[geeks] Sound editing software for OSX?

Andrew Weiss ajwdsp at cloud9.net
Thu Dec 12 00:02:22 CST 2002


and I can personally say 840's suck at running Linux as well... :-) 
S-L-O-W....and DHCP doesn't work right.

Now my 8100... it's a dream.

Andrew

On Tuesday, December 10, 2002, at 09:49  PM, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 07:35:44PM -0700, Dave Kimmel wrote:
>> On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
>>
>>> http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> Hmmm, it sticks out as a non-Mac program running on a Mac (there's my
>> minor quibble), but I did some playing around and it looks like it'll 
>> do
>> everything I want.
>>
>>> What exactly are you trying to do?  It is functional as a multitrack
>>> program, except it makes no attempt to calibrate for latency, so you
>>> have to adjust the start time of a track after you record it (not 
>>> really
>>> that hard to do).  However, it doesn't have a loop edit mode, loop
>>> sequencing, nor does it seem to have much for sample editing or 
>>> virtual
>>> synthesis.  Quibbles?  Yes.  I was just hoping to find a good 
>>> multitrack
>>> program that at least offered good capabilities for using sequenced
>>> loops.  And a nice sample editor would be nice if I had any virtual
>>> synthesis software running.
>>
>> I don't have any insane requirements, nor do I really have any 
>> specific
>> purpose in mind.  Everything that I want is pretty simple, or at 
>> least I
>> think it's pretty simple - cleaning up pops and crackles, removing
>> dead-air, splitting up a long recording, etc.  I'll need to get a 
>> proper
>> audio input eventually though, my iBook only has the built-in mic.
>
> All I have for input is a Live card, and some miscelaneous turtle beach
> card.  Nothing very good.  I can't really find any software for the
> 840av anymore, and it doesn't look like there is any good hardware
> supported by linux, at least not without using extremely alpha drivers.
>
> -- 
> Joshua D. Boyd
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