HI-FI-SI Posted February 15, 2001 Share Posted February 15, 2001 I've been using Wavelab to edit samples via SMDI in conjuction with my Emu ESI-4000 sampler--Soon I will be leaving this horrid world of Windows behind and actually upgrading to a Mac. My question is.....which mac editing programs will work as well as Wavelab did w/ my ESI-4000??? I know of BIAS peak, and TC spark I'm just not sure on the SMDI integration in these two programs. Will they work?? IS there something better??? Any help would just be plain diggity---thanx SILAS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bombastique Posted February 15, 2001 Share Posted February 15, 2001 Both of them will work - I haven't used Spark much, but Peak has been pretty darned easy to deal with. You might also consider Soundiver, from Emagic - I've haven't used it in a long while and it's implementation for editing had *one* little thing that ruled it out for me, but that was over a year ago and the new version supposedly addressed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Submersible Posted February 18, 2001 Share Posted February 18, 2001 I'm in the same boat. I've actually stepped up to a Pro Tools TDM system, but I miss the hell out of Sound Forge! I don't use pre-canned loops, so I need to record a minute of audio at a time, get in there really fine, excise what I need, fine tune the timing, and throw what I don't need away. Preferably without dicking around with opening a session, having leftover regions, etc. etc. Are Peak and Spark as intuitive and logical as Sound Forge? Can you apply Audiosuite plugs with them? I can't help but feeling Sonic Foundry could have lifted themselves out of near bankruptcy by offering Acid and Sound Forge for Mac. Not mention CD Architect, which works like a dream. I may catch some flack for this, but most of my Mac friends pay for their software. I've yet to meet someone who actually purchased a retail version of Acid. I'm generalizing, I know. Maybe I need to hear from someone who does sample creation and editing within Pro Tools itself successfully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Fehl Posted February 18, 2001 Share Posted February 18, 2001 I still rely on my old Alchemy program for doing SMDI sample dums to my E-mu and K2000. I have not used Spark or Peak, but I believe that alchemy does a better job with dumps. Passport (developer of Alchemy) went under a while ago so you might have trouble getting a hold of it. I can tell you that it does run fine on a g4 even though it was written for the older 68k processors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderton Posted February 21, 2001 Share Posted February 21, 2001 >>I've yet to meet someone who actually purchased a retail version of Acid.<< May all the music they create with it be immediately ripped off by file-sharing services. Sonic Foundry has gone through some hard times lately because of idiots like the ones you describe. I have a friend who had a cracked version of ACID. I explained the situation that software providers have to work under, and his conscience kicked in - he bought a copy. Too bad he seems to be in the minority. Craig Anderton Educational site: http://www.craiganderton.org Music: http://www.youtube.com/thecraiganderton Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/craig_anderton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 22, 2001 Share Posted February 22, 2001 I agree Craig, Honesty will set you free. I don't want to take this another direction, but I was wondering how do you sync up loops with live audio tracks? Say I have live tracks of a band and we want to add a loop here and there in time with the music ( I here this kind of thing on alot of songs on the radio). Any help would be apreciated. ------------------ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Submersible Posted February 22, 2001 Share Posted February 22, 2001 I don't want to take this another direction, but I was wondering how do you sync up loops with live audio tracks? With Acid, I do the "lo-tech way": I program loops first and play along with them. If you have enough tracks, you can burn the loops to tracks, or you can sync Acid to an ADAT with a JL Cooper Datasync. Now that I have Pro Tools, I record the live stuff first, use the "Identify Beat" command to align the bar and beat markers with the live audio, and paste in loops using Pro Tools grid mode and native TCE abilities. The "Beat Detective" function of Pro Tools 5.1 will make this a cinch, because you can transparently "quantize" audio, insuring that the bar and beat markers will remain precisely aligned throughout the track. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderton Posted February 22, 2001 Share Posted February 22, 2001 >>I don't want to take this another direction, but I was wondering how do you sync up loops with live audio tracks?<< I'm pretty low tech too. I just put the loop in and compare to see whether its tempo is close. If it isn't, I use a time-stretch algorithm to get it to fit. But I make the loops as short as possible, so they don't have time to get out of sync before I re-sync the downbeat to the downbeat of the existing audio. Craig Anderton Educational site: http://www.craiganderton.org Music: http://www.youtube.com/thecraiganderton Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/craig_anderton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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