Need a good audio editing program

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compslckr

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Back in my windows days (about 2 weeks ago lol) I used sony sound forge for my audio editing needs and I am looking for something similar for osX.

I have tried audacity but the clipboard doesn't seem to work ( like i have a file open, then open another mp3 file and copy part of it then go back to the first project and paste is grayed out on the edit menu)

any recommendations? free is great, but i will pay up to $100

thanks,
zac
 
Why not buy iLife, it wouldn't be that horribly expensive. It comes with GarageBand, and that will do a nice job. But, other than that, Audacity is the best, especially for free.
 
my macbook came with garage band but I havn't really played around with it much. but from what I saw it just let you make music from scratch and not edit tracks together etc. maybe I will look into some tutorials for it or something

thanks for the replies so far.
-zac
 
compslckr said:
my macbook came with garage band but I havn't really played around with it much. but from what I saw it just let you make music from scratch and not edit tracks together etc. maybe I will look into some tutorials for it or something

thanks for the replies so far.
-zac
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garageband is suprisingly powerful I have found....mess around with it and youll find it can do a lot of things with audio you wouldn't normally thing a "beginners" audio app would.
although, the icing on the cake is logic express and pro.
 
The dead Spark ME does a great job. Since it's abandonware, I could probably send you a copy of it. It's a bit flakey, but it's rather fast (doing a volume normalization on 20 minutes of audio takes about a second on low-end hardware).
 
Yeah, and if you don't find garageband or audacity to be working for you, Logic Express is the next step up in OSX.

It is only 99 dollars at my University bookstore. I dont' know if you are a student or not though.
 
I use Logic Express. It continually surprises me how much I prefer it to pretty much any other audio program, including Pro Tools.
 
compslckr said:
my macbook came with garage band but I havn't really played around with it much. but from what I saw it just let you make music from scratch and not edit tracks together etc. maybe I will look into some tutorials for it or something

thanks for the replies so far.
-zac
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There's a LOT more to GB than meets the eye. You can edit tracks together.
 
m1dg3t said:
I use Logic Express. It continually surprises me how much I prefer it to pretty much any other audio program, including Pro Tools.
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agreed....once you really spend some time learning the ins and outs of logic, it becomes an intensely powerful audio program.....
 
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