Hi Tony, Tony Bernedal wrote:
> Does anyone know of any good software to use for recording lp or tapes > to the mac. I used audio grabber for windows to do that and I really > liked the features it have for splitting tracks etc. Is there anything > similar on the mac. Free or payed software. I have amadeus for a > testdrive but it looks very overkill just for recording tapes and lps > to the mac. > Any tips are welcome. I actually like using Amadeus Pro for recording tapes to the Mac, because it does a relatively good job of denoising, and it also has a feature where it will automatically split tracks based on the silence intervals. Are you running Snow Leopard? Also, what type of Mac do you have? The issues you're likely to come up against are first, the connection of your device to the computer (you can use the line-in, but I think that on some of the older model Mac Minis that wasn't present; or you can use a USB - audio input connection device); second, do you need to take care of click removal and reduction of hiss from the tape? If the only editing issues you think you have to deal with are selecting the start and stop times of your recording and trimming the sections, then you can use a recorder with a very simple interface. A freeware program like Audio Recorder works pretty well, but the distribution was designed for Tiger and Leopard, so I don't know whether Here are links to a few possible sources of further information: • Apple's Support Document on Audio Attachments from their Knowledge Base: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2508 The quick summary is that you might want to use a device like the Griffin iMic (about $29.99 list price) to connect your Audio devices to the USB port of your computer, possibly with a small "Y" connector that you can buy for a few dollars at Radio Shack; for better audio performance, you could use an M-Audio device, and then connect to various "Pro" level audio inputs at the high end. • Audio Restoration page by Brian Davies: http://www.maths.anu.edu.au/~briand/sound/ This is a page about restoring recordings from LPs and tapes that you digitally capture. The author, Brian Davies, has developed software products for both click repair of LPs and de-noising hiss. (I haven't tried these, so I don't know how they work under VoiceOver). There are sound samples, and the results sound impressive. There are links to his software (each is about $40, but I think there are free trials) for ClickRepair, and DeNoise. There are also links to web pages about digitizing LPs and tapes. The author is a retired math professor who developed this software for saving his own recordings. • Final Vinyl Freeware http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/audio/finalvinyl.html This is freeware software from Griffin Technologies (the makers of the Griffin iMic, audio-to-USB connector mentioned previously) for helping to correct digitized recordings. • TidBITS discussion of Audio Processing Software: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/audio/finalvinyl.html This is one of the more illuminating discussions of Mac Software for the problem of digitizing tapes and LPs (see the original person's question, and also read down for the reply by Matt Neuberg). There are a lot of expensive software tools for dealing with noise and artifacts (e.g. Peak Bias, Sound Soap, etc.) I though the comments in the thread were fairly good. Although they don't mention accessibility, most of the apps referenced are accessible to different degrees. And I think the comments about ClickRepair and DeNoise (link given to Brian Davies' web site above) are relevant. As I mentioned, if you want to do very simple editing, you could simply record with AudioRecorder: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/17392 You could even just clip the start and stop times with Get Info (Command-I, and go to the Options tab to set the start and stop times for playback) with iTunes. (This is for versions up to Leopard; I don't know about Snow Leopard compatibility). Audio Recorder has a very simple interface. Between other apps, I would just use Amadeus Pro. Sound Studio has a nice feature where it will automatically shut off when there's a long silence (if you come to the end of a tape you've left recording). But basically, if you ever need an all-purpose editor, you may eventually want to get Amadeus Pro. It's very full-functioned for the price ($40, and I believe you can use the license on your laptop and your desktop), the author is responsive, and has been improving the interface for VoiceOver use, and the features are pretty good. I haven't worked at this, but I've found it easier to denoise tapes with Amadeus Pro than with other software. However, there are several people on this list with more experience in recording software than I have, and I've mostly been digitizing audiobooks and some music from cassettes. HTH Cheers, Esther --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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