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Recommendations for an alternative to Audacity
I'd be interested to know what software you folks would recommend for
post-production of audio field recordings (eg of ensembles, bands, orchestras etc) - I record onto either a computer or a Zoom H4N. I've used two products: - Audacity which, for almost all of the things I need to do, I really like for its simple, effective and intuitive user interface. - Cubase LE (which has come free with a couple of devices I've purchased) which I have found to be totally unintuitive and frustratingly complex for even the simplest of operations. In fact the only two areas I find Audacity lets me down a - its EQ which has to be done "batch mode" - ie you can't modify EQ settings and hear the effect in real-time (apart from an all too short and usually irrelevant preview period). Instead you have to apply the settings to some or all of the track and then listen back to hear the results - it doesn't provide a decent reverb, and again you can't monitor its settings in real-time Cubase LE does provide a decent reverb (and many other plug in alternative reverbs are readily available) and both these and EQ can be monitored in real-time, which is great and exactly what I want. However every time I try to figure out how to use Cubase I quickly get to a state of frustration where I'm ready to throw the computer out the window - as an IT professional, I can't believe how badly designed it is and how poor the documentation is for the relatively simple tasks I need it to perform. So, if anyone has any suggestions for alternatives, I'll be very interested: something with the wonderful ease and simplicity of Audacity but with real-time EQ and reverb....or perhaps some Audacity expert can tell me how to achieve my goal! Rob |
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Recommendations for an alternative to Audacity
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 17:25:53 +0000, rtweed wrote:
I'd be interested to know what software you folks would recommend for post-production of audio field recordings (eg of ensembles, bands, orchestras etc) - I record onto either a computer or a Zoom H4N. I've used two products: - Audacity which, for almost all of the things I need to do, I really like for its simple, effective and intuitive user interface. - Cubase LE (which has come free with a couple of devices I've purchased) which I have found to be totally unintuitive and frustratingly complex for even the simplest of operations. In fact the only two areas I find Audacity lets me down a - its EQ which has to be done "batch mode" - ie you can't modify EQ settings and hear the effect in real-time (apart from an all too short and usually irrelevant preview period). Instead you have to apply the settings to some or all of the track and then listen back to hear the results - it doesn't provide a decent reverb, and again you can't monitor its settings in real-time Well since this group is called re.audio"high-end" I would suggest to stay away from both reverb en EQ. Both will destroy the high end part of what you recorded in the first place. Edmund Rob |
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Recommendations for an alternative to Audacity
"rtweed" wrote in message
... I'd be interested to know what software you folks would recommend for post-production of audio field recordings (eg of ensembles, bands, orchestras etc) - I record onto either a computer or a Zoom H4N. For many of us, the all-time classic audio editing tool is Cool Edit or Cool Edit Pro. Especially in the Cool Edit Pro 2.1 incarnation, it is still a highly effective tool. Sadly, Cool Edit was sold to Adobe who changed its name to Auditon, IMO it hasn't exactly thrived under Adobe's stewardship. I bought the first two pay-for release upgrades of Audition as well as the inital freebie, tried to enjoy them, and eventually regressed to CEP 2.1. |
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Recommendations for an alternative to Audacity
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 10:25:53 -0700, rtweed wrote
(in article ): I'd be interested to know what software you folks would recommend for post-production of audio field recordings (eg of ensembles, bands, orchestras etc) - I record onto either a computer or a Zoom H4N. I've used two products: - Audacity which, for almost all of the things I need to do, I really like for its simple, effective and intuitive user interface. - Cubase LE (which has come free with a couple of devices I've purchased) which I have found to be totally unintuitive and frustratingly complex for even the simplest of operations. In fact the only two areas I find Audacity lets me down a - its EQ which has to be done "batch mode" - ie you can't modify EQ settings and hear the effect in real-time (apart from an all too short and usually irrelevant preview period). Instead you have to apply the settings to some or all of the track and then listen back to hear the results - it doesn't provide a decent reverb, and again you can't monitor its settings in real-time Cubase LE does provide a decent reverb (and many other plug in alternative reverbs are readily available) and both these and EQ can be monitored in real-time, which is great and exactly what I want. However every time I try to figure out how to use Cubase I quickly get to a state of frustration where I'm ready to throw the computer out the window - as an IT professional, I can't believe how badly designed it is and how poor the documentation is for the relatively simple tasks I need it to perform. So, if anyone has any suggestions for alternatives, I'll be very interested: something with the wonderful ease and simplicity of Audacity but with real-time EQ and reverb....or perhaps some Audacity expert can tell me how to achieve my goal! Rob Actually, you have about hit the nail on the head. 'Audacity' does most things more than adequately, and "Cubebase LE" is good for many of the bases that 'Audacity' doesn't cover. You might also try "Garage Band" on the Mac for some things but the best "not free" solution is Apple's 'Logic Express 9' music editing software. Of course, you need a Mac to run this stuff, but if you're doing recording and editing on a computer, you should be using a Mac anyway because that's where most of the tools are. |
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Recommendations for an alternative to Audacity
Dear friends, for me the best is SoundForge, now from Sony.
[ Excessive quotation snipped -- dsr ] |
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