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Music Editing apps

MinisweeperMinisweeper
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I'm no professional so whatever i use needs to be pretty simple and all i need to do is be able to merge 2 mp3's at a time (cut at various places) into each other. Basically i just need to build a medley of songs but without it sounding too shit and without too much hard work. Any apps you guys would suggest? Preferably free or warez'able.
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  • timberfordtimberford
    Posts: 276
    i use cool edit pro. it has a lot more advanced features than what you are after but is very good.
  • FLCFLC
    Posts: 226
    Price: 299 $ to buy

    Ouch!
  • lechlech
    Posts: 3,235
    http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
  • gigingergiginger
    Posts: 1,010
    I second audacity as a free app.
  • lechlech
    Posts: 3,235
    It's good stuff, however I would like to find more apps like it in terms of composing and mixing up clips and such like acid/garageband which would make things more fun.
  • 3stripe3stripe
    Posts: 1,433
    i reckon you could do this in Flash fairly easily if you were that way inclined.... can't think of any free progs but both of these should have trials: http://www.mixmeister.com/ DJ style mixing/beatmatching/fading of mp3s/wavs http://www.ableton.com/ Probably over qualified for the job you describe but one of the best for live mixing/mashups And yeah Acid is good for mashing up tracks as well
  • gigingergiginger
    Posts: 1,010
    Ableton is so damn good. Version 5 is nigh on perfect for me.
  • KrakKrak
    Posts: 926
    I like Reason, but its not for editing.
  • 3stripe3stripe
    Posts: 1,433
    Yeah big up the Reason Krak! do you write your own tracks in it?
  • KrakKrak
    Posts: 926
    I try, lol.
  • gigingergiginger
    Posts: 1,010
    I also love Reason. 3 is a great upgrade. Still have to record the output in Cool Edit rather than outputting directly.
  • MinisweeperMinisweeper
    Posts: 5,574
    ableton certainly seems very impressive to the untrained eye. It would take me years to get my head round properly but its certainly fun to play with. Shame the demo version doesnt let me save an output? Anyone know a way round this?
  • 3stripe3stripe
    Posts: 1,433
    gingenger, why do you have to record in Cool Edit?
  • gigingergiginger
    Posts: 1,010
    3stripe: I found the quality of the output in Reason still isn't a good enough quality for me. I listen to it in Reason and it sounds fine. Export it and listen and it's just lost a lot of the touches. It's a lot better than it was in 2/2.5 but still not perfect for me. My music isn't great but I'd like to know I was giving it the best chance :D
  • KosmoKosmo
    Posts: 1,135
    Oh you guys must look up to me so much, but what can I say .. I use Adobe Audition (former Cool Edit 2000) for recording and mastering my samples and Propellerhead Reason 3 for making up the masters and recording my organ/electric piano trancks.
  • lechlech
    Posts: 3,235
    Yeah, unfortunatly, not many apps are offered up a good free solution :/
  • MinisweeperMinisweeper
    Posts: 5,574
    Anyone know how to add new codecs to ableton? I'd like to be able to play with flac's with it. Seems a little silly converting them all to mp3 first?
  • lechlech
    Posts: 3,235
    ehh, mini, you never want to transcode like that. If you're aiming for compression, just go straight from the source down to the compressed file, never from the source > one format > final format. That's just wrong :D
  • gigingergiginger
    Posts: 1,010
    I thought that ableton could read Flacs... I'll have to test that tonight.
  • MinisweeperMinisweeper
    Posts: 5,574
    well i'd assumed that i'd be able to edit them as flacs and then export them straight to cd at the end? Wouldnt that be the cleanest way of doing it? It's not like i'm gonna convert them to wma and then back to mp3 or anything...?
  • lechlech
    Posts: 3,235
    ahh, right, nevermind then.
  • MinisweeperMinisweeper
    Posts: 5,574
    So i've got all the songs i need to mix into live and i've selected the bits that i need with start and finish anchors. What i'm having a little trouble with is actually getting it to play through them in series and preferably let me merge them together a little. It's probably staring me in the face but i cant see it...
  • gigingergiginger
    Posts: 1,010
    Have you gone to the arrangement view?

    I'm no authority on it so I can't really help.
  • MinisweeperMinisweeper
    Posts: 5,574
    i went to it but i couldnt seem to achieve much. It looks likei should be able to set it up there but actually doing it is a different matter.
  • gigingergiginger
    Posts: 1,010
    The main thing I've usd it for right now is as a rewire for Reason so I can use some fun audio effects on my tracks.

    I've also done some mixing on it. That just consisted of loading the tracks in as I went with record and then exporting out afterwards :)
  • KrakKrak
    Posts: 926
    what kind of soundcards are you guys using? Me, Audigy2 and some 6.1 speakers ASIO rocks when using Reason (or any other music app for that matter).
  • gigingergiginger
    Posts: 1,010
    I did buy an M-Audio Audiophile card ubt the bastard thing wouldn't install. My XP was a corrupted install it turns out and since moving house I haven't unearthed the box with it in :(

    So I'm using on board audio right now.

    Sucks.
  • KrakKrak
    Posts: 926
    ahhhh! you said the "o" word.
  • MinisweeperMinisweeper
    Posts: 5,574
    I would be using onboard if i could find drivers that worked with anything. As it is i believe i'm using a fantastic c-media 6.1 thing. But i dont really care - i'm editing files i already have not recording anything myself. And i only have 2 speakers to run anyway :(
  • lechlech
    Posts: 3,235
    The onboard sound of this motherboard is probably not much different than your audigy :) it's got 5.1 and all that jazz :D
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