Thanks Esther for your answer. I am wanting to convert my vinyl collection to be used on my Mac. I need to remove scratches etc. On my previous PC I either used GoldWave or SoundForge. So will check out the links you provided. Max
On 23 Nov 2013, at 11:53 am, Esther <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Max, > > Amadeus Pro is $59.99 and Amadeus Lite is $24.99. Both versions are > available at the Mac App Store, so you can check prices and reviewers' > comments. However, they also offer a 25% educational discount for students. > Since the Mac App Store cannot handle educational discounts, such purchases > have to be made directly from the developer's web site. Here's the relevan > information from their site: > • Is there an educational discount available? > "Yes, a 25% discount is available for students. Just send an email from your > university address to [email protected] asking for a discount coupon. > It is unfortunately not possible to offer educational discounts through the > Mac App Store, so this voucher only works on the HairerSoft webstore." > > You will almost certainly want to get the Pro version, in order to do > multi-track editing, batch processing, recording Internet streams, and a few > other such functions that are not supported by the Lite version. You can > download trial versions of both Pro and Lite from the web site: > • Amadeus Pro download page: > http://hairersoft.com/pro.html#4 > • Amadeus Lite download page: > http://hairersoft.com/lite.html#4 > > There's also a "How to be Blind" podcast on using Amadeus Pro that Mike did, > and posted about earlier to this list: > http://htb2.com/tag/amadeus-pro/ > There are links to download and play on that page. > > Other popular sound editing software that list users like are Sound Studio > (also available for the Mac App Store) and Audacity (free and cross > platform). I' m cutting and pasting from old mail archive list posts (not > giving the links, because the original thread included Mike's podcast in > Dropbox link that no longer works), so I'll also paste in information about > what Amadeus Pro has that is not in Audacity. (If this reply should be > updated in view of more recent changes, someone can correct me.) Alex asked > what features Amadeus Pro has that are not in Audacity. Some of these > include batch processing, toolbar buttons for adding/splitting/deleting > tracks, fading in/out, and access to metadata/info, ability to join a batch > of files together at once, controls and shortcuts for extending sound to > particular marker-points (demonstrated in Mike's podcast, also in the reply I > wrote to Chris Hallsworth's query about ringtone creation on the > Mac-access list, since this bit is all excerpted from my archived reply to > his post on macvisionaries), more custom controls for trimming silence, > denoising, and automatic splitting (for example, at silence points.) I think > it does better > on multi-channel editing and recording. > > Audacity is a good, free, cross-platform editor, so there are advantages to > using it on multiple operating systems. Amadeus Pro is optimized for the > Mac > GUI. > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
