High Dane, I'd like to know a little more about that too as well. You can send me an email off list at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I will talk to you real soon! Signed John Price. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dane Trethowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2007 2:34 AM Subject: Re: Audio Editors For The Mac
> 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. > To find out more about the audio editor Fission, the recording solution > Audio Hijack Pro and the Netcasting software Nicecast, visit > http://www.rogueamoeba.com// > > > > > > ****************************** > > > Dane Trethowan > > From Melton Victoria Australia > > Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > phone uk 0121 288 4976 > > Phone/tty (+61 3) 9747 975 > > Fax +61 3 9743 7954 > > mobile/sms: +61425 777 508 > > Skype: callto:grtdane12 > > MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ****************************** > > > > > -------------------------------- > > Join the fight against spam! 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