Comments on: Favorite audio editing software

By: Krasi -LOTE audio studio

Krasi -LOTE audio studio — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:35:37 +0000

On behalf Windows-Audio users. Never tried Audacity, But will give my votes for Wave Lab, as well and Sound Forge. Great flexibility and possibilities allowed! Not agree that the one has no need of investing in Audio editing software, unless the one has no interests in producing professional audio.

By: Media Blog

Media Blog — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 03:13:52 +0000

Unless you’re mixing music or theatrical or broadcast entertainment, I can’t see spending money on any audio software. Audacity is all you need for 99 percent of anything and everything on the web.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:52:24 +0000

I’m stuck on a PC at work and have Audition…not my favorite at all. Interface isn’t real intuitive…and features are hard to find…i.e. rough learning curve when you are trying to teach other people to use it, which I am often doing.

Learned using Pro Tools, which is ok.

The Final Cut Studio is awesome if you have a mac…otherwise, I have to push for Audacity or Cool Edit for ease of use when doing basic editing on the PC…

By: Mindy McAdams

Mindy McAdams — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 13:55:21 +0000

I looked at Soundtrack Pro online, and it seems that it is not available separately from Final Cut Studio -- which is Mac only. If it is, I couldn't find that info.

The interface looks complex, but apparently it matches the interface of Final Cut Pro.

By: dmchenry

dmchenry — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 02:27:50 +0000

We use Audacity on Windows and Macs a ton. We also have a couple Macs with Pro Tools.

By: Mindy McAdams

Mindy McAdams — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:12:21 +0000

Come on, where are my Windows readers? Sheesh, not everyone has a Mac!

By: Alfred Hermida

Alfred Hermida — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 22:01:21 +0000

We have been using a variety of audio editing software at UBC. We’ve found it is to be a little buggy. Garageband is great for mixing as it is simple and easy to use. But for editing and more complicated mixing, we’ve been using Soundtrack Pro, which has everything you need in an audio editor. The negative side is the price as it is part of Final Cut Studio which costs megabucks.

By: joseph hollak

joseph hollak — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 19:30:33 +0000

I am using Soundtrack Pro like Colin.

I find much more powerful than Audacity (I love the normalization script in STP) - although I have Audacity on my laptop as well for the conversion into .mp3 files like to wrote about in your post Minday.

And, like Colin mentioned, it works seemlessly with all of your FCP projects.

And before I acquired the Final Cut Studio that COlin wrote about, I could only afford the Soundtrack Pro package.

So unless something has changed over at Apple, I was able to buy Soundtrack Pro as a stand-alone package AND I qualified for a student discount on that app.

I think I remember the Soundtrack Pro app (stand alone) was $175 for students.

This may have changed and it might only be offered now as a part of the FCP studio package, but worth checking into.

By: Mindy McAdams

Mindy McAdams — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 17:08:10 +0000

Thanks for your awesome comment, Colin! That’s very helpful! I know Final Cut is expensive, but it’s clearly the way to go after you outgrow iMovie, yes?

By: Colin Mulvany

Colin Mulvany — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 16:21:59 +0000

I use Soundtrack Pro, which is part the the killer suite of programs that come with the Mac-only Final Cut Studio. It is still an early version, but I find it does everything I could ever want in a sound editor. It also is integrated with Final Cut Pro 5 so I can round trip my sound files between programs seamlessly. For anyone that is Mac based, Final Cut Studio gives you everything (except Flash) to produce effective multimedia.

Soundtrack Pro also comes with thousands of music loops (Garageband on steroids) as well as ton of special effects loops. I find these are great when I an doing a historical piece and need some ambient sounds such as biplane sounds or a steam whistle etc.

The only bummer for people is that Soundtrack is only available as part of Final Cut Studo which costs a cool $1300.00 bucks. Ouch.