Topic: External audio editor?

I don’t have anything to add except that you can at least reverse stuff using Podium’s sound editor. 😉

@MelodyMan wrote:

@thcilnnahoj wrote:

I don’t have anything to add except that you can at least reverse stuff using Podium’s sound editor. 😉

This is the one thing i still don’t get about Podium: What can you do with the sound-editor? Could you explain in a nutshell?

You can reverse the audio, put destructive fade in and outs, silence bits of the audio, insert silence and I think you can also delete portions of the audio.
That’s about it I think.
All of this, except for the reversing, can also be non-destructively achieved using the clip envelopes in the arrangement window.

Having an option to open the audio in an external editor is the one absent feature I notice in podium every time I use it.

I agree. Wavosaur is a great speedy cut ’em up editor, one I prefer over the bigger shareware editors for simple editing. So, yes, just having a link to an outside editor is great, and if it’s not too hard, make it possible to drag audio files over into Podium, maybe have Podium auto-save the sounds or something? But hey, either way I’m fine and will continue to use both programs. Good day everyone-

@Zynewave wrote:

Can some of you describe the things you want to do in an external audio editor, which cannot be done in the Podium sound editor?

* Use edisons denoiser
* Timestretch a sample (I do this a lot as a sort of fx)
* Change the gain of specific parts of a sample (could be done in the arrangement view with an automation curve, but sometimes I prefer to “fix” the source file)
* Use edison’s convolution reverb / wavosaurs vst stack to create a reversed reverb fade in effect (can also be done using podium with bouncing and cloning, but the workflow is a lot more convoluted compared to just opening the wav in edison, at least for me)

A lot of these wave editors (audition, soundforge) have quite a few nice offline effects that you might want to apply to a sample or offer good spectral editing which is nice for sound design.

Ableton once removed the “edit” button from their clips, only to include it again in the next version.

@LiquidProj3ct wrote:

kyran, I also own Edison, and I’d like to know where do you learn to manage spectral view, any article or book? I’d like to learn that.

Honestly, I don’t use it. I can “read” it well enough to deduce which frequencies are present, so I can use my eq more efficient but that’s about it.
It’s the reason I didn’t include it in my bullets (the ones in there are functions I actually use), but some people seem to like it 🙂