Hi,
Is anyone here using Audacity for an audio editor? Specifically - has anyone tried running it from the SONAR tools menu?
 
I did a registry hack, and it loads up fine - from within SONAR (well it complains about not being able to load a overlay file - but it seems to work fine). If you edit the SONAR clip, it wants to save the file as an audacity project file though. You can "export" to a WAV file - but I'm not sure where SONAR saves the "tool_copy..." files that it uses while editing with an external editor. I don't think this is going to work...
 
I'm just looking for an alternative to Adobe Audition 3. Audition is working fine - but I'm just scouting around for future options - as this version of Audition is not going to work forever on current operating systems - and I'll be damned if I'm going to "subscribe" to the current version - just to edit some stereo WAV files occasionally.
 
Audacity is free - so I was having a look. It's not a bad editor - but I really want to run it from within SONAR sometimes...
 
(I guess I'll have to keep Audition for now...)
 

Have not looked at Audicity but here are a couple of free editors that work fine within SONAR
Waveshop
Wavosaur

I tried using it this way years ago but the problem is that it creates a proprietary project file instead of wave files.
Sonar only works with an external editor when it can pass and receive a wave file.

scook
Have not looked at Audicity but here are a couple of free editors that work fine within SONAR
Waveshop
Wavosaur

The nice thing about Wavosaur is that it handles loops in wav files, which Audacity doesn't.
 

If you're happy to pay for a wave editor you can't go past Sound Forge 11. It's still not 64bit but it's plugins are for compatibility to Vegas 12 which is 64bit. It's an exceptional program. Sony have 30% off special online at the moment.

You know, think it bold of me but I'd near expect Sonar to have audio editing capability by now.
What you can with clips is impressive but to be able to edit would be grand.
Something expanding along the lines of Loop maker or even incorporating one into Sonar.
I'll try those links put up by Scook. Thanks
Maybe it is all that is needed.
 

Thanks for the tips. I dot mind paying - but not £200+, as I dont do all that much with it.
I've been lookin at NCH Wavepad - and I'll check out those other freebies...
 
 

mudgel
If you're happy to pay for a wave editor you can't go past Sound Forge 11. It's still not 64bit but it's plugins are for compatibility to Vegas 12 which is 64bit. It's an exceptional program. Sony have 30% off special online at the moment.

 
Hi Mudgel, I went to the Sony Store after reading this but I couldn't find the discount...    Bummer

I'm perfectly happy with AA3, which does everything I can imagine ever needing from an audio editor. Yes, it's old, but it's not like it'll just stop working anytime soon. 
 
I did just try invoking audacity (from a DOS command line, not from SONAR) with a wave file pathname as an argument, and it worked (it's the only command line argument Audacity supports). That, AFAIK, is the only prerequisite for compatibility with SONAR.
 
Wavosaur is another one that accepts a pathname as a command line argument.

So what is it you would do in an audio editor that you couldn't do in Sonar, or prefer to do in an editor?