Music Editing Software...

Stridder44 · #1 December 15th, 2003, 07:15 PM

What would some Music editing software be? I have songs I want to kind of mess around with and whatnot.

jarinteractive · #2 December 15th, 2003, 07:21 PM

What do you mean by music editing software?
There is ProTools and Logic that do recording, mixing, etc.
There is Reason that is a software synthesizer and sequencer (and more).

-JARinteractive

mindbend · #3 December 15th, 2003, 07:25 PM

That questions is so wide open, it's nearly impossible to answer. Especially not knowing what your skill level is or isn't in terms of music and technology. For example, do you know the difference between a MIDI file and 44.1 KHz AIFF? Not trying to be a jerk, just trying to see where you're at.

Are you interested in scoring custom music, or just playing with loop-based pre-built stuff? Do you want to just use a digital keyboard or do you want to record some acoustic stuff like guitars, drums and a singer?

I would hesitate to answer until I knew these things.

**fryke** · #4 December 15th, 2003, 07:57 PM

Try SoundStudio. There's a demo (beta) around... Lemme grab the link... Ah, here it is.

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/4811

It's okay for some basic tweaking and/or recording. Sound is like graphics. ;-)

There's vector (MIDI) and bitmap (AIFF, WAV, MP3 etc.) files. SoundStudio is a little 'bitmap' editor.

Arden · #5 December 15th, 2003, 09:30 PM

Sound Studio, as well as Cacaphony, are good programs for recording through a microphone, and doing some basic editing (volume, flanger, etc.). If you want to do more than just play into a microphone, like mix, um, mixes, look for an editing suite like ProTools, Logic Audio, Cubase, or MOTU Digital Performer. Again, Reason is cool for mixing loops and sound effects. And the program I use most of all is called Melody Assistant; for only $15, you get a fully-featured score editor that lets you do all sorts of cool stuff.

Stridder44 · #6 December 15th, 2003, 09:59 PM

"There is ProTools and Logic that do recording, mixing, etc."

This is more of what Im talking about, hehe, sorry to be so vauge

ora · #7 December 16th, 2003, 06:23 AM

Logic and Pro tools are excellent, but are extremely expensive and take a long time to learn. I have watched many of my friends teach themselves logic in the last 4 years (most are successful producers/artists now) and it takes lots of time and angst.
Cubase is supposed to be easier, and designed for people coming out of guitar/rock backgrounds, and these days they can both use the same plugins, so the choice is yours.

Logic Audio 6 Platinum would be the best, (though you HAVE to buy an emagic midi interface if you want to use any midi devices with it- otherwise you get awful latency), so i hope you got some money saved up.

Otherwise, I use sound studio for archiving my vinyl and is perfectly good for that.

ora

skoggis · #8 December 17th, 2003, 08:23 AM

Ori wrote - "Logic Audio 6 Platinum would be the best, (though you HAVE to buy an emagic midi interface if you want to use any midi devices with it- otherwise you get awful latency)"

I don't think that's true. I've used Logic for years now with all kinds of midi interfaces. No problems whatsoever...

Current setup: Logic 6, Edirol UM-880 (8x8 interface) and M-audio FW-410 audio interface.