I have a stuffit .sit file with some small SoundEdit Pro recordings of
my kids when they were young. I have been looking for months for a way
to convert them to something modern like .wav. As a last resort, I'm
asking if any kind soul could give me a hand. There must be someone
with an old Mac system & a SoundEdit version that could read these
files.

If you can help me out, I have posted the file to my web site at:
http://sounds.iut.us The sit file is only about 350K.

Thanks,
Mike

I've saved your file and will attempt to convert it to .wav within the
next few days.

For future reference . . . Adobe Audition will read a .sit file, and
you can save it as .wav or anything else.

chris
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Mike,

I converted the files for you. They should be sitting in a .zip file
in your mailbox.

Travis Garrison

Travis Garrison wrote:

Mike,

I converted the files for you. They should be sitting in a .zip file
in your mailbox.

Travis Garrison

Travis,
What were the sample rate, bit depths and
'law' settings on the file ? I tried to open
it and used most of the various settings but
never heard any audio (just noise).
I tried it with both Forge and Audition.
(I'm trying to learn a little bit more about
the Apple formats)

Thanks
rd

The two "twinkle twinkle" files are both 8-bit 22.255kHz mono files,
and the "turtles" file is an 8-bit 22.255kHz 4-channel file. I was
only able to open them using Sound Edit 16, which leads me to believe
that they were saved with some proprietary format. Sound Edit 16 had
no problem converting them to something more standards-friendly. I
also split the 4-channel file into 4 mono files for reasons detailed
below.

I keep a copy of Sound Edit 16 on my Powerbook in order to deal with
multi-channel sound files such as "5 turtles." I recently did a series
of 8-channel electro-acoustic compositions that I had saved as
8-channel .aif files in Max/MSP. Sound Edit 16 is the only program
I've found that can open and edit a sound file with more than 2
channels. Is anyone aware of another such program? Sound Edit 16 is
OK, but it never made it into the OS X world.

Travis