I am looking for, or trying to figure out is there software to edit music, what I mean is to edit out profanity in songs, make a clean version of a song.
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Editing Software
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Look into Cool Edit
LasVegasRadioJunky said:Look into Cool Edit
Cool Edit was replaced by Adobe Audition a loooong time ago.
I used Cool Edit for at least 12 years. I put off paying the price and upgrading to Adobe Audition when Adobe bought the rights to Cool Edit. I see places on the Internet where supposedly you can download a "hacked" version of Cool Edit but you won't be legal. If you plan to do serious work.... something more than one session of one set of songs you want to clean up... I can assure you the Audition, even though it looks just like Cool Edit in so many ways, and uses about the same menu system, etc., the performance is SO MUCH BETTER! Go for the real thing with Audition if you can make the jump. One improve alone is worth the price: In Cool Edit the 'noise reduction' feature was very fragile. Get too aggressive with it and the artifacts became audible and it would sound like the sound was being forced through a fire-hose or something.
Many of us work with a recording space that has a residual, ambient noise. This time of the year the furnace at the other end of the building may put rumble in your voice recordings. I am just amazed how aggressive I can get with noise reduction before it shows up as a problem in Audition.
The other feature that I only recently learned to use effectively has to do with displaying sound in the SPECTRAL view. (Normally I use waveform which looks like an oscilloscope.) Spectral is a weird abstract view of sound in colors of strange shapes and patterns. Thumps and bumps show up and you can "lasso" them much like using a photo editor to take a little red pimple off someones cheek in a picture. I do a lot of church sermons. Babies reach up and grab the mic because it looks like a binky. Speech plosives are common. I take them all out just like you are wanting to take elements including profanity out of music recordings.
Pro-Tools seems to be the favorite of some people and I have never used it. It may be overkill for what you want to do. Our friends who are comfortable with Audacity will tell you that Audition may be overkill. I don't know. I have been trying to get up to speed on Audacity lately so I can mentor some newer editors who can not make the jump financially to Audition. I'm not convinced Audacity has the power that Audition has.... unless you scour the world for 3rd party VST plug-ins.
P.S. If I didn't make it clear..... I think for editing audio.... Audition IS THE BERRIES!
Many of us work with a recording space that has a residual, ambient noise. This time of the year the furnace at the other end of the building may put rumble in your voice recordings. I am just amazed how aggressive I can get with noise reduction before it shows up as a problem in Audition.
The other feature that I only recently learned to use effectively has to do with displaying sound in the SPECTRAL view. (Normally I use waveform which looks like an oscilloscope.) Spectral is a weird abstract view of sound in colors of strange shapes and patterns. Thumps and bumps show up and you can "lasso" them much like using a photo editor to take a little red pimple off someones cheek in a picture. I do a lot of church sermons. Babies reach up and grab the mic because it looks like a binky. Speech plosives are common. I take them all out just like you are wanting to take elements including profanity out of music recordings.
Pro-Tools seems to be the favorite of some people and I have never used it. It may be overkill for what you want to do. Our friends who are comfortable with Audacity will tell you that Audition may be overkill. I don't know. I have been trying to get up to speed on Audacity lately so I can mentor some newer editors who can not make the jump financially to Audition. I'm not convinced Audacity has the power that Audition has.... unless you scour the world for 3rd party VST plug-ins.
P.S. If I didn't make it clear..... I think for editing audio.... Audition IS THE BERRIES!
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The Beave
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Although Audition is great I perfer Protools 8 by digidesign. It takes a little bit to learn it.. but it has some real awesome transparency.. A great tool for those Production Gurus.
easyfm said:LasVegasRadioJunky said:Look into Cool Edit
Cool Edit was replaced by Adobe Audition a loooong time ago.
Some of us may continue to be plagued by amnesia of the last 8 years. Oh, Adobe! I love their funny pictures!
The Beave said:Although Audition is great I perfer Protools 8 by digidesign. It takes a little bit to learn it.. but it has some real awesome transparency.. A great tool for those Production Gurus.
