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Re: [motm] Attention Mac users

2009-07-24 by KA4HJH

>Does anyone know of a similar Mac OS program like this one:
>
><http://www.sonicspot.com/wave256/wave256.html>http://www.sonicspot.com/wave256/wave256.html
>
>It seems the "big" programs like Logic & PEAK want to use 16-bit samples
>only, and really can't deal with 256 byte, 8-bit stuff.
>
>Paul S.

Try this freeware:

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

I just tried it out and it does indeed support 8bit AIFF. You have to
Export, OK through the tagging window, select "Other uncompressed files",
then hit the Options button, select more stuff... (a bit tedious). If you
have each sample in a separate track you can "Export Multiple" and only do
the dance once.

Note that any app that uses the libsndfile library should also work but I
can't think of any other free editors at the moment.

--

Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
"The Mac Doctor"

Re: [motm] Attention Mac users

2009-07-24 by Jeff Laity

Peak supports 8-bit AIFF. I've edited cell phone ringtones in Peak
that were 8-bit mono. I just opened Peak 6 and confirmed that 8-bit is
still an option.


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On Jul 23, 2009, at 8:41 PM, KA4HJH wrote:

> >Does anyone know of a similar Mac OS program like this one:
> >
> ><http://www.sonicspot.com/wave256/wave256.html>http://www.sonicspot.com/wave256/wave256.html
> >
> >It seems the "big" programs like Logic & PEAK want to use 16-bit
> samples
> >only, and really can't deal with 256 byte, 8-bit stuff.
> >
> >Paul S.
>
> Try this freeware:
>
> http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
>
> I just tried it out and it does indeed support 8bit AIFF. You have to
> Export, OK through the tagging window, select "Other uncompressed
> files",
> then hit the Options button, select more stuff... (a bit tedious).
> If you
> have each sample in a separate track you can "Export Multiple" and
> only do
> the dance once.
>
> Note that any app that uses the libsndfile library should also work
> but I
> can't think of any other free editors at the moment.
>
> --
>
> Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
> "The Mac Doctor"
>
>

Re: [motm] Attention Mac users

2009-07-25 by p. hendricks

On 7/24/09 5:22 AM, "Jeff Laity" <synthetic@...> wrote:

> Peak supports 8-bit AIFF.
but at a fraction of the price:
http://www.audiofile-engineering.com/waveeditor/
WaveEditor seems to work with 8-bit as well.

overkill, but you could also try more DAW like shareware things like:
http://www.reaper.fm/
http://ardour.org/


I've edited cell phone ringtones in Peak
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> that were 8-bit mono. I just opened Peak 6 and confirmed that 8-bit is
> still an option.