mac audio editor??

el sangrios · Post by **el sangrios** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 10:25 pm

Hi, long time pc user has just converted to mac...
luckily ableton is cross platform!

Really need an audio editor that is quick and intuitive like soundforge,
a program I will probably miss most,
unless someone can suggest a viable alternative for mac??? please?

cheeers

amo · Post by **amo** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 10:29 pm

Hi,

I'm more on PC than mac, and on the macs I use Pro Tools mainly, but the thing I know as an easy editor is Peak. It seems to be popular, but let's real mac users speak....
http://www.bias-inc.com/

Cheers,
amo

el sangrios · Post by **el sangrios** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 10:32 pm

cool, thanks for the reply..

any other suggestions people?

ocp · Post by **ocp** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 10:40 pm

Give Audacity a try; it's freeware!
Here's the link: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Hope this helps

maxi · Post by **maxi** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 10:40 pm

quite a same story
switched to mac a while ago
needed an editor (witch a now really rarely use)

audacity will do the job. it's free!
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

hyerstay · Post by **hyerstay** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 10:40 pm

DSPQuattro

or

Soundtrack Pro

For more Mac audio production information and forums:

http://osxaudio.com/

jason

amo · Post by **amo** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 10:41 pm

ocp wrote:Give Audacity a try; it's freeware!
Here's the link: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Hope this helps

Thought of it too, just when I read your post.

maxi · Post by **maxi** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 10:42 pm

amo wrote:
ocp wrote:Give Audacity a try; it's freeware!
Here's the link: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Hope this helps
Thought of it too, just when I read your post.

i was posting audacity on that exact moment too

icedsushi · Post by **icedsushi** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 10:44 pm

Hello, I'm a mac user. To be frank, Peak kinda sucks. I had been using it for 2 years and it's pretty buggy and overpriced. Plus, I heard that since Peak 5 was released it includes a brand new shiny dongle as an added bonus. The V-Box modular effects thing was definately kinda cool, but that's not the meat & potatoes of an audio editor IMO. It's not even on my computer right now. I'm thinking of selling it if I can.

DSP-Quattro, Soundtrack Pro, and Wave Editor are the the best ones going on right now. DSP is the least expensive and Soundtrack is the most expensive, but Soundtrack has more features and the better Logic plugs included which is well worth it. Wave Editor is a new one built from the ground up in OSX and looks the most promising to me. There are no plugs included and it only runs AU but the actual audio editing itself and layout of the application is very well thought out & organized. The nailed the basics which is not as easy as it seems. And, their "layers" concept (crossfading & blending of files) is very interesting and cutting edge...something you can't do in the others.

I'm going for Wave Editor or Soundtrack. I'm leaning towards Wave Editor. I'm in the market again for one too, but have been working without one for awhile in the time being.

ocp · Post by **ocp** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 10:45 pm

If you want a more sophisticated editor, try Soundhack (which is also free): http://www.soundhack.com/stuff/SH893.hqx

icedsushi · Post by **icedsushi** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 10:52 pm

huh..I don't know how I missed that. I have the soundhack plugins and didn't know that was an audio editor on the freeware page of the website.

Is that kinda along the lines of Soundtrack, DSP, Wave Editor?

Anyway, I guess I'll just try it.

Jubei · Post by **Jubei** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 11:06 pm

I use DSP Quattro. I was using audacity, but it's a little bare bones. Of course it is free! For 149 dollars, DSP is a steal.

computo · Post by **computo** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 12:21 am

icedsushi wrote:Hello, I'm a mac user. To be frank, Peak kinda sucks. I had been using it for 2 years and it's pretty buggy and overpriced. Plus, I heard that since Peak 5 was released it includes a brand new shiny dongle as an added bonus. The V-Box modular effects thing was definately kinda cool, but that's not the meat & potatoes of an audio editor IMO. It's not even on my computer right now. I'm thinking of selling it if I can.

DSP-Quattro, Soundtrack Pro, and Wave Editor are the the best ones going on right now. DSP is the least expensive and Soundtrack is the most expensive, but Soundtrack has more features and the better Logic plugs included which is well worth it. Wave Editor is a new one built from the ground up in OSX and looks the most promising to me. There are no plugs included and it only runs AU but the actual audio editing itself and layout of the application is very well thought out & organized. The nailed the basics which is not as easy as it seems. And, their "layers" concept (crossfading & blending of files) is very interesting and cutting edge...something you can't do in the others.

I'm going for Wave Editor or Soundtrack. I'm leaning towards Wave Editor. I'm in the market again for one too, but have been working without one for awhile in the time being.

This dude is freaking crazy. Peak is awesome.

Dont know WHAT hes talking about.

icedsushi · Post by **icedsushi** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 12:50 am

Sorry we don't agree Chris, but Peak has a clumsy ugly interface & it was very buggy in my very direct experience. If you don't mind working around the bugs with basic everyday functions in Peak 4, you can do some cool audio mangling stuff with it.

When I reported a major bug that cramped my everyday workflow and sent them a file, they confirmed it as a bug & it was never fixed for an entire year, even to the final update of ver4 it wasn't fixed when they said it would be. Then there were no more updates because 5 came out. In my case the bug was a real workstopper for what I wanted to do with the application and I just waited and waited and waited and waited. Every time I used call them over the course of almost a year, they said, we're working on it, we're working on it and ultimately nothing got done.

Maybe they finally fixed it in ver5, but I'm don't feel like paying for a bugfix, especially after they said it was fixed in 4 and wasn't.

went to the gypsy · Post by **went to the gypsy** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 12:54 am

whoops ...
sorry ....

i've been on macs a while (transplant from PC). i rarely use PEAK--though i've had it for a year.

damn i wish i'd bought beer ...