The reason I mentioned Protools in my post is because I have read so many reviews like yours that indicate that if you need the extra features and powers.... and learn how to use them.... Protools indeed must be a superior product.
I've never had my hands on it so I can only observe what others, like yourself, have to say about it. The other product that gets good reviews by people who are doing recording of music in "real studios" as compared to the somewhat primitive voice-over facilities is Nuendo. I have never read where anyone doing voice tracks, radio production, etc. was promoting Nuendo for that purpose.
So the question I have for you, Beave, is this: For people doing mostly recording of spoken voice, does Protools offer features and/or quality that justifies the extra cost and extra learning curve, or do you need to be manipulating the music in commercials or documentaries that make use of qualities you have referred to as "transparency"?
How does someone realize that the time has come to go beyond Audition (or Audacity) and move up to Protools?
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The Beave
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Goat,
In a world.... (my respect to The late God of VO D.L.) where HD radio and clean "Digital" audio now marches across the land like a sunami... If you took both platforms and listened to the same commercial side by side...
Protools is cleaner, the creativity with all those "expensive" plug-ins can and will change the way your spots and production sound. I have become alot better in production since the doors have been opened by using the
platform. There is almost no comparison.. and YES, the time has come.. Then again I just started playing with Adobe's CS-4. Still I can do things on Protools that most have yet to be able to conceive in a small or medium market.
Although In my home studio it reigns supreme, at work... well lets say it's the same old story.
The better you know your tools, The more creativity you can develop with them.
Take a standard screwdriver, ok we all know the uses... racks, adjustments, but have you ever had to "break" into a room that had the doorknob break? I have... It's alot cheaper than calling the fire department or locksmith.
And the door didn't have to be replaced. BTW - there were 2 happy talk hosts after that one. I can't say so much for the Owner.
In a world.... (my respect to The late God of VO D.L.) where HD radio and clean "Digital" audio now marches across the land like a sunami... If you took both platforms and listened to the same commercial side by side...
Protools is cleaner, the creativity with all those "expensive" plug-ins can and will change the way your spots and production sound. I have become alot better in production since the doors have been opened by using the
platform. There is almost no comparison.. and YES, the time has come.. Then again I just started playing with Adobe's CS-4. Still I can do things on Protools that most have yet to be able to conceive in a small or medium market.
Although In my home studio it reigns supreme, at work... well lets say it's the same old story.
The better you know your tools, The more creativity you can develop with them.
Take a standard screwdriver, ok we all know the uses... racks, adjustments, but have you ever had to "break" into a room that had the doorknob break? I have... It's alot cheaper than calling the fire department or locksmith.
And the door didn't have to be replaced. BTW - there were 2 happy talk hosts after that one. I can't say so much for the Owner.
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Britonaudio
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Audacity is great if you are on a budget or doing cross platform sessioning (i.e. Mac to Windows)
Cool Edit Pro/Adobe Audition 1.5 are an easy learning curve and do a fantastic job, but you are stuck with the effects that Adobe provides (which are of good quality and quantity.)
Pro Tools is the king if you are wanting to do a full editing suite with hundreds of third-party effects, but he's got a price.
Cakewalk is another program but it doesn't do as much or as easily as the other three.
Cool Edit Pro/Adobe Audition 1.5 are an easy learning curve and do a fantastic job, but you are stuck with the effects that Adobe provides (which are of good quality and quantity.)
Pro Tools is the king if you are wanting to do a full editing suite with hundreds of third-party effects, but he's got a price.
Cakewalk is another program but it doesn't do as much or as easily as the other three.
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OttoM
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Britonaudio said:Cool Edit Pro/Adobe Audition 1.5 are an easy learning curve and do a fantastic job, but you are stuck with the effects that Adobe provides (which are of good quality and quantity.)
Wrong. Audition v1.5 and up has full support for DirectX and VST effects so your choices are just as plentiful as Pro Tools has.
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