Jim Roseberry

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But magix stuff , while it 's on my top 5 best daws for sure , are nothing more nothing less ....than sonar , studio one ect ..

The Object based editing (Object = Clip in Sonar) in Samplitude/Sequoia is extremely powerful.
This is something no other DAW offers (Reaper's Item Editor is similar but not as full featured).
Lots of realtime/non-destructive control over each Object/Clip...
Fades including advanced tapers, gain, phase, swap L/R channels, EFX (including sends), etc.
Using the Object Editor, you've got advanced "snap-shot" style automation.
 
Keep in mind that Samplitude has had these features for 10+ years.
Back when Samplitude Studio 4 first arrived, it was ground-breaking (the amount of realtime control).
 
 

+ 1000  Jim  
 
Kenny

mike_mccue
I would like to see a great news room editor run the Edit and Export while Recording feature in real life, and watch a project go live while it was still being produced.
 
That would be something to see.

Video Toaster (great product with awful name) could function in that way and it was glorius during live shows. I could grab things that were being recorded as they were going out live, edit parts and shoot output of editor as a channel to go out live.

I never ran one of those set ups but I have worked sound on productions where the switcher was an Amiga with a Toaster package. :-)

When they first ported it to windows I was skeptical but it worked very well. It ould take inputs ranging from professial to plugging in a laptop. It even had an integrated version of lightwave that could be routed into recorded or live output. Terribly underrated product that is survived to an extant by the tricaster systems.

One of the most powerful features in Samplitude is "Spectral Editing"
at the Track level...and it works BRILLIANTLY!  Don't have to buy RX or
anything else..it's built right into the DAW.  Just thought I'd mention that...

If I'm not mistaken, the restoration suite is now a separate purchase. When I upgraded from Samplitude v9 to ProX, a lot of people complained about its absence and they gave it to us, but I don't think it's included it with new purchases.
 
When Adobe bought CoolEdit and didn't offer a decent upgrade path, I picked up Magix Music Studio for about $50 to use as an audio editor. Music Studio (NOT Music Maker) has a subset of Samplitude's functions but appears to use the same audio engine. I was very impressed by some of its features and ended up buying Sam 9 and now have Pro X Suite. The first thing that impressed me was that loading a large wav file was so fast that I thought something was wrong. Both Cake and Cooledit took much much longer. Another thing is that it can display frequencies right in the wav display (comparisonics). For example, when I see yellow in a bass line, it usually means fret buzz and I can quickly zoom in on it and soften it with the spectral editor, without having to listen to the whole thing. Pretty handy.
 
Sequoia, OTOH, seems to be geared towards pro engineers who perform a lot of repetitive tasks every day and has time savers geared specifically for them.

Samplitude Pro X is very powerful.  That's where I do my premasters.   Samp has a sweet looking Mixer view.

I do like the track level Spectral Editing in Samplitude Pro X ...
if you don't have Samplitude Pro X , and you want to give  Spectral Editing a try .
Spectral Editing is also available in Magix Audio Cleaning Lab in both the regular and premium edition ...
it's been that way for years 
 
Kenny

I think we're confusing three different things, Kenny: Track Level Spectral Editing, the Cleaning and Restoration Suite, and Audio Cleaning Lab. Track Level Spectral Editing is included with Samp and shows up in the track view and is new in Pro X. The C&R Suite used to be included with Samp but, since the Pro X release, is now a separate add-on. It has a large Spectral Editor plus other noise removal functions like a DeCrackler, Dehisser, etc. Never owned Audio Cleaning Lab but it's a separate product and I don't see any spectral editing functions mentioned on its web page. You sure it's got that?
 

mike_mccue
I would think, that as an instructor at a learning institution, you would delve a little deeper into your subject before making statements that reveal such a cursory understanding.
 
If you take a moment and consider the capabilities of Sequoia you may figure out that you are comparing Notepad to Quark... so to speak.

I did , we used  to Master on those back then decades ago  (exactly for the object oreinted features ) and it was a beast .... i just don't like to write book on the forum lol ;)
 
Still some stuff a damm great in it , i find it hard to justify the price tag versus it's young brotha Samplitude or sonar unless you go deep in post prod and mastering or restoration ...
 
Again i do find the thing , a to notch daw features and engine wise ...