Hello Max, Amadeus Pro is $59.99 and Amadeus Lite is $24.99. Both versions are available at the Mac App Store, so you can check prices and reviewers' comments. However, they also offer a 25% educational discount for students. Since the Mac App Store cannot handle educational discounts, such purchases have to be made directly from the developer's web site. Here's the relevan information from their site: • Is there an educational discount available? "Yes, a 25% discount is available for students. Just send an email from your university address to mar...@hairersoft.com asking for a discount coupon. It is unfortunately not possible to offer educational discounts through the Mac App Store, so this voucher only works on the HairerSoft webstore."
You will almost certainly want to get the Pro version, in order to do multi-track editing, batch processing, recording Internet streams, and a few other such functions that are not supported by the Lite version. You can download trial versions of both Pro and Lite from the web site: • Amadeus Pro download page: http://hairersoft.com/pro.html#4 • Amadeus Lite download page: http://hairersoft.com/lite.html#4 There's also a "How to be Blind" podcast on using Amadeus Pro that Mike did, and posted about earlier to this list: http://htb2.com/tag/amadeus-pro/ There are links to download and play on that page. Other popular sound editing software that list users like are Sound Studio (also available for the Mac App Store) and Audacity (free and cross platform). I' m cutting and pasting from old mail archive list posts (not giving the links, because the original thread included Mike's podcast in Dropbox link that no longer works), so I'll also paste in information about what Amadeus Pro has that is not in Audacity. (If this reply should be updated in view of more recent changes, someone can correct me.) Alex asked what features Amadeus Pro has that are not in Audacity. Some of these include batch processing, toolbar buttons for adding/splitting/deleting tracks, fading in/out, and access to metadata/info, ability to join a batch of files together at once, controls and shortcuts for extending sound to particular marker-points (demonstrated in Mike's podcast, also in the reply I wrote to Chris Hallsworth's query about ringtone creation on the Mac-access list, since this bit is all excerpted from my archived reply to his post on macvisionaries), more custom controls for trimming silence, denoising, and automatic splitting (for example, at silence points.) I think it does better on multi-channel editing and recording. Audacity is a good, free, cross-platform editor, so there are advantages to using it on multiple operating systems. Amadeus Pro is optimized for the Mac GUI. HTH. Cheers, Esther -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
