Right, well I really cannot answer your questions when it comes to comparing audio editors on the mac with Cool Edit or Adobe Audition, I have used those applications but its been aqbsolute ages since I've touched them. How accessible is a Mac? Well with the two editing applications and others I mentioned in my original message its perfectly accessible with those. I'd be telling fibs if I told you that VoiceOver is accessible with every application written for a Mac, that just isn't true and I venture to say that the same holds true with accessability on a PC running Windows. Suffice to say, accessability will be a thousand times better for the Mac when Lepard comes along in less than 2 months time. If you want further information on accessability as it stands write now for various applications then perhaps it would be a good idea to write me privately and we can discuss this topic in a broad nature which isn't confined to audio. Of course, with the new Macs, you can use such software as Bootcamp and Fusion to boot Windows, that way you can use both JAWS and Window-Eyes for those times when you need to use applications that aren't around for the Mac, if you use Fusion then you can switch between Mac OS and Windows at the touch of a keystroke, handy when you wish to say copy data between different applications on in the different operating systems. If you use Bootcamp then you either boot into Windows or the Mac Operating system when the computer starts up. Hope this has helped.
On 01/09/2007, at 4:22 PM, Jed Barton wrote: So overall, how accessible is the mac? I have often thought of getting one, but want a good honest opinion from someone. So can you do some serious multitracking with sound studio? Is it similar to cool edit? Sinceer Regards, Jed -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2007 2:20 AM To: PC audio discussion list. Subject: Audio Editors For The Mac Hi! Since I last wrote on this subject I'm happy to say there have been some excellent advances in the Audio Editing software on available for the Mac, the unfortunate news is that (as far as I'm aware) the good folk who develop Pro Tools have not yet seen fit to make their product accessible, funny howe previous versions of this application were extremely accessible under Mac OS 9 Classic but that's another issue so we can only keep writing, hoping and praying. I've spoken of the Sound Studio audio editor before, this has undergone some significant upgrades in the last few months, one of which is the added ability toe "cue/review" a file in a similar way that Sound Forge does, use number 2 to fast forward and 1 to rewind. Sound Studio has also incorporated more cursor movements to allow the quick moving through a file and more commands to manipulate and select sound data through shortcut commands from the keyboard. Sound Studio gives you access to many effects and processes such as pitch change, flange, faze, various graphic equalisers, noise generation, delay etc so its a bit more than an audio editor but well priced at $79.00 As a final note about Sound Studio, if multi track editing is your thing then this software comes into its own with full milti track editing support which is fully accessible. If you wish to find out more about Sound Studio then visit http://www.feltip.com Now if you're thinking of just a basic sound editor then Fission may be more suited to you at $50.00 and when we're talking basic then that's exactly what we're talking here, all Fission does is edit audio but it does this task very well. Fission like sound Studio has "Cue/Review" commands, the great thing here is that you can see exactly where the play head is in the form of a time reading so you can "split" a file at the touch of a keystroke, set a selection point at the play head at the touch of a keystroke etc. What Fission really has going for it in my view is that it can use Cue Sheets for importing or exporting data, many CD Rippers on the market today produce Cue sheets and such software includes Exact Audio Copy, Easy CD DA extractor and Max Audio CD Ripper just to name a few. A cue file is a simple text file that's produced along with a Wave or FLAC file which contains the sound of the audio CD or audio project, the Cue sheet contains information on the CD or Audio project, at which points on the CD tracks begin and end, the names of these tracks etc. Fission can act on these files so for example if you had a cue and Wave file from a CD created by a ripper, you could load them into Fission and have fission export the results in another format, say MP3, ALAC, M4A, Aif etc. Among Fissions other features are trim crop, normalise, smart split (splits the file according to chages in audio level) etc. Fission still lacks a little functionality such as a "go to" dialog box but we're happy to say that the author of Fission seems to be very contactable and open to suggestions so we're hoping that improvements will be made to the software in the "not-to-distant" future. As you can see, Fission is a very basic piece of software, its actually designed to be used as part of a package, with other peices of software such as Audio Hijack Pro, a multi purpose multi-function piece of recording software which "hijacks" and records every possible audio source on a Mac that you can think of, these sources include the 2 ends of a Skype call and even Hidden applications running in the background on a Mac which includes Voiceover, the Screen Reading Software built-in to OS Tiger and the soon to be released upgrade OS Lepard. Nicecast, a software application which allows netcasting of various inputs and sources from your computer, all these products are extremely accessible. 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