Sample accurate audio editor for Mac?

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The sample editor in Logic is getting a little long in the tooth. And while I appreciate Audacity, it’s UI is a mess and its focus on multi-file projects rather than individual PCM files is an unnecessary complication to independent wav editing.

Is there some sample-accurate audio editor on the Mac (preferably stand-alone) that I’m missing out on? It doesn’t need to be free. I’d be willing to pay a pretty big chunk of change for a nice one.

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I use Ocenaudio (at least when I’m not working in Renoise, which has integrated my favorite audio editor).

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Twisted Wave.
Ocean Audio.
Fission.

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Thanks for the suggestions!

Woah! I’d never heard of this but it’s amazing. Very responsive, lots of sample rate and channel tweaking functions. Useful spectrogram and a nice little FFT calculator (with all the windowing options one could want). And such great screen shot/visualization options! I can’t believe it’s free. Going to donate right now.

Twisted Wave is interesting. But seems like ocenaudio does all that and more. And has the better UI. Given the $100/year price tag, maybe I’m missing something though?

I do love Fission, and use it all the time — particularly on lossy files. But it doesn’t really let you get down to the sample level for anything.

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i use DSP Quattro… have owned it forever. also, iced audio “audio finder” is great for certain tasks. I downloaded OceanAudio editor a while ago. works great for me here on apple silicon. and free. kinda no brainer.

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Maybe not advanced enough for some, but I absolutely love Renoise for just straight up audio editing.

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Ocenaudio :heart:

(It reminds me of the golden days of Soundforge)

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I loved Sound Forge in the old Sonic Foundry days too :slight_smile:

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I have been a long time Amadeus Pro user.

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I like Acoustica, the first audio editor since the old Soundforge that I clicked with (the sample editor in Renoise is nice too).

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The screen shots on the website show a feature I’m unclear about. Blocks of audio on the timeline seem to have a gradient/shadow at the start and end. Is that meaningful, or visual fluff?

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I actually don’t know. I don’t use it in multitrack mode like that so it’s not something I’ve seen before.

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Fair enough :+1:t2:

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Looks to me like it relates to fades, but just a guess.

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I use Izotope RX quite a bit at work, and have also started using it at home. Not only is it a great audio restoration tool, its a pretty good audio editor as well. I have it set as my default audio editor in every app that supports such a feature

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If you have isotope MPS then RX Editor worth a try…
You have the bundle app Mac Zynaptiq with the dope Myriad inside (Batch Sample processing) love it but it’s not an Editor, but the bundle comes with Triumph which can do a great Editor if you click with the workflow…
Steinberg Wavelab is also a good one…
Soundforge for Mac is abandoned by Sony (they continu only for PC)

I tried any of those and as Sound Forge is not on Mac anymore, I find Acon Software Acoustica Standard (maybe you don’t need the premium version this mainly the restoration as plugins) is clearly the winner to me.

All the App Store, Fission etc… are ok but I find Acoustica way more professional in terms of workflow, options, visualisations, UI etc…

(Acoustica is also Apple ARM Native)