Re: [Finale] OT: Shareware Multitrack Audio App for Mac?

2005-06-24 Thread Darcy James Argue
Thanks, Don. Audacity was *exactly* what I was looking for. On a related note, though, I was surprised how much tempo drift there was between the two audio tracks I recorded. I know GPO sometimes drops frames when it gets overloaded (resulting in an accel. effect), so I tried splitting the

Re: [Finale] OT: Shareware Multitrack Audio App for Mac?

2005-06-24 Thread Darcy James Argue
Actually, it occurs to me that the other possibility (even if Native Instruments can't work out how to get their software to run acceptably on PPC machines) would be if _Finale_ included an option to freeze tracks (i.e., bounce to audio). I know everyone always complains about sequencer

Re: [Finale] OT: Shareware Multitrack Audio App for Mac?

2005-06-24 Thread Don Hart
Glad Audacity worked for you - sorry to hear about the other problems. Seems like the barline would be the perfect point of reference to keep that sort of thing from happening. If I had to vote, I'd choose Human Playback as the culprit over GPO. Sometimes, when I play back a section of a file

Re: [Finale] OT: Shareware Multitrack Audio App for Mac?

2005-06-24 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Don, When I saved to audio in four passes (i.e., ww's, brass, perc, and strings) and tried to align them, the tempo drift seemed to happen almost exclusively during long rests -- i.e., the percussion would come in several beats too early. (I'm telling you, it's just like real life!)

Re: [Finale] OT: Shareware Multitrack Audio App for Mac?

2005-06-24 Thread Randolph Peters
Hi Darcy, I think that to solve your problem, you may have to learn a few more software programs. I think that HP is responsible for your differences in takes. Audio drift would be much more subtle (phasing maybe, but not off by whole beats). I would recommend that you first get a MIDI file

Re: [Finale] OT: Shareware Multitrack Audio App for Mac?

2005-06-24 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 24 Jun 2005, at 9:10 AM, Randolph Peters wrote: Hi Darcy, I think that to solve your problem, you may have to learn a few more software programs. I think that HP is responsible for your differences in takes. Audio drift would be much more subtle (phasing maybe, but not off by whole

Re: [Finale] OT: Shareware Multitrack Audio App for Mac?

2005-06-24 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 11:56 AM 6/24/05 -0400, Darcy James Argue wrote: Audio drift in GPO is, unfortunately, *not* subtle -- like I said, when GPO gets overloaded, it drops *lots* of frames -- often entire beats Does this same problem occur when you send the entire document to an audio file? I know that the studio

Re: [Finale] OT: Shareware Multitrack Audio App for Mac?

2005-06-24 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 24 Jun 2005, at 12:16 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: At 11:56 AM 6/24/05 -0400, Darcy James Argue wrote: Audio drift in GPO is, unfortunately, *not* subtle -- like I said, when GPO gets overloaded, it drops *lots* of frames -- often entire beats Does this same problem occur when you

Re: [Finale] OT: Shareware Multitrack Audio App for Mac?

2005-06-24 Thread Phil Daley
At 6/24/2005 12:40 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: On 24 Jun 2005, at 12:16 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: At 11:56 AM 6/24/05 -0400, Darcy James Argue wrote: Audio drift in GPO is, unfortunately, *not* subtle -- like I said, when GPO gets overloaded, it drops *lots* of frames -- often entire

Re: [Finale] OT: Shareware Multitrack Audio App for Mac?

2005-06-24 Thread Randolph Peters
At 11:56 AM -0400 6/24/05, Darcy James Argue wrote: On 24 Jun 2005, at 9:10 AM, Randolph Peters wrote: Hi Darcy, I think that to solve your problem, you may have to learn a few more software programs. I think that HP is responsible for your differences in takes. Audio drift would be much

Re: [Finale] OT: Shareware Multitrack Audio App for Mac?

2005-06-24 Thread Michael L. Meyer
A quick brainstorming-type suggestion, Darcy -- if the saving of audio in the four passes and moving it to Audacity worked, and you just want the multimeasure rests to get out of the way, is it possible for you to configure each pass with one or two instruments from each family playing in

Re: [Finale] OT: Shareware Multitrack Audio App for Mac?

2005-06-24 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hey Mike, That's also a pretty good idea. I may try that next time. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 24 Jun 2005, at 9:15 PM, Michael L. Meyer wrote: A quick brainstorming-type suggestion, Darcy -- if the saving of audio in the four passes and moving it to Audacity worked,

[Finale] OT: Shareware Multitrack Audio App for Mac?

2005-06-23 Thread Darcy James Argue
Okay, it's that time... I need to make an audio demo of an orchestration I've written. As those of you who have GPO for Mac know only too well, my 1.42 GHz Mac mini doesn't have nearly enough horsepower to drive GPO through a large orchestral score ( / 4331 / Timp+Perc / Harp / Solo Vln

Re: [Finale] OT: Shareware Multitrack Audio App for Mac?

2005-06-23 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 23 Jun 2005, at 11:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 6/23/05 10:18:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now I need to combine the two audio files in a basic multitrack audio editor.  But I don't currently own a basic multitrack audio editor.  So -- suggestions?  Cheap

Re: [Finale] OT: Shareware Multitrack Audio App for Mac?

2005-06-23 Thread Don Hart
Darcy, If I have an accurate understanding of what you need and what this program will do, Audacity is what you're looking for. I haven't yet needed to do what you're doing, but in my time with the program it was very intuitive. My experience observing guys use ProTools seemed to help me get