Help! Looking for an app that lets you add Timestamps/notes/markers to audio tracks?

quiver

Hello everyone,

So, I am looking for something like an audio editor that would let me add labels to certain sections of an audio track.
You know how Soundcloud has this option to time stamp tracks with comments?
Or how you can add labels in Audacity or Ableton and mark certain sections of audio?

I just need this simple function to keep notes on ideas for the tracks I’m working on e.t.c
So far had no luck finding anything

Thanx

NeuM

@quiver said:
Hello everyone,

So, I am looking for something like an audio editor that would let me add labels to certain sections of an audio track.
You know how Soundcloud has this option to time stamp tracks with comments?
Or how you can add labels in Audacity or Ableton and mark certain sections of audio?

I just need this simple function to keep notes on ideas for the tracks I’m working on e.t.c
So far had no luck finding anything

Thanx

Barring an actual app, there's always Notes. I'm not kidding. Producers and engineers for many years (prior to automation and computer control) kept handwritten notes.

quiver

@NeuM said:

@quiver said:
Hello everyone,

So, I am looking for something like an audio editor that would let me add labels to certain sections of an audio track.
You know how Soundcloud has this option to time stamp tracks with comments?
Or how you can add labels in Audacity or Ableton and mark certain sections of audio?

I just need this simple function to keep notes on ideas for the tracks I’m working on e.t.c
So far had no luck finding anything

Thanx

Barring an actual app, there's always Notes. I'm not kidding. Producers and engineers for many years (prior to automation and computer control) kept handwritten notes.

True that! It’s exactly what I’m doing rn for the most part.

However, I was envisioning a simple way of putting a couple of tracks (or even cuts of various tracks together) in one app and be able to view them as a whole, replay certain parts and add timestamps with text notes.

It’s more so to work on a bigger picture of various tracks and have easy re-play option while keeping all text notes in one place. (Also helps with the visual thinking)

andowrites

@NeuM said:

@quiver said:
Hello everyone,

So, I am looking for something like an audio editor that would let me add labels to certain sections of an audio track.
You know how Soundcloud has this option to time stamp tracks with comments?
Or how you can add labels in Audacity or Ableton and mark certain sections of audio?

I just need this simple function to keep notes on ideas for the tracks I’m working on e.t.c
So far had no luck finding anything

Thanx

Barring an actual app, there's always Notes. I'm not kidding. Producers and engineers for many years (prior to automation and computer control) kept handwritten notes.

That's exactly my own approach and recommendation. I keep a lot of notes in Bear app on my phone. But recently, I've begun to shift to a hardback notebook, one with blank pages, and manuscript pages, that I can write, sketch diagrams, or even write music in. I like the way I can flick through it for inspiration, just as I do with my sketchbooks and writing notebooks.

Even timestamps could be written in handwritten note form. It's certainly worth considering sticking with it. Meanwhile, i'm interested to hear other suggestions here.

quiver

@andowrites said:
That's exactly my own approach and recommendation. I keep a lot of notes in Bear app on my phone. But recently, I've begun to shift to a hardback notebook, one with blank pages, and manuscript pages, that I can write, sketch diagrams, or even write music in. I like the way I can flick through it for inspiration, just as I do with my sketchbooks and writing notebooks.

Even timestamps could be written in handwritten note form. It's certainly worth considering sticking with it. Meanwhile, i'm interested to hear other suggestions here.

Absolutely - notebooks, diagrams, graphic notations, drawings even!

What I miss tho, is the ability to re-play loops of certain parts of audio files, neatly time stamped, and have all the tracks I work with visible on one screen (like multitrack)
The text note function can be primitive, if even to mark parts and put ref. numbers I could elaborate on in notebook e.t.c

Ex:

Angie

Transcribe+ lets you place label flags and also set multiple named loops.

quiver

@Angie said:
Transcribe+ lets you place label flags and also set multiple named loops.

Thanx for the recommendation, just checked it out. ALMOST what I’m looking for - simple interface, ability to flag parts, cool loop feature.
However one thing it’s missing is basic ability to edit audio (cut and paste parts of audio together or combining parts of different audio tracks in one) and ability to have multiple tracks or a “library” view of tracks you are working on.

espiegel123

@quiver said:

@Angie said:
Transcribe+ lets you place label flags and also set multiple named loops.

Thanx for the recommendation, just checked it out. ALMOST what I’m looking for - simple interface, ability to flag parts, cool loop feature.
However one thing it’s missing is basic ability to edit audio (cut and paste parts of audio together or combining parts of different audio tracks in one) and ability to have multiple tracks or a “library” view of tracks you are working on.

Auditor has markers and has support for multiple layers

audiblevideo

Ferrite
Used mostly for long from spoken word, interviews, reporting, field recording etc
However, is supports multiple channels / tracks and AUv3

At this link in an embedded video there’s a portion about bookmarking and notes

https://www.wooji-juice.com/products/ferrite/tutorials#h3-recording-bookmarks

29.99 but full featured
Maybe you’ll take up podcasting