Sound Studio 3
A while ago I asked the world if anyone could suggest a good sound editor for the mac. I received quite a few helpful comments, but only recently did I get round to trying out Sound Studio 3. I wish I had tried it before. It’s the sound editor for me.
Like all the best applications, it has a nice clean interface but keeps lots of features tucked away under the menu. There are a load of high quality compressors and expanders, and access to all the ones that are on the Mac too. But I really like it just for the simple editing that is very similar to Sony’s Sound Forge (for Windows).
You can simply drop in markers at the beginning and end of the section you want to cut, click inbetween the markers to block it, and then snip. This is the only way I know of sound editing where you don’t constantly loose the beginning and end of what you want to cut.
It comes with some extra goodies, the most useful of which for me is the stitcher. If your audio is spread out over several files, you can drag them into an window and it just stitches them together end to end.
It supports just about every type of audio you might need, including Wave, AIFF, and MP3 (but you must install lame for MP3s making).
And for podcasters, you can add the id 3 tags directly from Sound Studio - another time saver. Fab !
25. February 2008 at 08:42
my name is john