Why Do you Use an Audio Editor?
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- KVRist
- 441 posts since 7 Mar, 2011 from Pleasanton, CA
I use audio editors for offline processing and analysis, for playing music files, for transcoding files—a bunch of things that aren't as easy or possible in Logic.
Amadeus Pro is my general-purpose editor; one thing I use it for is to select a part of a song I'm working on and get its RMS level. It's much faster than hitting play and waiting in Logic.
Many of RX 4's special functions are more accurate and/or easier to use in offline mode in the standalone app than as plugins in Logic, so I often process files offline before importing them into Logic.
Amadeus Pro is my general-purpose editor; one thing I use it for is to select a part of a song I'm working on and get its RMS level. It's much faster than hitting play and waiting in Logic.
Many of RX 4's special functions are more accurate and/or easier to use in offline mode in the standalone app than as plugins in Logic, so I often process files offline before importing them into Logic.
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- KVRAF
- 4590 posts since 7 Jun, 2012 from Warsaw
Don't know how about other DAWs, but Ableton can do all of these directly or indirectly.Audacity) for timestretching, reversing, pitch-shifting, filtering, trimming
I use Audacity pretty much only for converting wav to mp3. Functions like spectrum or clipping detection are also helpful at this stage.
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- KVRAF
- 11506 posts since 13 Mar, 2009 from UK
It's nice to get outDAWS once in a whileDJ Warmonger wrote:Don't know how about other DAWs, but Ableton can do all of these directly or indirectly.Audacity) for timestretching, reversing, pitch-shifting, filtering, trimming
I use Audacity pretty much only for converting wav to mp3. Functions like spectrum or clipping detection are also helpful at this stage.
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- KVRist
- 446 posts since 14 Dec, 2014
Small quick bread and butter tasks:
My fav wave editor is Goldwave, unfortunately no version for Mac. I dislike Audacity
- looking how a short sample looks like
- converting stereo to mono
- restoring vinyl recordings
- Reverse
- deleting silence at the beginning / end of a file
- playback at slower / higher speed (vari-speed)
- normalizing
- exporting a selection to a new file
- conversion to mp3
- Finding parts of a bigger file which can be looped / playback loops
- Fade in / out at the sart / end of a file
- Analyzing (if the tools are there)
My fav wave editor is Goldwave, unfortunately no version for Mac. I dislike Audacity
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- KVRAF
- 11506 posts since 13 Mar, 2009 from UK
Goldwave is a very useful piece of software. I digitised my LP collection and a few cassettes too. Some of the built-in processors are very powerful.
- KVRAF
- 14960 posts since 13 Nov, 2012
Mastering, as well as editing, making CDs, combining tracks, special edits, etc...
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- KVRAF
- 6113 posts since 7 Jan, 2005 from Corporate States of America
Editing audio?
Seriously, a lot of times I need to do small edits that are way easier in a dedicated editor than in Logic's editor. Usually trimming, or fading transitions from non-zero to avoid clicks after some other edit. Sometimes I need to swap channels or convert to mono. Sometimes I want to do weird audio processing that can't be done in a DAW. Sound Forge's Acoustic Mirror is a convolution effect that seems to work very differently than Space Designer, for example. I wish there was a Mac version.
Biggest reason though? GUI. No DAW has ever felt as effective for actual waveform editing. Dedicated tools for specific purposes are typically most effective for them.
Seriously, a lot of times I need to do small edits that are way easier in a dedicated editor than in Logic's editor. Usually trimming, or fading transitions from non-zero to avoid clicks after some other edit. Sometimes I need to swap channels or convert to mono. Sometimes I want to do weird audio processing that can't be done in a DAW. Sound Forge's Acoustic Mirror is a convolution effect that seems to work very differently than Space Designer, for example. I wish there was a Mac version.
Biggest reason though? GUI. No DAW has ever felt as effective for actual waveform editing. Dedicated tools for specific purposes are typically most effective for them.
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- KVRAF
- 5806 posts since 27 Jul, 2001 from Tarpon Springs, Florida, USA
The main difference between a DAW like let's say Cubase and an Audio Editor let's say Samplitude is the later has no midi tracks. The main function of an Audio Editor is to mix and to master. How wrong am I about this?
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- KVRian
- 728 posts since 29 Aug, 2013
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- KVRist
- 272 posts since 28 Nov, 2007 from Dog-shit-ville- FRANCE
I use "Wave pad sound editor"
to convert from 32 bit to 16 bit
to slice or extract parts of audio
to make loops
to convert from 32 bit to 16 bit
to slice or extract parts of audio
to make loops
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- KVRist
- 446 posts since 14 Dec, 2014
An Audio editor should only work on 1 track of audio. If it works on more audio tracks I would call it a DAW.Kalamata Kid wrote:The main difference between a DAW like let's say Cubase and an Audio Editor let's say Samplitude is the later has no midi tracks. The main function of an Audio Editor is to mix and to master. How wrong am I about this?
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- KVRAF
- 35424 posts since 11 Apr, 2010 from Germany
I would say the main functions of an audio editor are mastering, CD production, or editing samples more in depth than you'd be able to do with your built-in DAW's editor. As already has been posted, you can also restaurate old vinyl or tape recordings, edit and process podcasts or speeches and so on. Well, you probably won't need an audio editor anyway, if you need to ask "Why do you use an audio editor?". I don't need one much these days also, but i used to cut a lot of MP3's, create cue-files, or normalize and compress stuff. Nowadays, i mostly use one to archive records.Kalamata Kid wrote:The main function of an Audio Editor is to mix and to master.
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- KVRAF
- 11047 posts since 19 Jun, 2008 from Seattle
I see what you did there.seismic1 wrote:It's nice to get outDAWS once in a whileDJ Warmonger wrote:Don't know how about other DAWs, but Ableton can do all of these directly or indirectly.Audacity) for timestretching, reversing, pitch-shifting, filtering, trimming
I use Audacity pretty much only for converting wav to mp3. Functions like spectrum or clipping detection are also helpful at this stage.
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- KVRian
- 657 posts since 7 Oct, 2005
Yes. And working with MIDI is a main goal of a sequencer.Dúnedain wrote:An Audio editor should only work on 1 track of audio. If it works on more audio tracks I would call it a DAW.Kalamata Kid wrote:The main difference between a DAW like let's say Cubase and an Audio Editor let's say Samplitude is the later has no midi tracks. The main function of an Audio Editor is to mix and to master. How wrong am I about this?
Sequencer -> MIDI
Audio Editor -> editing of 1 track audio, mastering, converting etc.
DAW -> mixing (and "all-in-one" solution ideally)
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- KVRAF
- 35168 posts since 27 Jul, 2005 from the wilds of wanny
Editing, recording, mastering, re-sampling, batch processing, ripping, converting, compiling CDs ...