#MAC SOUNDHACK PRO#
#MAC SOUNDHACK SOFTWARE#
#MAC SOUNDHACK MAC#

#MAC SOUNDHACK MAC#

Many Mac owners will be familiar with the venerable Soundhack, a freeware application that was originally released on October 26, 1991! Despite its age, Soundhack still works, and its makers say they have tested it under Mountain Lion. Once you have set these options, click on the Go button and WAV Fixer will create a copy of the problem file with new headers.

#MAC SOUNDHACK PRO#

If you get it wrong, it will be very obvious when you try to play the repaired file in Pro Tools: it will either be distorted or play at the wrong speed and pitch, or both. If you don’t know what they should be, then it may take a few attempts to find the correct settings. Rail Jon Rogut's WAV Fixer is designed specially for converting recalcitrant files into a format that Pro Tools can read.īecause the header information has been damaged, it is important to set the Sample Rate and Resolution properly. Again you can choose any destination folder, but Rail has very sensibly prohibited the source and destination folders from being the same, making it impossible to overwrite the original file. WAV Fixer works in a similar way to Switch except that it doesn’t support drag and drop, so you’ll need to click on the Select Files to Repair button, navigate to the problem file and select it that way. It will create copies of the bad files and repair the copies.

You can select multiple files, and you need to tell the program the sample rate and resolution of the files. For more extreme cases, Pro Tools veteran and all-round guru Rail Jon Rogut has produced WAV Fixer for Mac, which can fix damage to header information such as the FMT chunk that describes the format of the file. Switch will fix many files, but not all, especially if the header information in the WAV file has been badly damaged. At the end you will have a new WAV file that, all being well, will now import into Pro Tools. Set the output option to ‘.wav’ and hit the Convert button. I tend to leave the output folder set to the default, which is the desktop of your computer, but you could choose any location you prefer. Make sure the option to output to the same folder as source files is unticked: when fixing files, it is best to make sure you don’t mess with the original, in case you make matters even worse than they already are. Once you have it installed, open Switch and drag the offending file into the Switch window. It is designed to convert between different formats, but I have found that using Switch to convert a file from a WAV to a WAV can help Pro Tools to recognise it. Switch is a freeware converter application that is available for both Mac and Windows.

#MAC SOUNDHACK SOFTWARE#

Having run into this situation numerous times, there are a number of software packages I have on hand in order to convert and/or fix problematic files so that Pro Tools will recognise them. Quite often, simply converting a dodgy file from WAV to WAV will allow Pro Tools to read it. In this month’s workshop, we are going to look at a number of ways to get this kind of troublesome WAV file safely into Pro Tools. If you often work with audio that has originated with other users and other applications, you may well have had the experience of coming across a WAV file that Pro Tools simply won’t recognise, even though it appears to work perfectly well elsewhere. VST and RTAS spectra saving rewritten (back to 513 bands).Pro Tools often turns up its nose at corrupt WAV files.AudioUnits parameter saving completely rewritten.Combines a noise gate/ducker and a multiband processor to give you a plugin that can used both as a frequency dependent gate or as a level dependent filter. When used with it's LFO, +binaural can place various beats or parts of a loop in specific repeatable positions.Ī spectral version of the noise gate/ducker dynamics processor. Use it with a reverb to create a virtual environment. This filter places a sound at a specific position around the listener's head. +morphfilter's depth control can change the strength of filtering, or even invert the filter for an 'anti-filtered' sound. These shapes are set by drawing, or by capturing the spectra from the incoming sound. In expansion mode, +spectralcompand becomes a highly tunable broadband noise remover, capable of removing hiss, hum and machine noise, without damaging the original sound. Can be used to tame resonant frequencies or for radical changes of tone.

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