moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) (05/03/89)
Several of you may remember that I had some problems using Farallon's audio
digitizer MacRecorder with my SEx last month, particularly when attempting
to play stereo sound through either the SEx's speaker or through the stereo
plug in the back. Well, Farallon kindly sent me a copy of SoundEdit 1.1
(the MacRecorder had come with 1.0), and everything works just great now.
Have to compliment Farallon's customer service -- they're one of the better
companies I've dealt with.
SoundEdit 2.0 will be out in about a month, and I hear that it should be a
pretty substantial upgrade; the changes between 1.0 and 1.1 assure me that
Farallon has a good eye for improving the way their product works. The
thing I enjoy the most about it is a moving "cursor" that shows exactly what
part of the sound file is currently being played (one of SoundWave's better
features). There's a 4:1 compression format (along with *another* sound
format I've never heard of). They also produced a nice little booklet
pointing out a few things that weren't spelled out in the 1.0 manual. For
instance, to "downsample" a sound that has already been recorded (for
instance, from 22kHz to 11kHz), you open a New window, change the sampling
rate to 11kHz, copy the 22kHz sound, and then paste it into the new window,
where it will be re-sampled at 11kHz. And they pointed out that setting the
display units to "sample" is equivalent to displaying length in bytes (for
mono uncompressed sound). That and the lack of the moving cursor were
probably the two things that kept me thinking of returning to SoundWave, so
I guess I'm on SoundEdit for good...
A nice program, and worth the $$...
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