Non destructive (always editable), with options for curves each time you do a fade. And a more logical way of moving a crossfade if it doesn't work well where you placed it.
Ability to have non destructive editing (copy / cut / fades) until saving, so you can go backward to a previous state, or tune a fade more precisely, etc.
Ability to disable select-all from double-clicking
The idea is simple: give users the option to disable select-all behavior from a double-click. This often gets in my way when I am clicking around at various points in the waveform quickly.
Transport control with a hotkey, including scrubbing
TwistedWave has excellent transport & play features with scrubbing and varable speed play, but can only be done with a mouse. Make those functions available on a menu and/or hotkey.
Often you need to make level adjustments before the recording session begins. Why not allow the level meter to optionally display input levels while in stop mode?
The ability to apply an ADSR envelope to an audio file and produce another file that has been affected by the envelope. Useful for layering sounds to extract the attack of one sound and blend with the sustain and/or release of various other sounds.
This would be great so that when really hitting the compressor we can also exactly set what level is the hard wall. Otherwise, it is too easy to just blow out past whatever set Gain goal one has set.
I generate a lot of my own material, and distribute it quite broadly.
I would love to have a preference that allows me to define all my metadata (including default artwork) so that I never have to manually enter it upon batch outputting.
An "On /Off" check box would allow to bypass the default if needed.
This would save lots of time, as I currently handle this through iTunes.
Re-Select Button to restore Selection Start and End points
Press the button once to Re-Select the range you had before to you accidentally chnaged them
Press it again to undo
Simple but it saves having to start from scratch (Zooming in / out and find the zero crossings etc again) if you messup the start and end points
Each channels will routed automatically to the good monitor.
- L/C/R/Ls/Rs/Lfe
- L/R/Lfe/Ls/Rs
- ...
Particularly handy when you play an stereo file on a 5.1 system in LCR configuration ! Currently you must add a channel for a correct monitoring.
Ability to move a selected area around within the waveform, ie the duration/length of the selection remains static as you drag it around over the waveform, thus changing its start and end points.
I would love to be able to upload x number of songs and audition them via a playlist function.
I suggest double clicking on a song would then open it as a TW document and I could do whatever changes I needed and then save it back to the playlist.
A little bit like the clip list but for whole songs.
Cheers
Johan
Record in SMPTE timecode autogenerated from system clock
This would be of great value in logging events. For example, a person recording a long news conference could tell a video colleague "the sound bite you need is at 13:45." Very useful -- thanks
There should be a keyboard commands for an I for inpoint and O for outpoint to select a certain part of an audio file only. Other audio (and video) editors have this feature. Thanks.
Having a shortcut to apply a crossfade of a fixed duration (adjusted before) would be useful when quick editing voice recordings to get smoother transitions.
Slider or key/scroll wheel for selection level change
Feature like Audition where you select then mouse a slider and watch the level change. I'm always guessing with the F key function and tweaking over and over again. Leave F key as is with its memory for doing say repeat breath damping (where you don't want to
S the breaths).
The clip list is great, but would be even better if the contents could be saved. I work on speech editing & often have to move between different projects. I use the clip list to store different lengths of studio atmos to help clean up tics & other noises. If I could save this clip list so I don't have to keep remaking it each time it would be a great time saver.
Metering down to minus 60dB is already excellent, but 70 dB, maybe 75, would be a more revealing check on studio noise floor (or the odd mis-routed cable) before starting a take. TW is such a user-friendly recorder it would be nice to fine tune this aspect.
While recording, to delete everything from the endpoint to the last marker and keep recording.
Working with narrations, we place markers between sentences. Sometimes, the narrator has to do more than one take of the same sentence. It is established that the last take is the good one. The markers are places by the narrator while recording. If the narrator could go back to the previous marker everytime he/she made a mistake, he/she would immediatly eliminate the bad takes. That would, therefore, save a lot of editing time.
Twisted Wave is perfect! And neat and quick and easy to use. I would rather keep these qualities if any of the suggestions here might in some way affect these aspects for the worse.
Count Down to Record...5, 4, 3, 2, etc.. It should be visual (flash countdown numbers on screen somewhere prior to Recording startup. This would allow you to pickup your Instrument or Microphone before the Recording starts.
I'm looking to select all the moments in my two channel podcast where one person isn't making any noise but the ambient sound is being picked up by their mic. If I can automatically select their silences and then just hit S it'll remove that very slight echo from a bad recording environment.
