Originally Posted by
Rod Pullman
You know, that's my situation, as well. I'm grateful to hear you articulate this, since I'm sure we're in a minority within this excellent group.
90% of what I produce is commercials and other short-form audio for radio, not nearly as complex as the music recordings that Bob so amply illustrated in his SAW Studio demonstration videos. I do appreciate the real-time response to changes in level, EQ, and so forth. But because I'm accustomed to recording my voice tracks in Sound Forge or Audition (only because Fast Edit went away), and relying on SAW for multi-tracking, I'm not likely to use SS's full capabilities, even in the Lite version.
I was a SAW user from the beginning, it's been a good friend for many, many years. (Similarly, I'd have been delighted to continue using MS Office Pro 97 and Windows XP, had the company not planned their obsolescence.) But after moving to the Windows 10 environment with a recent computer purchase, SAW Pro became glitchy: display windows for Vari-Speed and the Remote Transport would white-out, for example, forcing me to close and reopen the program whenever I needed to make an adjustment.
I wrote to Bob about it and he said that I'd be happier with SS once I learn it. So, here we are. I spent an well over hour editing a voice track this afternoon, just removing pauses and artifacts and trying to use a couple of Sony plug-ins and SS Levelizer to get it where I needed it to be. This would have taken me maybe 10 minutes in SAW Pro, but in the process I learned how to use some of the controls and manipulate regions. So I'm telling myself that the time was well spent. There's a lot of trial-and-error involved. The training videos I've watched, and I think I've watched all of them, some more than once, don't really spend a lot of time teaching the basics that I need to learn. (I've never been an audio engineer.) But, I need to learn the program, so there it is.
Thanks for bearing with my long-winded response. It's good to meet another SAW Pro fan.
Rod
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