music editing software (Mac)

Grath

I have a friend who's looking for some good audio editing software for her Mac. She asked me so I figured I'd ask the intertubes because i know dickall about audio editing and macs

saggio

Grath wrote: »

I have a friend who's looking for some good audio editing software for her Mac. She asked me so I figured I'd ask the intertubes because i know dickall about audio editing and macs

Garageband, Logic Express, Logic Pro, Lilypond, Audacity.

The first three are Apple products, while the last two are open source, and should run on Mac.

Gihgehls

It depends on what she is looking for.

Audacity is free, but is more of an audio editor than music creation software.

Max/MSP, is a cool environment for experimental stuff. Lots of those Wii remote hacks use this.

Garageband, while "noobish" has lots of features and can get someone pretty damn far.

Logic Express, sort of a Garageband++ (really, Garageband is like Logic Express Super Lite)

Logic, IIRC this was built by former Pro Tools developers.

Pro Tools, in many ways it is the Adobe Photoshop of audio, or really, the Avid of audio. Pro Tools is the old school, big boy on the block. You'll find it in just about every studio, it is the industry standard. It is also considered by many to be overpriced, out of date, and unnecessary.

EggyToast

There's a ton of shit for most any need. There's less freeware plugins. But her question is like saying "i need to edit photos." Sure there's photoshop, but not everyone wants something that costs that much money for editing red-eye.

Anyway, if she just wants to record, there's GarageBand. If she wants to go a step up, there's Logic Express 8, which is really fantastic (and only $200) for multitrack recording, editing, and so on.

If she's looking for something to load up audio files and edit them, there's Peak, WaveEditor, DSP-Quattro, and a few more. Audacity is pretty meh even on Windows, so I personally don't recommend it to anyone I like.

If she's looking to edit score, there's apps for that too. If she wants to manage a collection of audio files and audition them quickly and easily, with some basic editing features, there's AudioFinder.