Tracktion Software

Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 10:08 pm

platinumears wrote:It works perfectly as Tracktion's external editor if thats what you mean: you can open a file in Acoustica from the right-click menu of Tracktion, and pressing save in Acoustica updates the clip in Tracktion..

Yup, this is what I meant. Thanks.

Depending on T2's feature set, I'll have to decide to go budget (Acoustica), full-featured (Audition), or neither (if T can do most of it).

Greg

IIRs · Post by **IIRs** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 10:21 pm

Lunch Money wrote: Depending on T2's feature set, I'll have to decide to go budget (Acoustica), full-featured (Audition), or neither (if T can do most of it

Meanwhile, why not try it free for a month? You will get a feel for using an external editor from within Tracktion, which might help you decide if its something you'll do a lot (Audition), occasionally (Acoustica), or never at all (save your cash & go to the pub).

Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 10:31 pm

Sold.

Er... well... on the idea. Why NOT try it for 30 days? The only other budget option I was considering was NGwave, but I tried and did not like.

Greg

P.T. · Post by **P.T.** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 10:19 am

What about magix music studio for $80US. People say that the audio studio part is a lot like Samplitude.

I have an old copy of audio studio 5. It doesn't import higher that 16 bit waves or I would use it as it has more functionality than Audacity, Acoustica or NGwave from what I have seen.

The current version of music studio imports up to 32 bit floating point.

jpf228 · Post by **jpf228** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 4:33 pm

Is there anything for Mac OS X that is close to Adobe Audtion in terms of ease of use/power/compatibility? It seems like Audition is the tool of choice for many here but it is currently Windows-only from what I can tell...

PaulSC · Post by **PaulSC** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 8:54 pm

Maybe try DSP Quattro
http://www.dsp-quattro.com/
Haven't used it, but I've heard good things about it. (I haven't used Tracktion either, but it's going to be hard to resist once v 2 is released.)

AD80 · Post by **AD80** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 9:16 pm

jpf228 wrote:Is there anything for Mac OS X that is close to Adobe Audtion in terms of ease of use/power/compatibility?

Nope. Theres DSP Quattro which is a pretty good value, and also Bias Peak which is a NOT so good value. But both are pretty clumsy IMHO. Compared to Audition that is. They get the job done tho.

Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 9:40 pm

PT wrote:What about magix music studio for $80US. People say that the audio studio part is a lot like Samplitude.

I have an old copy of audio studio 5. It doesn't import higher that 16 bit waves or I would use it as it has more functionality than Audacity, Acoustica or NGwave from what I have seen.

I had a peek, but it doesn't seem to offer (at least from the features list) true audio editor capability. There's a mastering suite, noise reduction plugs, etc., but I don't know that there's a pencil tool or quick and easy editing of individual .wav files. It's more of a multi-tracker, so I suspect you'd have to import the audio file, edit it, and then export it again.

Still, it might be OK for a 'mastering' solution or a final mixdown solution. Acoustica seems to be more what I'm looking for (or Audition except it's costly).

Greg

P.T. · Post by **P.T.** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 5:25 am

I really wish they had a demo of music studio. Magix audio studio5 from a few years ago has a drawing tool and the ability to edit vol and eq using user created edit points that can be moved about to create the type of envelope that you want.

I'm afraid to spend the $80US in a blind purchase.

I was hoping someone who has it might speak up.

P.T. · Post by **P.T.** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 5:40 am

I just double checked and audio studio doesn't seem to have the drawing tool but it has other ways to edit at the sample level.

Still, how can I buy the new version without a demo so I will know what it does and doesn't have?

Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 6:27 am

If you want to take the "blind purchase" risk, don't forget that Audio Studio can be purchased seperately. I don't quite understand the website, though-- they made it seem like you run it from a virtual server, but I'm imagining that it's just a software download?

Customer support could probably answer that one. In which case, it'd be $39.95.

Greg

P.T. · Post by **P.T.** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 9:36 am

I noticed the e-version and it does look like it runs from a server (they talk about it always being available on line and how you save disk space)but it is a 30MB download.

I don't get it.

sean808080 · Post by **sean808080** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 8:07 pm

i used to use this audio editor and loved loved loved it..i'm not sure if its freeware or shareware but it's worth a looksee.

sean

Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 12:10 am

What was it called? Any memory of the name?

Greg

headquest · Post by **headquest** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 12:59 am

Lunch Money wrote:Sold.

Er... well... on the idea. Why NOT try it for 30 days? The only other budget option I was considering was NGwave, but I tried and did not like.

Greg

Is your 30 days of Audition finally up then LM?

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