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GUY SMILEY wrote:seems to me that for the mac you either

a. shell out about £1000
b. use Audacity
c. settle for a product which lets you look at the waveform but not edit it.



I look forward to Wavelab for the mac when that arrives.

Try AmadeusPro:

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

I never understood why they didn't make a Mac version of Wavelab, it would make a killing. The fact that one guy is behind it all, could partially be it, given that the product has been around for the best part of 10 years and remains PC only.

It was just announced that they ARE making a mac version of Wavelab btw.

GUY SMILEY wrote:seems to me that for the mac you either

a. shell out about £1000
b. use Audacity
c. settle for a product which lets you look at the waveform but not edit it.



I look forward to Wavelab for the mac when that arrives.

I guess you missed page 1, or haven't heard of (the very affordable) audiofile engineering's aptly named Wave Editor http://www.audiofile-engineering.com/waveeditor/

I likes it.

It was just announced that they ARE making a mac version of Wavelab btw

This would be awesome for the Mac community. Definately the best audio editor around bar none for any platform and I say that as a pretty die hard SOundforge user (which is also excellent).

what the hell is wrong with Audacity?

Android Bishop wrote:what the hell is wrong with Audacity?

nothing. that was my point

b0unce wrote:

GUY SMILEY wrote:seems to me that for the mac you either

a. shell out about £1000
b. use Audacity
c. settle for a product which lets you look at the waveform but not edit it.



I look forward to Wavelab for the mac when that arrives.

I guess you missed page 1, or haven't heard of (the very affordable) audiofile engineering's aptly named Wave Editor http://www.audiofile-engineering.com/waveeditor/

I likes it.

Wave editor crashed twice in first five minutes of using demo. not stable on my mac book pro.

locojohn wrote:

GUY SMILEY wrote:seems to me that for the mac you either

a. shell out about £1000
b. use Audacity
c. settle for a product which lets you look at the waveform but not edit it.



I look forward to Wavelab for the mac when that arrives.

Try AmadeusPro:

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

Yeah I tried that. No sample level editing though ?
I want to be able to 'draw' on the waveform - that (to me) is the fundamental point of a wave editor

GUY SMILEY wrote:Wave editor crashed twice in first five minutes of using demo. not stable on my mac book pro.

How long ago did you try the demo? I admit it was a little crashy at first, but it's been super stable for me the last few months.

oh ok. i was pretty impatient.. I'll give it another go. Thanks

GUY SMILEY wrote:

locojohn wrote:

GUY SMILEY wrote:seems to me that for the mac you either

a. shell out about £1000
b. use Audacity
c. settle for a product which lets you look at the waveform but not edit it.



I look forward to Wavelab for the mac when that arrives.

Try AmadeusPro:

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

Yeah I tried that. No sample level editing though ?
I want to be able to 'draw' on the waveform - that (to me) is the fundamental point of a wave editor

Soundtrack Pro will do that.

+1 for Wave Editor on Mac

Wavelab should be 500-600 dollars for the full featured product (i.e. multitrack audio montage, 5.1 surround, all the AES and broadcast quality file formats etc, plus the expensive restoration plugins that SB used to sell for 300 bucks as a seperate package but always included in Wavelab) and around 250-300 for the Studio version (which will be stereo and retain red book CD authoring, and lose all the DVD-Audio and exotic pro broadcast file import/export and the audio montage).

Will make a killing on Mac, it is regarded really highly in the pro audio/studio/post production world of PC.

w1nt3rmut3 wrote:I still (still!) prefer Cool Edit Pro to its bloated successor Adobe Audition.

with you on Cool Edit, despite having had one or two minor niggles running a legacy app on a modern 64-bit o/s. but since tweaking the compatibility settings it's been solid.
over ten years since I originally purchased it and it's still fast, accurate, excellent sound quality, easy to use & has tons of really useful features.

haven't bothered trying Audition, after seeing what's happened to some of the software apps Adobe have bought out I dread to think what they'll have done to Syntrillium's code!


but looking at other user's comments WaveLab and SoundForge seem to be the preferred tools these days?

EDIT:
just checked the above two out, and it looks like I'll be sticking with Cool Edit for a while longer - didn't know SoundForge was from Sony, so that's that ruled out as I've been boycotting all Sony product for quite a while on account of their weaselly business practices, and I don't have 450GBP for WaveLab!

Hurrah for Cool Edit!