The ability to save directly to subfolders in the Stacks folder.
A save and a save as option for stacks. As it is now the save option is essentially Save as..
The same view for stacks and subfolders in the "Effects" menu as in the Stacks window.
Again thanks for a great app Thomas!
"Partner Up" with Sound Devices and enter the ENG/Film industry.
Sound Devices machines are extremely powerful. They dovetail nicely with Filers. Create the ability to share files between computer and SD machines using one pipe (or local wireless perhaps).
Even one or better still three additional tracks. I do voiceovers and would love to be able to put down my backing music and sfx tracks along with my voiceover all in the same programme.
Add Effects Stack presets to batch process "Add Action" drop down menu list
I'm cleaning up location recordings using an Effects Stack with simple EQ, noise gates & dynamics. After loading 3 or 4 plugins into a stack I created then saved a great preset that would work on the rest of of recorded takes. Now I want to load the Effects Stack preset I created and use it in a Batch Process on the rest of my takes ... but the application doesn't support this. Can you add loading Effects Stack presets into the Batch process "Add Action" drop down menu?
easy export tool on the toolbar, like TW for iPad/iPhone
A button that would make exporting a file easy, from TW.....with a choice for several memorized ftp sites, and integration with box.net and iDisk, and attachment to email with default email client.... to make sending finished files just a few clicks away, without having to leave TW.
Unless it's there and I don't know how to find it, I'd like to see the selected part of the track show the run time. Not the whole track, which is good too, but whatever I select. There are many times I need to know my selection is X number of seconds or less.
ANOTHER NOTE:
I have tried to download your latest update maybe five times and I always get an error that the file may be corrupt and never loads.
For easy and fast editing of marked areas it would be fine to be able to move the cursor by hotkey to the next marker instead of clicking in the marker list.
When importing an mp3 file it converts it to wave and it becomes to large, so it will be good to have the ability to keep the file as mp3 when imported so it will be a faster export after the edit
Copyright, Engineer, Title and Artist fields among metatags for .wav files
For those who've used Sound Forge's file properties to label and organize content (visible in the Windows file system), this would be a huge help. When you upload a .wav to Audiomicro.com, for example, it searches these header tags to auto-tag your uploads. When producers later download you files, this info is displayed in the media player to identify critical Publisher and Writer info for receiving artist royalties.
The ability to overlay the waveform with a spline curve to edit the volume and fades. Like in Adobe Illustrator (or any other app that uses splines) you should be able to add or remove control points, edit the control handles and see the result on the waveform in real time.
If Twisted Wave supported VST, Source Connect could work with it as a plug-in. It would be a lovely mix of two great programs. The Source Connect folks have said that they'd love to work with Twisted Wave.
Option to prevent viewport from returning to the last marker when the cursor does.
I edit podcasts and I mark the point where something is going to be cut then listen until it's over and hit space. If the view point didn't return I could hit shift click to select that whole area and delete it.
Speech Synthesis Presets for multi-voice volume normalization.
Add ability to preset volume levels of voices in speech synthesis so that discussions between different voices within a recording do not require manual volume adjustment ('normalization') via the 'Amplify' feature for each instance of each voice. Currently, while one voice may be under modulated, another will be over modulated, even within the same recording. Manual corrective adjustment is time consuming and inconvenient.
Insert or merge a piece of audio in the batch process
1) insert a piece of audio before each track
2) merge a piece of audio at the beginning of each track, and optionally also every x seconds, with the possibility to set the levels of the track and merge audio
(Case 3252)
Use of standard JKL keys for the control of the playhead, with the following possibility to then use Contour's Shuttle. Makes Velocity a great scrubbing tool.
Monitoring Switch to set up levels without having to actually record.
Fade the edges of a selected silence when using "detect silence" to reduce gain on breaths, room tone.
In editing audiobooks, my breaths are loud and I use "Detect Silences" to select them and lower the gain so they're not so obnoxious. However, frequently a click can be heard at the beginning and ending of the treated silence. Can the edges of the selected silences be faded in and out so that I don't spend so much time manually editing out the click? It almost makes the "Detect Silences" more time-consuming, the way it is now...
Currently Twisted Wave allows the export of waveform images showing amplitude and time (the most standard way). It's very useful, especially during batch. But there is currently no way to visualize what frequency range the sound uses. Spectrograms show amplitude, time AND frequency, giving a much more detailed sense of what's going on in the sound. It would be great to have the option to export in this format.