc all cost a fair buck. Pity you dont like Audacity, it really is the best free option available. No other free app offers anything close to the same functionality.

Gordon

Garageband?

muggyog

Many moons ago used Peak by Bias Inc. Dont know current price or quality. Pro tools is the best (Digidesign great company) , Amadeus best value.

Rollo Tamasi

I ended up using Audacity in the end.
I did the trick but it isn't as user friendly as I would want. I will probably end up using Audition on a PC or something for future recording requirements.

Thanks for all the other suggestions.

440Hz

Rollo Tamasi wrote: »

I will probably end up using Audition on a PC or something for future recording requirements.

Urgh!! The Mac+Sound Engineer within me screams inside! Yuck.

monkeyfudge

I love Audtion. I've been using it since the Cool Edit Pro days.

Wish they'd bring it out for mac as I have to boot camp into Vista so that I can run it on my Mac Book Pro.

ZENER

6 months ago I'd have loved to see CoolEdit Pro on the Mac - I even installed BootCamp to run just it - then came SoundTrack Pro 2. Goodbye Cooledit . . . and Bootcamp !!!

Soundtracks method of workflow is far superior imo - I love having the mixer and individual plugins per track and non destructive editing with editing in the track instead of opening a new window. It's not too much of a problem changing from one to the other either. Within a couple of hours I was hooked.

ZEN