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Cubase SX for Mac OS X is Shipping 32

Posted by pudge from the really-i-swear dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Steinberg's flagship Cubase SX is shipping now, with support for CoreAudio, CoreMidi, VST Plugin support, Rewire, and REXort.
Now only ProTools and Digital Performer are left on the Mac OS 9 side. When do they follow?" Well, ProTools for Mac OS X has already been announced.
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  • Complex tools better? (Score:2, Interesting)

    by lute3 ( 72400 )
    I did some of my best audio editing with 5 - 10 instances of Sound Recorder open while copying/pasting/recording over and over until I got the results I wanted. This kept the entire process mental instead of getting lost in mulit-track timelines.

    Is there a Sound Recorder equivalent for OSX (other than Quicktime)?

    • Personally, I use Cubase for recording MIDI tracks, then turning the mix into audio using VST instruments and effects. I like being able to edit tempo changes and such after the performance. I'm tempted to get the SX upgrade just because I won't have to reboot anymore ... bye bye OS 9 ... oh except Starcraft Carbon stopped working when I went to Jaguar ... I think that's when it stopped working ... oh well. And hey ... to me SX may be simpler than VST, since I don't have to use OMS anymore.
    • Is there a Sound Recorder equivalent for OSX?
      While I'm not familiar with Sound Recorder, I have to recommend Felt Tip Sound Studio [felttip.com]. It is an amazingly simple and powerful audio tool that I think would fit your needs nicely.
    • I did some of my best audio editing with 5 - 10 instances of Sound Recorder open while copying/pasting/recording over and over until I got the results I wanted. This kept the entire process mental instead of getting lost in mulit-track timelines.

      That's fine if you just want to mix some audio tracks together. Cubase is not meant to be an audio editor. But for complex songs that wouldn't work well.

      I use Cubase VST/32. I use VST instruments for drum tracks, and keys, record all the guitar and bass tracks, usually as segments, sort of like working with a drum machine.

      This makes arraigning the song quite easy! Also Cubase has all kinds of effect plug-ins, etc.,

      I still use an external editor most of the time (either PeakDV or SparkME when in OS X) for loops and stuff.

      I've been waiting for this upgrade, it will be nice to not have to boot into OS 9.2 to work on music. :)

    • Try audacity. http://audacity.sf.net

  • DP for OS X announced months ago (Score:2)

    by Anonymous Coward
    http://www.motu.com/english/other/press/dp_osx/dp_ osx.pdf

    I forgot my passwd, it's been so long since I posted. Anyways, they've had it running for a while, I think they're still working on hardware drivers (all of their midi and audio drivers for X are still listed as BETA, I think).

    -FreqUnkn

  • No no no no! (Score:4, Interesting)

    by Triv ( 181010 ) on Friday October 11, 2002 @03:04PM (#4434109) Journal
    Now only ProTools and Digital Performer are left on the Mac OS 9 side

    [rant] Am I the only composer on the face of the planet who wants Finale [codamusic.com] to be ported to OS X? It's an industry standard for producing professional-quality scores. Their website says "Runs under classic mode," which I translate into "too much hassle to port." But there's a 2003 version. ARGH. [/rant]

    Triv
  • Actually Digital Performer has a press [motu.com] release ages ago about the Max OS X version that's coming. It should be released before year end.
  • I am a mac convert from the Unix side, actually inherited by Apple as an NeXT user. I am interested in a tool for recording my old vinyl, cleaning up pop, click, hiss, etc, and saving each track as aiff files, which I can then listen to in iTunes, and burn to CD for my car. This tool seems like overkill for me, but I though people posting on this topic may know of other software that would work well for my purposes. BTW: no Classic or OS9 app need apply. Bonus points for good use of services,or scriptability.

    • Roxio Toast (Score:2, Informative)

      by foo12 ( 585116 )
      Roxio Toast [roxio.com] comes bundled with an app called CD Spin Doctor --- it does exactly what you want:

      Do you still have old cassette tapes or vinyl LPs? Use CD Spin Doctor, included with Toast 5 Titanium, to turn those scratchy records or cassette tapes into high fidelity CDs. Here are just a few CD Spin Doctor features:

      • Records from any analog source (phonograph, tape, or microphone)
      • Special sound filters eliminate noise, pops, hisses, and clicks
      • Enhancement filters convert mono to stereo and boost Bass or Treble
      • Wave form display with zoom in and zoom out capabilities
      • First, thanks for trying to help.

        I purchased roxio and tried it out in 10.1 months ago and was quite disappointed. Spin Doctor records an album to one large file, and only supports writing to CD rather than to a sequence of aiff files.

        Spin Doctor also required that I record, run filters, mark begin and end for tracks, add title info, and burn to cd, all in sequence. Several times the program crashed and I had to start over with a new recording.

        As a FreeBSD and OpenStep user I found the tool to be shoddy and to have that somehow condescending stink of Carbon. Tools should do one or a few things well, and read/write using standard types. Roxio and Spin Doctor did do one or two things well, but did not allow me to do anything else using other tools unless I burned a CD, read it back in as aiff then processed those files before burning the CDs I eventually want. It also used lots of cpu when idle and crashed several times.

        I would rather spend my money on a fleet of separate applets, each reliable and each performing one task well, than spend any money on an app which may do a couple of things well but which wastes my time by enforcing its idea of workflow on me. I also have no patience for tools which do not support services and standards thus making it either hard or impossible to use it to perform only the parts of the job it does well.

        Sorry for the rant, but I've been quite pissed off recently by the really shoddy quality of some big name carbon apps. I've used Appkit apps since 1991, and can see and feel the difference.

        So are there any tools out there which I can use to record albums, split them into aiff files and perform filtering? I'll use iTunes to listen and record to CD. Again, 100% Cocoa is a plus obviously. Despite the above rant I am open to using a really good little Carbon tool, but I'll take some convincing.

        • Saw this just now -- http://www.griffintechnology.com/software/software _imic.html -- specifically the beta for "FinalVinyl"
          Final Vinyl 0.6 - beta Free OS X audio recording application for use with the Griffin family of audio products. Has several advanced features including equalization and built in RIAA curves*.
          It's just a beta and requires Griffin's iMic [griffintechnology.com], a USB breakout that does audio-in. Once the software is out of beta, this seems to be exactly what you need :-) * yes, RIAA curves --- it's simply in reference to a standard employed by the industry, no nefarious evil DRM --- it's freaking vinyl after all

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