Audio software for laptop ?

oldaudio · Post by **oldaudio** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 7:09 am

I have been a Creamware TripleDat/Scope user for 10 years. I now find myself on the road and need a good multitrack audio editor for laptop use. I don't use lots of effects,loops,or synths. Pretty much straight forward editing. I have
HP 2.7g P4, 2gb ram. Suggestions appreciated.
Thnaks,Mike

petal · Post by **petal** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 9:39 am

I've been using Audition since the old Cool Edit days. I've tried out a few other editors like the very popular Sound Forge and Wave Lab, and also the free Audacity, but I always came back to Audition (Cool Edit). I guess old habits dies hard

I've been using it on my laptop too without any problems what so ever.

I never upgraded my audition 1.5 version to the newer 2.0. They changed the interface and layout of the editor. Whether it is for the better or not, I never really cared to check since version 1.5 does what I need.

oldaudio · Post by **oldaudio** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 10:17 am

I looked at Audition, I think it was something like 500MB. I also looked at Sony Acid
and it was something like 100MB. That seems to indicate that Audition would have lots of stuff I don't need. They both have 30 day trials. I am testing Acid now.
I was somewhat familiar with Vegas and thought Acid would be similar. I guess I should give Audition a try.
Thanks

petal · Post by **petal** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:28 am

My audition version 1.5 installation is 34MB.

The program comes with a DVD full of loops and samples of different kind, the link you have been looking at might have had a sample of the loop/sample-library?

Also, one last thing, from what I have gathered, it seems that Sound Forge is the industry standard out there, at least in the game sound design industry.

Good luck!
Thomas

darkrezin · Post by **darkrezin** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 12:15 pm

You should have a look at Reaper - www.cockos.com

Sound Forge 9 apparently has multitrack capabilities. I haven't tried it so I don't know how it works (logically it should be an audio-only version of Vegas but I guess you should try it to verify).

Reaper seems pretty unbeatable for the price though.

Micha · Post by **Micha** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 3:22 am

WaveLab Lite. Comes with CLEAN, and some soundcards etc.
It writes directly to disk. You open the folder, name the file and push record.
Can do 24bit.
That's the problem with Audition/Cool Edit. It uses a tempfile. To much copying.
A good free solution is Kristal. (ASIO support!)