[grc] Does anyone remember the names of this software?

[Amoshaun Toft]

Hi GRC,

As an educator, I love that Audacity is free, but there are two features that make it hard for beginners:

1. You have to build you own folder hierarchy, and if you screw it up you loose your project. This is supposed to be fixed with the new release, but I have not tried it.

2. When you clip a track on one end for a cross-fade, you cannot recover where you cut to expand it back out again in the event that you cut into the person talking. Digital editing is non-destructive, and other programs allow this function, but Audacity has instituted a destructive editing process in their code that requires that you start over with a new file import to expand the excerpt envelope for a clip. Boo...

PS: I miss cool edit and sound forge! What a blast from the past. Those were the days... 

I now teach Hindenburg when I am able to get free licenses for students, as the interface is amazing for public affairs programming.

Amoshaun

-----Original Message-----
From: grc <grc-bounces at maillist.peak.org> On Behalf Of Spencer Graves via grc
Sent: Wednesday, June 2, 2021 9:27 AM
To: grc at maillist.peak.org
Subject: Re: [grc] Does anyone remember the names of this software?

Hi, Frieda et al.:


	  What do you not like about Audacity that drives you to look at commercial alternatives?


	  Spencer Graves


On 6/2/21 5:35 AM, David Devereaux-Weber via grc wrote:
> Frieda,
> 
> I think the software you mention was Sound Forge:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_Forge
> 
> Adobe Audition has a different origin thread;
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Audition
> 
> 
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 5:08 AM Frieda Werden via grc <grc at maillist.peak.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> There is an editing software that I think is currently called Adobe
>> Audition, and it seems to be the same as what we were given on a disc for
>> free at the GRC in Madison way back in the '90s.  I think it has been sold
>> on to at least two other companies, and I'm trying to remember all the
>> names.
>>
>> Am I right that pretty much nothing has changed about it but the company
>> names?  Or am I missing the good stuff?
>>
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