As an old Cakewalk and Sonar user, I am wondering if it is possible in this new Bandlab edition of the software to add an external audio editor such as Sound Forge under the "utilities" menu for Quick editing of wave files? I have searched but have not been able to find anything covering this topic.
I cannot find a section in the preferences to set the directory of an external audio editor. Reading the reference manual there is an option in Cakewalk.ini - ToolTempFileDir. But I can't seem to get it to work.
I realized this as I stumbled upon this:
-Base/2007013099/Adding-third-party-audio-editing-software-to-SONARs-Utilities-menu
I manually edited the registry, and while doing so I remembered that this is the way we were doing it back in the days aswell!
It would be nice for people who own Adobe Audition, Wavelab, Sound Forge and similar editors to have a function to open an audio file in one of those external editors, with file sharing enabled, directly from Studio One, and any edits done in them automatically updated in Studio One's timeline and file when the external edit is saved and closed.
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I'm not of sound mind. I do not own a decent microphone and I am not an audio engineer. I do not record music or podcasts. I simply have thousands of audio files, captured and collected over a lifetime, that sometimes need just a bit of attention.
When I transitioned to the Mac in 2013, I gave up Sound Forge and began my hunt for a new audio editor. I discovered Amadeus Pro. I purchased the product and found it very accessible. I loved gliding smoothly through the timeline, reviewing slivers of sound, and being able to freely trim or extend my selections. The batch processing capabilities turned out to be great. I also enjoyed the embedded effects and being able to hear the consequences of any action before moving ahead. Sweet stuff.
Ferrite is the most accessible audio editor that I have found for the iPhone. I can load and manipulate my large sound files. I know how to mark off segments in a track, and then copy, move, or delete the clips. I can bring in new tracks, manage my transitions, and save my work. When I have sent in questions to Ferrite customer support, I have been very pleased with the quick, friendly, and informative responses.
I love having an audio editor on my iPhone, one that can handle the size and variety of files in my sound library. Ferrite is the first product that has been able to meet most of my needs. Ferrite does not yet have all the features or power that I have experienced on a desktop, but having it with me everywhere, in my pocket, makes it a very valuable tool. Great products take time and effort to evolve. Because I have seen a commitment to VoiceOver accessibility, I choose to be very hopeful that Ferrite will become an even better iPhone app that we can use for all of our sound editing needs. For now, Ferrite requires some extra effort to get things done. That works for me. A lot of fun often takes a little work. Like dancing in sand.
When I taught myself how to use the product, I lived inside of the Ferrite documentation available in the app. There are sections for VoiceOver and Bluetooth keyboards, which really helped, but I reread the entire manual many times to keep learning new tricks as I picked up expertise. For me, I found using a Bluetooth keyboard the easiest way to do sound editing. In fact, I never do any audio editing by fingertip. I'm a Bluetooth keyboard kind of guy.
Hi,
I've had ferrite for a while, but I'm just now going more in depth with it. I have a radio aircheck with commercials, and I'd like to edit the commercials out. I know how to split clips and then tighten things at the end to remove the silence. I'm at a total loss of how to move through the file in tiny increments. I know there's a keyboard gesture for this, but it's not fair, I shouldn't have to take a keyboard with me to edit audio. For example, I have one file that's an hour long, when I swipe up on the timeline, it moves in increments of three and four minutes, some of the commercial breaks are only one or two minutes, which makes it super awkward to just speed through the file and split where I need to split. So I guess what I'm asking is is there an alternate gesture where I can advance the timeline in finer increments?
Thanks
Hi, Morgan.
I'm using Ferrite 2Pro. I don't have a Mac or a Bluetooth keyboard, just an iPhone and this neat app that I can maybe make audio podcasts with.
I've read the VoiceOver sections, but I'm not sure how to work with deleting clips. One thing I want to do is delete VoiceOver speaking. "Speech off" is not a great way to start a podcast, right?
Plus, I have an upbeat song, that I want to fade in and out at the beginning and end of each 'cast. Ep 1 is in the making, but I still can't get the hang of it.
Back in the day, I played with tape recorders: editing, adding applause from records I had to my songs so it sounded like I was singing to large crowds; and creating tiny leprechaun voices by unplugging the tape recorder, speaking normally, then plugging it back in again. The unplugged sound was a tiny little voice. The plugged sound was my own. Did I mention I was nine then?
About a dozen years later, convinced I wanted to enter the music biz, hopefully to marry my favorite celeb, ha ha, I learned how to multi-track on a Fostex. I wrote my own songs, sang all the harmonies, and stuff. Then I sent my love ballad to my celebrity love, who didn't marry me, but who did phone me twice. No word of a lie!
Now I'm messing with Ferrite. My ultimate goal is to make video 'casts for my light-dependent friends, and to show off my ugly mug.
In the meantime, I'm okay with audio. Only, like I said, I haven't got that edit thing down, even though I read the instructions.
Do you know of a community of Ferrite users who know how to do this better than I?
I appreciate any help available.
Thanks,
Thea
I like Ferrite, and still use it when I do audio editing, but I have not done a major project in quite some time. And, I do not have any ties to a community of other Ferrite users. However, you might try sending a note to the developer and ask if they are aware of a Ferrite users group or mailing list that you might join.
Ok, so here's the deal. I recorded a TV show at my house, had it upload to dropbox, then I figured I'd edit the commercials out while I'm on the go, just to prove I could do it. I was able to do that, very successfully, I'm used to ripple deleting and splitting sections with ferrite, but the volume on my cable box is low, so how can I increase the gain of the audio by approximately 8 DB (that's how much it takes with amadeus)? I see in the effects category, there's a "warm amplifier", is that what I need?
PS. this is an mp3 file, no video on it at all, just audio.
Thanks for any help.
You can apply effects where even applying it once would be too slow or awkward to process in realtime. Hokusai can flip audio backwards, or stretch it faster or slower than the original audio, and perform other commands that require it to analyse the entire duration of the audio before it even begins.
I recently went from Windows 7 to Windows 10. And I have this problem: I can no longer drag and drop files from Mp3tag to Sony Sound Forge audio editor and I also cannot send them to it from via the Mp3tag File > Options > Tools feature
The problem comes to this: one software is run as administrator and the other is not. At least that is the explanation that I have found on the Internet to this apparently common problem with various pieces of software; and which explenation is confirmed by my tests
On my system I have one User and that User is the administrator. I have Mp3tag pinned down to the Windows Taskbar. The Mp3tag icon on Taskbar has 2 playlists pinned to it. And by default it works like this: if I want to open Mp3tag I can either left click the main icon on the Taskbar or right click the very same icon to unfold the short menu- and then left click one of the two playlists or the additional icon for the Mp3tag EXE itself. So after that, in either case, if I have files in the main window of Mp3tag and want to select them and drag them to my audio editor I can do that only in theory- because in reality nothing will happen [except for an occasional show up of the hour glass for a split second]. Also if I execute the simple File > Options > Tools entry