What's a good wave editor for the mac

[SpiralTrance]

I should add i'm getting logic studio 9 with my mac, will they come with a decent wave editor?

[davey boy]

Originally Posted by SpiralTrance

I should add i'm getting logic studio 9 with my mac, will they come with a decent wave editor?

Yes, Soundtrack Pro which works great. Or, just open it up in logic and chop it up there.

Audacity is free, Fission is very cheap. Then there is DSP Quatro, Peak LE and finally just Peak. I'm sure there are other ones as well. If it were me I'd just try using Logic's stuff first as I'm already paying for it. Personally, I use Fission for rough editing and normalizing as it can open mp3 files and save them easily. It's not good for doing fine editing. After that I mostly use Peak for anything real. I've tried Audacity and it's OK but can't comment very much on it. I've used Sound Track Pro a lot while working in Logic but haven't used it stand alone, but, I think it does a lot. You could really get in there and in addition to chopping things up you could get creative with fx, etc. It's also non destructive until you decide to commit to something. Very cool.

[SpiralTrance]

i'll stick with soundtools then and maybe give audacity a go. thanks for the info davey.

[Whitecat]

Audiofile Engineering's Wave Editor is worth a look as well. $79 gets you quite a bit for your money...

[hautacam]

I would highly recommend Sound Forge if it was available for the mac. I very much miss Sound Forge now that my PC is dead.

[Elogical4now]

I was using Peak before Logic Pro included Soundtrack Pro.

Now I just use Soundtrack Pro and Logic's audio editor. The only thing I really miss about Peak is batch file processing.

[fossaree]

I didn't try yet but ... I ve came across this:
Audio Editor Freeware - Easily and quickly edit audio file, add effects to audio, split audio file.

[junior]

Originally Posted by terminal3

Audiofile Engineering's Wave Editor is worth a look as well. $79 gets you quite a bit for your money...

+1!

[Kenny Gioia]

Freeverse: Mac: Games & Apps: Sound Studio 3


I still use this one all the time

[altruistic8]

DSP Quattro
Audiofile Engineering Wave Editor
BIAS Peak
Sonic Studio SoundBlade
Sonic Studio PMCD
Apple Waveburner/Soundtrack

[TNM]

Twisted wave! It's fantastic!!! Low on features as such but lighting fast to edit with...

[Hint]

There's quite a choice.

I use Amadeus Pro, which is $40:
Amadeus Pro - Audio editor / sound and voice recorder for MacOS X

[chucks]

AudioFinder - Iced Audio :: Home Page

AudioFinder can visualize sounds instantly with the waveform overview and preview them at any pitch via MIDI or the built in keyboard, all in real-time. Sounds can even be previewed through your favorite AudioUnits. Speaking of Plug-Ins, AudioFinder features an advanced Plug-In manager and slew of other studio necessities that will make your workflow flow. Necessities like audio editing with built-in beat detection and tools for fast trimming, fading, slicing and dicing your sounds. You can even convert your audio sample CDs into individual files with just a few clicks of the mouse.

[radic]

Coming from sound forge on a pc to being a mac newbie, what wave editor would give me something similar to sound forge? Wavelab? How does logics wave editor compare to sound forge?

[xgman]

I use amadeus pro and Adobe Audition CS6

[kingocounty]

Originally Posted by radic

Coming from sound forge on a pc to being a mac newbie, what wave editor would give me something similar to sound forge? Wavelab? How does logics wave editor compare to sound forge?

I'm in the same situation and found Audiofile Engineering's Wave Editor to be the closest thing at a decent price. I had a couple of minor hiccups with it but their newest beta is running smoothly on Lion. Two of my main reasons for choosing it were that it uses Izotope's SRC and it supports Mac VST and AU plugins.

[claesbjo]

I use Izotope rx..awesome but maybe too expensive

[skira]

I'm a big fan of Fission for the Mac. Lets you losslessly trim, copy/paste and split MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless, AIFF and WAV.

Rogue Amoeba | Fission: Fast & Lossless Audio Editing For Mac OS X



From the people who also make Audio Hijack Pro, another very nice audio product. I think I even got a discounted price on Fission because I'd already owned AHP, but I'm not sure about that.

[skira]

One more thing: 2 weeks ago Rogue Amoeba posted in its newsletter a sneak peek to an upcoming update to Fission. (Anyone who purchases Fission 1 now will receive a free upgrade to version 2 when it arrives.)

"As far as new features go, this update has several big
ones. Perhaps most importantly, Fission can now transcode
between all supported formats - now you can save an AAC
file to MP3, an AIFF file to AAC, and anything else you
like. We've also added support for the popular FLAC audio
format"

The mock-up for the upcoming version:

[ep1c0ne]

I used to use Soundtrack Pro, but have moved to Audition since Apple discontinued it STP.

[Alex Aliferis]

If you're looking for something affordable and insanely powerful, I also reccomend Wave Editor. I've set it up to do some insane, pseudo-automated editing processes that would take several times longer to perform in other programs.

If extreme ease of use is your priority though, I would look elsewhere.

[kkalnasy]

Wavepad ME, which does scrubbing, spectral analysis and noise reduction as well as editing. $80

[radic]

Would wavelab be considered very similar to sound forge?

[billyb]

I've found that Wave Editor (audiofile engineering) is an affordable, well designed mastering platform. It lets me use all my VST and others p/ins and treats audio as layers. Support is great! I've mastered many video game soundtracks to CD with this system.

[stegdump]

Try Audition. I should be able to answer any questions you have.