Topic: Any Mac "Audacity" Users?

[RRobar]

In my quest for cheap recording software for the mac I found Audacity. I think I've seen a few talk of it here and there. I was happy to see it was OS X compatiable and the fact it was free. I hooked up the UA-1D and low and behold it worked great. Now I'm wondering if anyone can tell me how to track it out or delete a section. I tried for a while but needed to get to bed. I'll also be needing to downsample as well.  I'll look at it some more tonight, I just thought I'd see if any of you fellow mac geeks have used this.

[John Kelly]

I've used it, and it's nice, but I'd go with Sound Studio for tracking and editing for now.  Only $50, and I paid for it, but if you can find it for free if you so desire.

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[greenone]

I paid for it as well - the trial period is extremely generous. The # of days you can use it isn't contiguous, so you could actually have the program for a few months before you use up the trial period (which is what I did - I'd use it for one day to transfer a shitload of stuff, then take a few weeks to convert it, and start all over again).

The only thing I dislike about SS is that you can't zoom down to the sample level - I'm still using SoundEdit 16 for fixing pops and clicks but might give Audacity a try for that...

--Dave

[crunchy]

how do you know if you are using a trial version of sound studio? It came with my ibook and I upgraded it to the version that will record 24 bit. I think I am using a full version.

[John Kelly]

You have the full version.

[crunchy]

thanks

[RRobar]

I downloaded the trial and I'll have to look into Sound Studio a bit more. Audacity was pretty easy all in all. Just have not had time to look into it all yet.

[Cooker]

i believe you need plugins to downsample with Audacity - and i'm not sure if they are all available for non-windows platforms.