of topic - simple recording and editing for the mac

[Andy Dolph]

Hey folks,

Please excuse this off topic request, but I thought this group would be likely to have good answers.

I'm looking for a very simple, inexpensive, easy to use Mac app that someone can use to record speech and do some very minimal editing.  This is for a smart, but non technical human who wants to do quick and dirty audio recordings to post online.

Ideally something they can open, hit record, make a few small edits (IE trim the beginning and end, or if they flub something badly, they can cut it out) and save a .wav or aiff file.

Obviously Garage Band can do it, but it's so much more than they need or want for this and it means "sharing" rather than "saving" the file which I think is confusing.  So is there something you guys recommend for this kind of thing?

Thanks!

Andy

[Chris Ashworth]

I’m very interested to hear what other folks say, but for what it’s worth I have used and enjoyed Sound Studio:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sound-studio/id405537804?mt=12

-C

[micpool]

This might not be considered inexpensive but...

Twisted Wave with the Speech option actually performs speech recognition on recordings and lays the words against the waveform, which is rather nifty.

Mic

[Gordon P. Howell, Jr.]

Twisted Wave is inexpensive and not overly complex.  It has met my needs for many years.

Geep

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[Philip Perkins]

Reaper or Audacity

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[Alexander (Mailing List) Taylor]

Doesn’t Voice Memos exist on the Mac now?  It has some of that functionality.

Alexander

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[aroom]

Check Ocean Audio https://www.ocenaudio.com

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[Mark Valenzuela]

Amadeus Light is 25 bucks (USD) and does exactly as you describe. Open recorder, select input, set mic level, record, edit, save. Saves the actual file as AIFF or WAV or whatever file format you need. You’re not saving projects and bouncing out like with a DAW. Simple and good, I’ve used both the Light and Pro versions for years. 

Mark

On May 23, 2022, at 12:05 PM, Gordon P. Howell, Jr. <ge...@wa4rts.net> wrote:

Twisted Wave is inexpensive and not overly complex.  It has met my needs for many years.

Geep

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This might not be considered inexpensive but...

Twisted Wave with the Speech option actually performs speech recognition on recordings and lays the words against the waveform, which is rather nifty.

Mic

[Sam Kusnetz]

Ocean Audio looks cool, but I do want to raise a warning flag… the website copyright date is 2015 and the last version of macOS that it claims compatibility with is Mojave (10.15) which came out in 2018.

This doesn’t necessarily mean anything is wrong, but I felt it was worth mentioning in case anyone didn’t notice that.

Best

Sam

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[aroom]

On the download section you’ll get an ARM M1 version for macOS Big Sur and +

https://www.ocenaudio.com/download

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[Philip Glenn]

I like Twisted Wave quite a bit. I use it for voice overs and for audio editing. 

Philip Glenn

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[nat...@ramserv.com]

I like QuickTime for recording and Audacity for simple editing. Both free.

[Andy Dolph]

Thanks everyone!!

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