Mac Audio Editos

[headquest]

No it's interesting, headquest is a great guy, known him forever, i am sure he won't mind.

Hey there - great to reconnect! And yes, the whole thread has been interesting and helpful!

It's been a while since I was around, and it's good to see some old faces still active. Once the new computer is in place, I'm anticipating getting back into more composing again, so I look forward to seeing more of KVR again after a little absence!

... advice about dspq ...

And thanks for the advice! Will definitely give the demo a spin!

Cheers

[Michael L]

DSPQuattro's main strength is microscopic control, such as nudging the loop points to zero crossing using the Loop Window, changing x-fade length and curve while listening to the loop using X-Fade Loop, etc. Unlike the other one-window editors, DSPQ uses floating windows, so your waveform can fill the screen for more precision. The user manual pp.38-42 gives a good overview of looping, and p.14 of batch conversion to mp3 using LAME. The 45-section Groove3 tutorial gives a truly outstanding presentation on workflow.

[headquest]

Thanks Michael

[thetechnobear]

Ive also been struggling to find an editor at a good price with decent batch functionality (mac)
basically what I want is pretty simple
- export raw data (16 signed, no header)
- resample wave to N samples.
- the above to be batch driven
- retina displays (preferably, not not necessary)

what I found was:
- audacity, its free, can't complain... but not retina enabled, so fonts are ugly, its not very intuitive, the batch processing does not cover export raw, or resample to N samples
- DSP quattro, again not retina, batch processing is limited , does not cover export raw, or resample to N samples
- Twisted Wave, nice, simple to use, but no export of RAW data or resample to N samples

Wave lab essentials doesn't appear to offer batch processing, and wave lab pro is too expensive/overkill for my needs.

currently looks like I'm stuck with audacity and doing things one file at a time.... but I keep searching in hope of another solution
I've also emailed DSP quattro/twisted wave... with a couple of feature requests...

perhaps the solution will be to find a way to do it in Max or something....or even C++

[sprnva]

You could probably batch process files with a terminal-based util like ffmpeg or sox. "Just" a case of writing up a bash script that takes all the files in a folder and runs them through the conversion procedure.

For example: ffmpeg -i original.wav -ar 22050 -f u16be output.raw will convert the input wav to a 16-bit unsigned raw file (big endian) at 22050Hz.

Or you could use Automator in place of a bash script.

[chk071]

Looks like batch processing is possible with newer Wavelab Elements versions though: https://www.steinberg.net/forums/viewto ... 89&t=70986

[thetechnobear]

@sprnva - yeah, Ive considered the ffmpeg command line route...but also kind of wanted 'one tool' as I do also do a bit of editing for splitting wave files etc. but thats no real excuse, just lazyness really - . I'll give it a go now

@chk071 bizarre, according to the specs it doesn't...
http://www.steinberg.net/en/products/wa ... ne_up.html
but hey, worth downloading and give it a shot, I've found before these specs sheets from steinberg a little confusing...and its integration with cubase would be handy too.

thanks for the input, will report back


UPDATE:
ffmpeg works well for conversion, the resampling to N samples can be done by calculating a relative sample rate

wave lab essentials , has batch processing for simple resampling and alike, so works for me ... but no other processing options for batch processing (perhaps that's what you get with wave lab pro?!)
apart from that, its a pretty basic app BUT what it does do, it seems to do well.... and is quite familiar due to cubase look n feel.







thanks.

[Michael L]

Also try Myriad, specializes in batch SRC:
http://www.audiofile-engineering.com/myriad/
I dont use it but have heard good things. (I use Iced Audio's AudioFinder that does batch but it is more a file manager).