hiya, first time poster... aint got a mac (yet?) im still tossing up on what sort of notebook i should get, PC or MAC (im sure u folks will say MAC immediately) fair enough.. HOWEVER

the music i write i use (at the moment, willing to try other software out there) is

Reason 2.5 (which i know is out on mac too)

Fruity Loops (which i know is strictly pc only)

Adobe Audition/Cool Edit Pro 2.0


now... What i wanna know is, is there an almost-identical and as practical alternative to Fruity Loops, and Adobe Audition/Cool Edit on the macintosh? if so? then the scales may tilt towards a mac more than pc

Apple hired the developers of Acid, the results were Soundtracks and Garage Band. Garage Band may be all you need. It comes loaded on every new Mac.
http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/

Also worth mentioning is the ReWire capabilities of Reason and Garageband. I've never used audition, but I formerly used CoolEdit, but you may find Garageband to be lacking in some areas that CoolEdit does.

menace23

hi guys, sorry about opening this post again, but this is really bothering me.. well.. not really, but well... okay... reason 3? excellent! happy to have purchased it!

now i've tried peak 4, and i've tried dsp quattro, two being the closest to adobe audition (cool edit) i've seen. sadly, it just isn't as compatible with audio and what not as adobe audition, for people out there that haven't used it before? trust me, if (wishful thinking) that adobe releases audition for osx, audio editing/multi-track music-writing & sound editing will never be the same, life-changing as some say...

and i went with a powerbook g4 beast!!!

im sure other people out there are looking for a feature-packed audio editing tool like peak, which works, and can convert any format to any format too... another thing...

on windows, i used to create stochastic noises by throwing system files into an audio editing program, converting it to sound (as the application could not read the file) which thus then created some creepy, and sinister noises.

so what sort of audio editors do you guys use that can open/save/convert any audio file and also be able to modify the sound or segments? Audacity seems to be a winner,sadly doesn't do multi channel arrangements

Hello

Most of the people use Peak for editing and Qbase(Steinberg) or Pro tools(digidesign) for mixing.
I prephare Pro tools for all the jobs

peak eh? hmmmmm......

Qbase and protools? isn't protools free? (for os9 i guess... not osx?)

any of you tried dsp quattro?