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Title: Fission - CD Wave for OS X!
Post by: Patrick on August 18, 2008, 12:09:13 AM
I found a new piece of software today that is very similar to CD Wave, but designed for Mac (Tiger and Leopard OS's).

Unfortunately, it's not free.  You can upgrade to the full version for $32.  I am going to buy it, it looks to be by far the easiest and lightest tracking program that I've seen, without having to open a full editing suite just to split files.  You can also normalize, rename, and add metadata to the resulting files.  Pretty cool- very easy to use on the fly or quickly scrolling through the wave.

Also, the trial is very limited-- it will put fades in your saved files, so it's useless beyond trying it out.

(http://www.rogueamoeba.com/fission/images/iconLogo.jpg) (http://rogueamoeba.com/fission/)
Title: Re: Fission - CD Wave for OS X!
Post by: page on August 18, 2008, 01:20:05 AM
Slick! +T
Title: Re: Fission - CD Wave for OS X!
Post by: Brian Skalinder on August 18, 2008, 12:23:59 PM
Unfortunately, it's not free.  You can upgrade to the full version for $32.

CD-Wave isn't free, either - it, too, has a small license fee to pay.  Well worth it for such handy programs.  Nice find!
Title: Re: Fission - CD Wave for OS X!
Post by: Patrick on August 18, 2008, 07:51:49 PM
Unfortunately, it's not free.  You can upgrade to the full version for $32.

CD-Wave isn't free, either - it, too, has a small license fee to pay.  Well worth it for such handy programs.  Nice find!

Yes, I knew this.  I haven't run a PC in years so it usually slips my mind.
Title: Re: Fission - CD Wave for OS X!
Post by: MattD on August 18, 2008, 09:10:03 PM
24/96 wave capable? Can it handle files > 2 GB?
Title: Re: Fission - CD Wave for OS X!
Post by: Patrick on August 18, 2008, 09:11:19 PM
24/96 wave capable? Can it handle files > 2 GB?

Haven't tried-- I'll check it out now and report back...
Title: Re: Fission - CD Wave for OS X!
Post by: taper420 on August 19, 2008, 10:44:28 AM
Am I the only mac user that uses CD Spindoctor?
It's not free either, but it comes with Toast, which I thought every mac user has.
It's also a pretty close clone to CD-Wave.

Nice find though.
Title: Re: Fission - CD Wave for OS X!
Post by: hummat on August 19, 2008, 11:11:20 AM
D'oh! Spindoctor.  Forgot all about that little add-on app.  Will have to re-visit it.

-jay
Title: Re: Fission - CD Wave for OS X!
Post by: Patrick on August 19, 2008, 06:33:24 PM
24/96 wave capable? Can it handle files > 2 GB?

Haven't tried-- I'll check it out now and report back...

Well, the program run 24/96 with no problems!  My recorder splits at 2gb so I didn't have any files >2gb to test with.  Sorry.
Title: Re: Fission - CD Wave for OS X!
Post by: MattD on August 19, 2008, 07:09:40 PM
Sounds promising. Mine splits at 2GB too, but if I want to combine several before splitting, I want to know that I can. I can always name those tracks XXa and XXb and combine after the fact if necessary. +T for the find!
Title: Re: Fission - CD Wave for OS X!
Post by: Sebastian on November 13, 2009, 09:47:33 AM
I just tried this program and I couldn't find a way to split my 24 bit files. Am I just too stupid or does Fission not support 24 bit files?
Title: Re: Fission - CD Wave for OS X!
Post by: printguy on November 13, 2009, 12:25:47 PM
I just tried this program and I couldn't find a way to split my 24 bit files. Am I just too stupid or does Fission not support 24 bit files?
What did you do?

I just opened a 2Gb 24bit WAV file with Fission, put the "cursor" where I wanted to split the tracks and then pressed Command+T to add the split. Worked as it always does for me.
Title: Re: Fission - CD Wave for OS X!
Post by: Sebastian on November 13, 2009, 01:20:17 PM
What did you do?

I just opened a 2Gb 24bit WAV file with Fission, put the "cursor" where I wanted to split the tracks and then pressed Command+T to add the split. Worked as it always does for me.

My source file was a 4.2 GB 24bit/96kHz CAF file (exported from Logic) and it would only recognize that as 16 bit. Unfortunately, Logic does not let me use any other file format like WAV because the resulting file would be over 2 GB.

I ended up just saving the .cue file from Fission and I used another program to convert the CAF to one giant FLAC file. I wrote myself a small Perl script that used the .cue file to convert each track to WAV individually. Needless to say I don't want to do this for every show that I tape, so I'm looking for other options now.
Title: Re: Fission - CD Wave for OS X!
Post by: nic on November 13, 2009, 02:12:14 PM
What did you do?

I just opened a 2Gb 24bit WAV file with Fission, put the "cursor" where I wanted to split the tracks and then pressed Command+T to add the split. Worked as it always does for me.

My source file was a 4.2 GB 24bit/96kHz CAF file (exported from Logic) and it would only recognize that as 16 bit. Unfortunately, Logic does not let me use any other file format like WAV because the resulting file would be over 2 GB.

I ended up just saving the .cue file from Fission and I used another program to convert the CAF to one giant FLAC file. I wrote myself a small Perl script that used the .cue file to convert each track to WAV individually. Needless to say I don't want to do this for every show that I tape, so I'm looking for other options now.

are you sure Fission can even open a CAF file?if not, there's your answer...
Title: Re: Fission - CD Wave for OS X!
Post by: Sebastian on November 13, 2009, 03:03:25 PM
are you sure Fission can even open a CAF file?if not, there's your answer...

Well, it *did* open it and display the wave form and all... :D