GOOD AND GEEKY MAC20Q Amadeus Pro Tutorial - Vinyl to CD or iTunes RECORDING USING AUDIO UNITS USING AN EQUALISER PODCASTS WITH FILTERING AND SOUND AMADEUS PRO ADDING EFFECTS ADJUSTMENTS Amadeus Pro Amadeus Pro is a powerful Much better than using multitrack audio editor supporting a variety of Garageband or Audacity formats including MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, Apple Lossless, AIFF, Wave and many others. I prefer to use Amadeus Pro for editing the wave form because I don’t have drag the sound to rejoin it after I have made a cut and deleted an portion of sound as you have to in !1 GOOD AND GEEKY MAC20Q Garageband. I tell people that Amadeus is like Audacity but prettier and works better. I did try Audacity but it is no where near as good See the audio file as AmadeusPro. characteristics Apart from editing wave forms of audio you can also use the batch facilities. I used it to convert a pile of crappy WMA files to mp3 the other day and once I had it set up it was a simple drag and drop. Multitrack editor Amadeus Pro is a fully featured multitrack editor. Each track can have its volume adjusted independently from the others. Amadeus Pro fully supports multitrack WAVE files and allows you to render sound on up to 5 different loudspeakers simultaneously. In the past when I wanted to record something from my Mac I have been using an application called Wiretap Studio. Unfortunately, this application did not make the upgrade once Mountain Lion arrived. In fact, it is so long since I actually used Wiretap Studio that it may have got broken with Lion. I used this application all of the time for recording podcasts from Skype. It was very good, as I could have the recording put my own audio from my microphone on one track and the recording of the other person in the interview which was coming from Skype, on another track. It was very easy then to be able to split these two tracks and to be able to clean up the audio recording of the interview ready to publish. I did know that it was possible to record directly into Amadeus Pro , but I had never got around to actually doing it. I have been a fan of Recording internally from Amadeus Pro, the excellent sound recording the Mac by using Sound application for the Mac, for some years now and Flower I’m always happy to It is a quite simple download from a website and an install of recommend the some free software that is called SoundFlower , although it application to anybody does require a reboot of the computer. Then all you need to looking to create do is to go to the sound settings for your computer, which you podcasts. can get to from the system preferences or by using the option key on the menu item at the top right of your screen. I usually prefer to hold down the option key and click on the speaker icon in the menu bar and then I can choose where I want to send the sound to. I am always changing this setting !2 GOOD AND GEEKY MAC20Q depending upon which application I am using, sometimes I use the large speakers which are connected to the headphone port of the Mac and sometimes I use the USB headphones that I use for Dragon Dictate . So what you need to do is to choose the output as being Sound Flower (2ch) in your sound settings. This will direct the sound from your system to SoundFlower. Then you go into the settings within Amadeus Pro and choose to record from SoundFlower (2ch). That is all you need to do to have the sound from any other applications working on your Mac be directed into the Amadeus Pro application. So you can start the other application doing its stuff after you have first pressed record within Amadeus. It may well be that when you first do this, that you do not hear any sound from your Mac, and this is right as you have sent it to Sound Flower. To be able to hear what it is that you’re recording, you have to put a tick in the box for passthrough. Working with your audio in Amadeus Pro Amadeus Pro is a marvellous multitrack audio recording application that you can use to organise the elements of sound. In many ways I prefer to use Amadeus Pro rather than use Garageband , especially when it comes to making podcasts . Garageband can be much better if you are creating musical tracks, certainly this is the case if you’re going to use the loops that are available within that application. So there you go, that is all you need to know to be able to record audio from your Mac into Amadeus Pro. It is also very easy to set up your Mac so that you can pump audio into the Mac from external sources and also be able to send that into Amadeus Pro. Amadeus pro is a good application to use to get vinyl records to CD or iTunes . Vinyl records to CD or iTunes - Analog to Digital Amadeus Pro There are quite a few of us old dinosaurs around that still have vinyl LP records, possibly a couple of EP records and maybe even the odd single. I know that I have one or two vinyl albums around, from too many years ago that I care to mention. You have to decide whether you want to go down one of three routes. You can either buy the songs again in iTunes , just forget about listening to that old !3 GOOD AND GEEKY MAC20Q music again, or maybe you can decide to convert those songs Hardware and into digital. software needed to do the job If you don’t have too many of those albums that you want to get into digital format, then maybe the best option is to just buy those songs again. Another reason why this might be the best It may well be that option is if you don’t like to listen to the clicks, pops and you have an old crackles that you get from dragging a needle in a groove at 33 rpm. I do know that there are some people that like this, as it record player that still gives a certain feeling of authenticity. has a good needle in You could of course do a bit of a mix and match, by re-buying it and also has a way some of the best songs in the digital format, assigning one of that you can connect two songs to a forgotten history and maybe using some hardware and software to convert some of the favourites. a lineout from it to your computer. If this is not the case then Splitting your sides you might want to So then you need some software to deal with the problem of invest in buying a splitting the tracks of each side of the album into separate files. When you make your recording, you will record an LP to the A- USB turntable. What side and the B-side recording tracks. Software such as you could do is to Amadeus Pro can be set up so that it will automatically find the convert all of your tracks based upon the silence in between songs. This is not always successful and sometimes you find there are moments LPs and then sell on of silence within a song which will confuse the software. With that USB turntable, there not being that many tracks on one side of an album, I find once you don’t need that it is quite easy usually to look as the waveform in the software and see where each song starts. Also with Amadeus it any more. Pro it is possible to add the markers that you use to split the track up while the song is playing. All you have to do is to press one key on your keyboard to insert the marker and you even get the opportunity to add the name of the song as the name of the marker. Amadeus Pro Tutorial - Vinyl to CD or iTunes It is really quite easy for you to add the meta data for the album, so that when the songs are split up they will all have the name of the artist and the name of the album as well as each individual song title. If you love your music, then you’ll probably find it worthwhile to spend the time doing a proper job of the conversion from analogue to digital of your old vinyl albums. !4 GOOD AND GEEKY MAC20Q Using Amadeus Pro as a really good voice recording application on your Mac There has recently been a new version of the software created by the developer, which added a few new features including one called Smart Editing. What it is the smart editing feature does, is to take your selection and extend it slightly, so that the start and the end is exactly where the waveform crosses the zero point of the wave. By using this smart editing tool within Amadeus Pro you will always know that you are not adding clicks and taps into your sound file as you are deleting areas of audio. In the old version it was possible to do the same thing, but it needed to be done manually with a keystroke combination before you clicked on delete.