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Audio editor with good playback selection window, markers?
Hi, I was wondering if anyone had any experience with a stereo audio editor app that can play and loop little sections of songs, and be able to mark points (chorus bridge, etc?). It's not to edit, just for learning some songs from recordings. Nice to be able to go through a song and loop little trouble sections or hard to decipher chords, harmonies, etc, as you make your way through it.
Used Sound Forge for 15 years (!), and it was perfect. You could get a nice loop, a couple measures, and then move that nice selection window around, and keep the loop nice and smooth. You could even flip it to the next measure, or double, or halve the selection, all super handy for learning and practicing something. There's a trick where you could highlight a whole section of a song with an even number of measures, then halve the selection, and halve it again, until you had one phrase, and the loop timing was nice and uptight, then you can flip that window through the section and all the loops are right on.
Anything come close on iOS? Be nice to have something portable that was as handy. I was trying to use Audioshare, but it just isn't what it was made for. Thanks!
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Multitrack DAW comes to mind. http://audiob.us/get/8/MultiTrack
AudioStretch might come close to what you're looking for.
Anytune ( free ) or ( pro version )
Hokusai 2 is the best I've found, but can be a bit tricky. Auria pro can pretty much do anything but that's a different beast
To do playback exercices on existing songs, the two dedicated apps coming to mind are Anytune Pro and Beattime... They permit to loop smoothly a part of the song and to modify the speed/pitch in order to ease the learning of some complicated chords/arpegios...
They do not permit to mark different sections and move the selection windows on the song far as I know... But in beattime (at least) you can easily export the loops your are interested in learning and play them as loops when you want (from within beatime or even easier withing audioshare).
Peace.
TwistedWave. I think even free version could do that
Haven't used it in a while and it isn't really a proper editor but audio mastering app has a big waveform display. I think anytune beats it in terms of ease of use and editing features.
Thanks very much for the responses. Not interested in a DAW, mostly because it loses most of the screen real estate. @Kranick I'm checking out twisted wave, but I couldn't find a manual for the "pro" version. Does it have any advanced selection tools? Can you move the selection without losing the length, to keep a nice loop? Does it have transient detection, like the mac version?
I'll look at anytune too. I tried Hokusai but the ad madness was too insideous to try it. Also it seemed like it was for multitrack, lots of empty space reserved for adding tracks.
Very minimal, but it does some nice stuff. It has markers. Can't name them but you can navigate to them. The scrubbing while it is stopped seems like a handy way to transcribe something fast note for note. The audio engine is nice, it is like tape sliding around. I like that it pauses when you tap on the playing wave, rather then having to peck at the play button. My complements to the developer, it is a nice touchscreen design.
Checked out Anytune. Wow, That one seems like the luxury car. The marker list, selection window flipping, halving/doubling, looks excellent.
Those two, either one, are the ticket, thanks for the help!
Well, you did use Sound Forge as a reference point. Maybe Anytune or AudioStretch is the best solution for you, and if it is, great! But here is why I like Multitrack DAW as an audio editor.
MTD is fast and universal.
It only uses 14 MB of space.
It offers, "Beautifully rendered waveforms at multiple zoom levels."
You get a lot of features for your $10.
I'd say get Auria LE (non-pro, audio-only, maximum of 24 tracks). It has time stretching, sample-accurate editing capabilities, normalizing, non-destructive gain manipulation, and a lot of other Sound Forge-ish features. The only thing it doesn't do is pitch-shifting (only Auria Pro has this).
Oh, it's 20 bucks!