Comments on: Mac Software Recommendations - Audio Editing, like Adobe Audition?

By: Carlosula

Carlosula — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:00:07 +0000

I too have been a long time user now of Sound Studio and it works. I’ve been trying to find a program which is slightly more automated and will allow me to shorten empty spaces, or lengthen to fit certain time restrictions.
I’m also looking for a program which would allow me more easily fade music in and out of my podcast, automatically. Now I have to do that all manually.
Sound Studio has worked flawlessly on my MacBook. No glitches. It’s done fine, but I’m looking for a bit more muscle.

By: Josh Bancroft

Josh Bancroft — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:38:15 +0000

I’ve actually been going back and forth between GarageBand and Audacity. I’ve realized that my audio editing needs aren’t really all that advanced, and while Audition has some awesome high end features, I can live without them. I’m too easily distracted by other shiny things to worry too much about it.

By: george

george — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:34:26 +0000

I too come from a CoolEdit background. I did a lot of searching over the past two years and I still haven’t found anything better than SoundStudio for day to day, simple, quick and dirty editing. I’ve tried Logic Express, Soundtrack, Audacity, Peak, even Audiofile’s Wave Editor. Although unfortunately SS is too buggy for me to love it, it still does the job (for me!) better than the others. I also compared it to the recent Peak Express (a tad too limited, but it works fine!), and SS won for most productive and easy to use interface.

I see this is a fairly old post, so I’d like to know what you’ve settled for…

By: kieran

kieran — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:49:13 +0000

why dont you just put windows on your mac and you can put audition on it then

By: ThaMeR

ThaMeR — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:40:17 +0000

yes. There is an application which is Apple Logic Express 8.

You can do what ever you do with Adobe Audition.

http://www.apple.com/logicexpress/

and you can download it from here

http://www.rapidfind.org/upload/showthread.php?p=201072

Thanks

By: windrumscoggin

windrumscoggin — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:56:35 +0000

Ok, Are you are seeking a loop editor, audio stero file mastering suite, or both?
To get what you are seeking you must purchase something to handle the job professionally so go to:
http://www.propellerheads.se/products/recycle/
It is great for the Mac and does both what you seek.

For straight up audio editing check out these products. It is all about the power you want, and the money you are willing to spend to get the results you want
My personal favorite for many years and to which I now use on my Imac is
NUENDO
http://www.steinberg.net/en/products/audiopostproduction_product/nuendo4/nuendo4_system.html

If the aforementioned are out of your price range then

check out PEAK (mastering) and DECK (recording/mixing) at
http://www.bias-inc.com.

Apple’s Soundtrack
http://www.apple.com/soundtrack/

PROTOOLS http://www.protools.com It was designed for PC and I don’t like the interface considering the price they ask for it. Simply due to our American recording Industry making it the defacto-default for the audio-recording industry (way overpriced as well) it has become hugely popular with the prostudios simply because of the hardware it had to complement the software in days when computers didn’t have enough processing power on their own without PCI card help like Protools offered. Because of all this, it had a headstart, a pricetag to match, became the standard but by no means is it the best out there anymore IMHO but because initial investment by the ‘pro’ market was so huge they don’t want to move out of their ‘comfort zone’.
You still can get a free copy of its software to use as an editor but the audio multitrack recording programs such as Cubase, Logic, and Protools will have far too many bells and whistles for what many ‘laypersons’ are trying to do (record and restore/edit old records, tapes etc) and will only confuse them further with endless menus they’ll never use.
Good luck

By: Karson With a K

Karson With a K — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:52:00 +0000

I came across the same problem and I was actually a beta tester for Cool Edit. I had an idea but I don’t have Windows Vista. What if you used Boot Camp on your Mac to install Windows then install Adobe Audition on your Mac?

By: Huckleberry

Huckleberry — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:29:41 +0000

Gentlemen;
I recently switched to an imac with 4GB of ram. But still have to keep my PC on desk for recording. I can’t even record sounds from internal speakers by audacity on my imac. However audacity works fine on PC. Could you please tell me how to overcome the mac problem?
Thanks in advance.

By: RP

RP — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:31:04 +0000

Seems the best way for the time being is to use VMWare Fusion and install Adobe Audition on your Windows install. I tried Audacity at the weekend but after so many hours in front of Audition changing seems a bit too much like hard work.

By: AngelfingersPT

AngelfingersPT — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:34:19 +0000

Well guys, there’s nothing like Audition for Mac. I used it since it was Cool Edit and GOD how I miss everything. Now that I finally have an amazing Mac Pro machine, I lost the most fantastic, intuitive, faster, good lucking, customizable software in the universe. Please Adobe hear our praer.

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