Editing/remixing Software, Freestyle type tape-editing on the Mac Options

[keybie]

I'd like to get started "tape style" editing on my Mac, but so far haven't found much software for this kind of thing.
By editing I'm thinking about the same sort of thing people back in the days used to do with reel-to-reel recordings, splicing tape, repeating small bits and pieces etc. You'd often hear it in 80s "Freestyle" music.

Anyway, I've understood that what I need is software that allows you to divide the song file into sections, or a grid, so as to easier divide the sections you want to edit.
I've found one application which does this called Wave editor, but it costs US$ 250 and seems very advanced and complex, so I was wondering if there is other software available which will do the same sort of thing?

I'm also considering buying Logic express, for multi-track recording my own music, but I suppose it doesn't handle the above kind of editing as well, does it?

Ce message a été modifié par keybie - mar. 20 mars 2007, 15:45.

[DANO10]

Hello Kebie,

Actually I use Digital Performer. Here's what you do. In the EDIT window of your DAW; (1) select a short piece of audio; (2) go to the edit pull down menu thats on that same EDIT window and hit COPY; (3) that short piece of audio has been copied into your copy buffer. Now, where ever you put your cursor and you hit paste from the edit menue, that short piece of audio will be pasted (copied) to an audo track. To get the "stuttering effect" paste several copies one after the other. Check out COPY AND PASTE in yout manual.

If money is problem, that a look at METRO from Sagan and TRACKTION from Mackie - both very good programs.

Hope this helps,

DANO10

[keybie]

Actually I use Digital Performer. Here's what you do. In the EDIT window of your DAW;

This is the kind of editing I've done for years with even free software like Sound effects and Audacity (not editing songs, but audio samples, speeches etc.).
Although editing music this way can be done you can imagine just how complicated it must be when making perhaps hundreds of tiny edits in a song, keeping track of:

a) the exact location where the clip is copied from
b) the exact length of the clip you copied
c) the exact location where you will paste the new clip
d) finding another exact location in the song to extract (with the exact same length as the section you pasted somewhere else), so as to make room for the new clip without "shifting" the rhythm flow.

Yes, I'm sure it can be done (after all, the pioneers of this art-form used 1/4" tape, cutting, splicing and shifting bits around. I'm sure they must have measured (literally, with a ruler) how long a section of say 1 bar would be, then divide it to get the length of the section they wanted to copy/paste etc.).
Just listen to the example MP3 clip I posted earlier and you'll hear just how complex a "multi-edit" or "machine-gun edit" can be.

I was hoping for a better tool for this task than a "normal" audio editor (as in a tool for trimming audio samples, removing or shifting around parts of a speech, normalizing an audio file or adding effects etc.), which in the end is quite different from cut/paste of "stand alone" audio, where it doesn't matter if you "shift" the audio in front or behind the section you're working on around.

Are there any Mac users here who does this kind of multi-editing?

Ce message a été modifié par keybie - mar. 17 avril 2007, 13:24.