KVR Audio

wesleyt · Post by **wesleyt** » Tue Mar 03, 2015 7:34 am

I use audio editors for offline processing and analysis, for playing music files, for transcoding files—a bunch of things that aren't as easy or possible in Logic.

Amadeus Pro is my general-purpose editor; one thing I use it for is to select a part of a song I'm working on and get its RMS level. It's much faster than hitting play and waiting in Logic.

Many of RX 4's special functions are more accurate and/or easier to use in offline mode in the standalone app than as plugins in Logic, so I often process files offline before importing them into Logic.

DJ Warmonger · Post by **DJ Warmonger** » Wed Mar 04, 2015 4:57 pm

Audacity) for timestretching, reversing, pitch-shifting, filtering, trimming

Don't know how about other DAWs, but Ableton can do all of these directly or indirectly.

I use Audacity pretty much only for converting wav to mp3. Functions like spectrum or clipping detection are also helpful at this stage.

seismic1 · Post by **seismic1** » Wed Mar 04, 2015 10:35 pm

DJ Warmonger wrote:
Audacity) for timestretching, reversing, pitch-shifting, filtering, trimming
Don't know how about other DAWs, but Ableton can do all of these directly or indirectly.

I use Audacity pretty much only for converting wav to mp3. Functions like spectrum or clipping detection are also helpful at this stage.

It's nice to get outDAWS once in a while

Dúnedain · Post by **Dúnedain** » Sat Mar 07, 2015 7:49 pm

Small quick bread and butter tasks:

looking how a short sample looks like
converting stereo to mono
restoring vinyl recordings
Reverse
deleting silence at the beginning / end of a file
playback at slower / higher speed (vari-speed)
normalizing
exporting a selection to a new file
conversion to mp3
Finding parts of a bigger file which can be looped / playback loops
Fade in / out at the sart / end of a file
Analyzing (if the tools are there)

My fav wave editor is Goldwave, unfortunately no version for Mac. I dislike Audacity

seismic1 · Post by **seismic1** » Sat Mar 07, 2015 7:53 pm

Goldwave is a very useful piece of software. I digitised my LP collection and a few cassettes too. Some of the built-in processors are very powerful.

PatchAdamz · Post by **PatchAdamz** » Mon Mar 16, 2015 8:39 pm

Mastering, as well as editing, making CDs, combining tracks, special edits, etc...

Wavelab

Jace-BeOS · Post by **Jace-BeOS** » Mon Mar 16, 2015 10:38 pm

Editing audio?

Seriously, a lot of times I need to do small edits that are way easier in a dedicated editor than in Logic's editor. Usually trimming, or fading transitions from non-zero to avoid clicks after some other edit. Sometimes I need to swap channels or convert to mono. Sometimes I want to do weird audio processing that can't be done in a DAW. Sound Forge's Acoustic Mirror is a convolution effect that seems to work very differently than Space Designer, for example. I wish there was a Mac version.

Biggest reason though? GUI. No DAW has ever felt as effective for actual waveform editing. Dedicated tools for specific purposes are typically most effective for them.

Kalamata Kid · Post by **Kalamata Kid** » Mon Mar 16, 2015 11:01 pm

The main difference between a DAW like let's say Cubase and an Audio Editor let's say Samplitude is the later has no midi tracks. The main function of an Audio Editor is to mix and to master. How wrong am I about this?

Regnas · Post by **Regnas** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 1:25 am

Wavosaur FTW....

soundklinik · Post by **soundklinik** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 12:40 pm

I use "Wave pad sound editor"
to convert from 32 bit to 16 bit
to slice or extract parts of audio
to make loops

Dúnedain · Post by **Dúnedain** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 7:26 pm

Kalamata Kid wrote:The main difference between a DAW like let's say Cubase and an Audio Editor let's say Samplitude is the later has no midi tracks. The main function of an Audio Editor is to mix and to master. How wrong am I about this?

An Audio editor should only work on 1 track of audio. If it works on more audio tracks I would call it a DAW.

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 7:33 pm

Kalamata Kid wrote:The main function of an Audio Editor is to mix and to master.

I would say the main functions of an audio editor are mastering, CD production, or editing samples more in depth than you'd be able to do with your built-in DAW's editor. As already has been posted, you can also restaurate old vinyl or tape recordings, edit and process podcasts or speeches and so on. Well, you probably won't need an audio editor anyway, if you need to ask "Why do you use an audio editor?".

I don't need one much these days also, but i used to cut a lot of MP3's, create cue-files, or normalize and compress stuff. Nowadays, i mostly use one to archive records.

Shabdahbriah · Post by **Shabdahbriah** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 8:44 pm

seismic1 wrote:
DJ Warmonger wrote:
Audacity) for timestretching, reversing, pitch-shifting, filtering, trimming
Don't know how about other DAWs, but Ableton can do all of these directly or indirectly.

I use Audacity pretty much only for converting wav to mp3. Functions like spectrum or clipping detection are also helpful at this stage.
It's nice to get outDAWS once in a while

I see what you did there.

lobanov · Post by **lobanov** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 8:58 pm

Dúnedain wrote:
Kalamata Kid wrote:The main difference between a DAW like let's say Cubase and an Audio Editor let's say Samplitude is the later has no midi tracks. The main function of an Audio Editor is to mix and to master. How wrong am I about this?
An Audio editor should only work on 1 track of audio. If it works on more audio tracks I would call it a DAW.

Yes. And working with MIDI is a main goal of a sequencer.

Sequencer -> MIDI
Audio Editor -> editing of 1 track audio, mastering, converting etc.
DAW -> mixing (and "all-in-one" solution ideally)

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 9:15 pm

Editing, recording, mastering, re-sampling, batch processing, ripping, converting, compiling CDs ...

Why Do you Use an Audio Editor?