If you qualify for academic prices, you might be able to do better than that
-- Audition being around £70.
P
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to
> poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Roger Day
> Sent: 20 July 2005 18:45
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Garage in, garage out
>
> Adobe Audition retails at £210
> CakeWalk Sonar 4 Producer retails at approx $1000
>
> eek!
>
> I'm definitely buying an iMac.
>
> Roger
>
> On 7/20/05, Peter Cudmore <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > This is going to be more expensive than two pennies'/cents'
> worth, but
> > I thought I'd add to the sound processing thread by outlining an
> > easier -- in the off-the-shelf sense -- approach:
> >
> > I assume that if you have a Mac, life is so easy that you
> need read no
> > further ;)
> >
> > A standard WindowsXP machine includes sound in/out on the hardware
> > side. I don't know whether any of the magazines have done a serious
> > test of the quality you're likely to get, but not so long
> ago it was
> > pretty poor. So you might want to add a sound card such as
> a member of
> > the M-Audio Delta range, though the new E-Mu 1212-M (esp
> when bundled
> > with the Emulator X sampler) looks pretty attractive, and
> is a bit cheaper.
> >
> > Both have (at the minimum) stereo in/out, and can take input from
> > minidisk, cassette deck etc. For better-than-basic audio input, you
> > might want to add the MXL Desktop Recording Kit.
> >
> > On the software side, the best native Windows all-round music/audio
> > app is Cakewalk Sonar. However, for audio processing Adobe Audition
> > has some valuable features, including a very good noise-filtering
> > utility. Both output to a variety of formats, including MP3
> of course,
> > though Audition doesn't do Real Audio.
> >
> > Obviously (I suppose) all this gear is primarily intended
> for music.
> > It intrigues me, the relative evaluations of recording
> quality people
> > make for spoken word as opposed to music.
> >
> > P
> >
>
>
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