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Title: Mac track splits?
Post by: joeshambro on February 17, 2004, 03:55:35 PM

Anyone have a better way to do track splits than Peak?  I've been using it but it's a pain in the ass... when it writes the tracks, it writes them to the same filename so I have to be quick and rename each file as it gets written to avoid that problem.. it's a pain in the ass.

I miss being able to use CDRWin, to the point I'm thinking of getting my PC out of storage and using it for that purpose.

Any suggestions?

Title: Re:Mac track splits?
Post by: scb on February 17, 2004, 05:09:22 PM

peak is the worst program ever created.  there are tons of options for you

i recommend either spark or sound studio.

anyway, it can be done in peak, i think you're doing something wrong if it's naming everything the same....but like i said, ditch peak and go to spark or sound studio

Title: Re:Mac track splits?
Post by: John Kelly on February 18, 2004, 11:44:10 AM

Gotta go with Scott on this one.  Spark XL is what I use exclusively, and it works great.  Before that I used Sound Studio (actually paid $50 for a piece of shareware), and it works as well.  The only thing I don't like about SS is that it takes a while to load each recording, whereas once Spark creates and overview file it opens the recordings instantly.

Title: Re:Mac track splits?
Post by: greenone on February 18, 2004, 03:05:47 PM

I haven't been able to get Spark to work on my machine but Sound Studio works great for me - I paid the shareware fee as well and have no regrets. It definitely takes a bit to open the files and process them (normalizing or resampling) but I hardly do any editing to my recordings at all other than the above. My only quarrel beyond the slowness is the inability to zoom in to the sample level - if you want to do that, Sound Studio can't.

But dropping markers doesn't get any easier than Apple-M. :)

Title: Re:Mac track splits?
Post by: scb on February 18, 2004, 03:19:08 PM

>>I haven't been able to get Spark to work on my machine but Sound Studio works great for me - I paid the shareware fee as well and have no regrets.<<

what's the problem again?  i forget

Title: Re:Mac track splits?
Post by: greenone on February 18, 2004, 03:38:00 PM

I'd hit record and it would never actually do anything -  just sit there and blink at me without opening a new file to start recording. But since the software wasn't what was causing my transfer issues (it was some bad RAM), I never looked into it any further...

Title: Re:Mac track splits?
Post by: scb on February 18, 2004, 03:52:12 PM

wonder if the ram had anything to do with it...

Title: Re:Mac track splits?
Post by: greenone on February 19, 2004, 10:39:41 AM

With Spark not working? Hmm. Maybe I'll give it another whirl.