mac questions

toasterman

Just tagging this on the end here as I'm not sure where else to put it. I've now owned a Mac for about a month, and I think I've found something to rival Adobe Audition/CoolEdit for sound-editing.

In case someone on here recommended it, I'd like to thank them for suggesting Amadeus Pro.

It does mostly all that Cooledit/Audition does, and while I was optimistically looking for something free, Amadeus is only ~£23 ($40 USD).
The views (on multitrack if nothing else) are better, and the way it can edit sound straight from a disc without ripping it first is very clever.
There's a few things missing - it can't generate dialtones for example, but I use that very infrequently, and I still have a windows machine with Audition on it for anything I can't figure out how to do. It's a lot easier/more refined than Audacity though.

I've not tested its ability to remove noise from clips, but the bits I have used are worth the cost to me.

I did try using Audition through a trial of Parallels, but Windows XP is the only thing so far that crashes on my iMac.


I must praise Amadeus' makers too, because I emailed them for support at 11.30 last night and got a reply before midnight. I replied about 1.30am, and got a reply from someone again within hours. This was before I even bought the software too.

If anyone else out there has been looking for something on a Mac to rival Audition, I'd be happy to bore the life of you talking about Amadeus - my new favourite app...just PM me. I'm not on commission btw

M4RKM

i found the VMWare Fusion is a lot lot smoother than Parallels, so try that.. also make sure when you set either of them up, you allocate 512mb ram, any less it doesn't like it, and any more, it doesn't..