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Paul Reed Smith Hollowbody: PRS Hollowbody Tone Review and Demo MusicStoreLive.com. Paul Reed Smith of PRS guitars came by Music Store Live to discuss and review some of the finer points of. Jan 16, 2012 Piezo makes it a snap to record audio on your Mac. With just a few clicks, you can record audio from any application, or from audio input devices like microphones. Piezo requires almost no.
There any number of reasons you might want to record what you can hear from your Mac’s speakers, grab that radio show, record that Skype conversation or capture audio for a screen cast. The sublime interface adds makes it a joy to use. Piezo takes the hassle out of recording audio conversation in a refreshingly simple audio recording application.
Piezo is from the good people over at Rogue Amoeba who you may of come across before for their other recording application, Audio Hijack pro. Capable of recording much more than just a Skype conversations, pretty much any application that generates audio can be captured with this application following the golden rules of do something and do it well. The feature list is extensive as you can see from the yet it doesn’t tread on the toes of it’s bigger sibling, Audio Hijack Pro in an overly obvious manner. I’m glad they took the approach of designing a program that gives you more than enough to work with but keeps the dangling carrot of upgrading in sight but not too obvious. Piezo can record audio from almost any source but you will need to relaunch the application selected in the drop down window. The ability to capture audio from applications without having to relaunch them is found in audio hijack pro. Recording is a process of click to start, click to stop and aside from changing the title of the recording or adding comments that’s pretty much all the interaction that happens with this application.
Simple yet incredibly handy. Sound Qualities.
5 pre-sets are included for recording to get you up and running but these are hardcoded with no ability to change or edit them. Once again this points to the dangling carrot of upgrading to Audio Hijack Pro for those features. That being said the pre sets included are ok and if you aren’t sure, just choose the highest one on the list if you are taking it into garageband etc. Sound levels are application controlled not system controlled meaning that increasing the volume in the system bar doesn’t affect anything. Pre-sets included are: For personal use Spoken word: AAC 64 kbps Stereo Music (Low quality): AAC 128 kbps Stereo Music (High quality): AAC 256 kbps Stereo For Internet distribution Music (Low quality): MP3 128 kbps VBR Stereo Music (High quality): MP3 256 kbps VBR Stereo Recordings are stereo broken down into left and right channels and the vu meters are responsive giving a helping hand on setting up your levels. If you’re recording a Skype phone call the left channel is the person recording the conversation and on the right channel is the person on the other end. As everyone in the world seemed to be asleep at the time of writing I called upon the dulcet tones of the Skype call assistant.
For those of you brave enough to risk hearing my voice, here’s a sample recording. For those more familiar with garage band than myself you can split the stereo track if looking to produce a podcast or similar. You can see in the above image I need to work on setting up levels before recording a Skype phone call. Overall Piezo is a fantastic app that’s lightweight on your system, with a gorgeous, intuitive interface that just looks in place on the desktop and does what it does effortlessly.
The only downside is that catching recordings on the fly isn’t feasible due to having to relaunch the application to capture the audio. If you plan ahead a little on what you want to record you will be just fine, if you are doing things on a “off the moment” type then upgrade to Audio Hijack Pro Piezo 1.1.3 (as reviewed at the present time) is a free download from The website or from the App Store. Before purchase, noise is overlaid after ten minutes of recording per launch. A licence for the app is available for a Paltry $10 (£6.99 for UK people) Update version 1.1.5 is released fixing a bug where high cpu usage could cause problems with some captured apps. We didn’t get this on the review copy that we have but it’s always nice to see app’s getting updated in such a timely manner.
Review Piezo For Mac Download
I’m a glutton for two kinds of Mac apps. Audio recording apps and photo enhancement apps. It’s probably good for my credit card balance that there’s not a Mac app that combines both functions. My latest audio recording apps came in a one-two punch, an unlikely Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde app set. One records any audio coming into your Mac with a single click. The other is sufficiently complex you’ll still be clicking on new tools, options, and configurations a month later. Logic Pro And Piezo Apple’s premier audio recording app has been Logic Studio, now reborn as. This newly updated app falls into the high end of Apple’s price stratosphere at $199. At the other end of the scale is, a simpler than simple audio recording app for Mac users. For about 1/20th the price of Logic Pro, Piezo gives you high quality audio recording with a single click.
Open up Piezo, click the red Record button and it begins recording whatever audio source is plugged into your Mac and selected as the Source. The interface could not be much easier. Dual VU meters give you a ride down memory lane to check audio levels.
Configuration is nominal. Choose the audio input source. Choose to grab audio from any Mac app that can play audio. Also choose where to save the audio files. Piezo records web audio from Safari, SiriusXM Online Radio, DVD audio, streaming audio from Rdio or Spotify, audio from any movie playing on your Mac, and, of course, any audio input to the Mac.
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That’s about it. Piezo is simple to use and records audio as high as 256kbps AAC (and lower quality). At the other end of the scale is the new Logic Pro 9, available on the Mac App Store. Getting What You Pay For 20 times the money gets you 100 or 1,000 times the capability. Think Garageband on performance enhancing pharmaceuticals. Logic Pro 9 is a musicians recording tool when you’re serious about recording. Logic Pro 9 has been around a few years.
The latest incarnation is available as a download from the Mac App Store, features more recording and mixing capability, and comes with a much, much lower price. I won’t go into everything that Logic can do, but suffice it to say that nearly unlimited recording, enhancing, sweetening, and editing is only the beginning. This is an audio package so sophisticated it could help you win a Grammy.
I said could. Flex Time is a group of tools that let you manipulate timing and tempo of your recording (it’s like a variable speed knob). Beat Mapping lets you record audio freestyle, without a click track, then make it work with the beat grid later. Can you say perfect drum tracks?
That’s Drum Replacer. Mixing audio is my meat and Logic comes with over 250 discrete audio, software instrument, and auxiliary channels and mix groups. Each track supports up to 15 plug-ins. If you like the instruments in Garageband, you’ll fell as if you died and gone to recording heaven with Logic. Keyboards, pianos, drums, synths, all of which are infinitely editable with delays and reverbs, amps, dynamic effects, filters, and much more. There’s also 1,700 sampler instruments, 15,00 Apple loops (royalty free), 4,500 presets, and 1,000 acoustic spaces (makes your sound sound like it’s coming from anywhere you want).
At $199, the new Logic Pro 9 is a bargain of audio recording and mixing complexity. If you’re flummoxed by Garageband, don’t bother. If you’re limited by Garageband, Logic is the next step up (Garageband files are upward compatible). I come from the era of audio tape, an aluminum editing block, and a razor blade, so Logic Pro is truly a gift from the heavens. Expect to spend some time learning what’s inside. This is a professional app with an attitude and taming it requires work.