Waveburner Pro For Osx?, Does anyone have insight as to when? Options

[subscotty]

In the process of switching from PC/SonicFoundry (doing compilations) to PowerBook/Motu828/?? (recording live DJ set from CDJ600 mixer) and believe that WaveBurner Pro is the best program for what I want to do, but the OSX version is in a nebulous state of release. Does anyone have connections at eMagic that could shed some light. I don't want to wait 9 months for that baby. Is there another good OSX CD burning tool that allows you to include CD Text data?

On a slightly related topic, does anyone feel like sharing their insight on recording software? I could, of course, drop another huge chunk of change and get Logic Platinum 6, but that might be MAJOR overkill for me. I don't want to do any Midi (at least, not right now), but I do want to record, and edit waveforms... I don't want to settle for lesser quality, but don';t want to buy extra functionality if I don't have to (sometimes you can only get the quality if you also buy the functionality because manufacurers bundle the two insted of just making all their products of the same quality caliber, and just letting folks upgrade to more capability. Am I wrong?)

Many, many thanks, guys... first round's on me if we can solve these issues (Who's in DC?)

subScotty

[rickenbacker]

As a DJ, have you looked at Native Instrument's Traktor DJ Studio 2.0 (not plain vanilla Traktor 2.0). It seems to have a lot of cool track and CD-burning features. You can also send your mix out to Roxio's Toast With Jam, another great CD-burning bundle. All these apps feature mastering FX, professional subcodes, track info etc and all work in OS X.

If you want to record music, it depends on how simply you want to do that. If you bought Toast With Jam, say, you'll get Bias Peak LE bundled with it. That's a 2-track stereo wave editor/recorder, which can also use VST effects. Pretty good. I use that sometimes, but I use Felt Tip software's Sound Studio more often. A new version, 2.5, is out in April I believe. $49 or so - really good.

Both LE and Sound Studio operate at 16-bit, 44.1KHz. If you want 24-bit, you'll need the full version of Peak (couple of hundred dollars) or Spark XL (ditto). Both load up on extra features for the money, though. Talking of Spark, there's also Spark ME which is free. That's like LE or Sound Studio.

For more serious recording needs, check out the Getting Started forum here - LOADS of posts along the lines of "which sequencer?"