.wav and .aiff files

[Klaus Major]

Hi Shari,

> I use voice recordings in my projects, and as yet have not found an  
> OSX program to record in.  I'm working on a new project and thought  
> it was a good time to find a program, so I downloaded a few.  Most  
> just didn't have it (and my needs are fairly simple), but one had  
> it. So I made a bunch of recordings.
>
> In the playing back of the recordings in Metacard, sometimes they'd  
> play okey dokey and sometimes just static.  So I converted them  
> from .wav to .aiff (in that same program).  Same issue.
>
> I did not have that problem when recording files in the Mac Classic  
> program I was using and importing them into this same version of  
> Metacard 2.4.3.  Of course the fellow who created that particular  
> program doesn't think it's an issue with his program, but with the  
> program that is being used to play the files.
>
> I could go re-record all those recordings using the Classic  
> program, but that's a very temporary bandaid, and I'm looking for a  
> fix.
>
> I'm looking for one program, that doesn't cost a million bucks, to  
> make voice recordings in.  It must allow me to edit the recordings  
> (delete pauses and so forth) and ideally to change the pitch and  
> add echoes.  And it must allow me to save the recordings in a  
> format that Metacard can play.  In Classic I had to use at least  
> two programs for the results I wanted, one to create/edit and save  
> to .wav.  And another to convert the .wav to a smaller version of  
> the .wav.  Surely I can find one program for this for OSX that  
> makes Metacard happy files?
>
> Does anybody have any suggestions?

I use "Audacity":

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

it's free and working :-)

Please remember to ONLY use uncompressed wav/aiff files if you are  
going to "play" them in MC.

Hope that helps.

> Shari
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Best from germany

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de