Digitrax

[beachycove]

Digitrax: Does anyone happen to have a copy of this DSP-aware sound editing program for the 660av and 840av Macs that they could share with yours truly?

I have on a regular basis for two years been doing some simple editing of single track (but large) sound files (lectures) for podcasts using Soundedit 16 on a Wallstreet powerbook, and would like to see if there is a faster way to do this work on alternative hardware and software. It involves only very simple editing. I like to use my old Macs rather than keep them on shelves, so would like to avoid the move to the latest version of GarageBand and a 2 bazillion GHz 24 core processor for this simple stuff if at all possible. "Reduce, re-use, recycle," and all that.

I'd really, really like to begin with the 840av and some nice, efficient code in order to see what it can do, but failing this, I have anything up to overclocked beige G3s running at around 400MHz to play with, and the free SonicWorx program to try out as an alternative to Soundedit.

I would be truly grateful for informed advice, as well as a copy of this program (gmail).

 

[Bunsen]

There's another AV DSP aware editor called Deck II which is worth a look. It was variously owned by OSC, Macromedia and I think Bias over it's history.

 

[equill]

Deck does indeed currently rest at BIAS.

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[beachycove]

Somewhere in the vaults, I think I have a copy of Deck II. I thought it was only for recording, and not for editing.

I have googled the subject, and learned that Deck was ported to the av macs, whereas Digitrax was written for them from the start. There might be a difference, but Deck II it is for now.

 

[Bunsen]

Deck is a very capable multi-track recorder and editor, with effects. I used it many years ago for music production. It's pretty simple to get your head around, and you should have no problem doing the kind of work you're talking about.

I wouldn't say it was "ported" to the AV machines exactly - it had support for DSPs on Nubus cards, and support for the AV DSP was presumably added some time between v1 and v2. It has some effects native and uses Premiere format (non-realtime) plugins.

 

[beachycove]

Well, there I was a couple of hours ago ready to roll with Deck II on the old 840av. Fired up the 840av and ... my Jackhammer Nubus card and therefore the 2 x 9 GB IBMs connected to it seem no longer to be alive. The Nubus card is not so much as registered by the standard tools (Techtool, etc.); the drives (RAID) do not spin up. Its not a configuration problem, because some months ago it worked perfectly, ran stably, and looked a winner.

Woe is me and that's the end of that particular plan. So it'll have to be an overclocked G3 for now, methinks. Probably faster anyway.