It’s not uncommon for me to have clicked on the wrong track when I start recording and I used to be able to tell right away that I’d messed up. One disappointment in the interface is that unlike GarageBand, the waveform isn’t visible until you finish a recording session. In GarageBand I would get this giant stack of tracks and have to keep scrolling up and down amongst them. If you get a lot of tracks set up, you can easily collapse them with a disclosure triangle which I find really useful. You also get a volume slider for each track right in the same area.
Levelator blinds pro#
I like to mute the music track while I’m laying my own audio track in, and Amadeus Pro has a check box for “Play” right on each track that you can toggle on and off. Amadeus Pro has a field right on the track that says “Track Name” inviting you to rename them. When you start adding a lot of tracks, it really helps to be able to name them. I often have a stereo recording from Chit Chat Across the Pond that I’d like to split into two mono tracks to do things like remove a phone ringing on one side, or some other problem in the audio.
Levelator blinds upgrade#
Having these buttons right up front is a huge upgrade from GarageBand for me. Right after that are four really easy to understand buttons to add a track, delete a track, split a stereo track into two mono tracks and split track. It’s got the traditional play, pause, rewind, fast forward and record buttons. The Amadeus Pro interface at its basic level is really easy to understand.
Levelator blinds mac#
I applaud the developer for letting me try it out and then buy in the Mac App Store (or directly from him).
Levelator blinds manual#
The developer also offered a free trial so armed with the manual I was able to test thoroughly before committing. I discovered a detailed 88-page manual online and I did the weirdest thing – I read it cover to cover! I got a little nervous when I saw the date on the manual was 2011, and even more nervous I went over to the discussion forums at and saw the sticky post on top dated 2009, but when I dug into the forum found the developer actively engaged in helping out his users. I remembered ages ago playing around briefly with a tool called Amadeus Pro so I thought I’d take a fresh look at it to see if it met my needs. It’s not that I didn’t think those were swell, it’s just that it was WAY too much work. GarageBand 6 gave me all of these things as well as some podcast tools that I didn’t use, like tools to make an enhanced podcast where you can jump to bookmarks within a show with different album artwork. I need to be able to export in an uncompressed form, usually an AIFF, so that I can run other tools to improve the audio before it gets compressed to an mp3.
In fact, I often need to slide everything on all tracks over to the right. If I’m going to insert, I need to be able to slide the split track over to the right. The ability to split a track to remove a piece or do an insertion.
Garageband 6.0.5 was my tool of choice for all this time, but it was deprecated a few years ago and replaced by GarageBand 10 which is so complicated and filled with non-podcasting things that I’ve never been able to get it to work for me. I never ever wanted that, but I would accidentally trigger it during editing and it would take forever to analyze the track to apply the effect and then let me undo the effect. In another irritating example, GarageBand introduced Flex Time editing which allows the audio editor to change the pitch of a vocalist’s recording in case they were off key. MANY years ago Will, a good friend of the show, created a little script for me that turned all that stuff off that I was using up until I stopped using GarageBand. For example, GarageBand defaults to having the metronome on, keeping track of beats per minute, and even having reverb on voice tracks. Recording a podcast isn’t really similar to recording music but for years I’ve used GarageBand to do the podcast.
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