audacitious auditioning

sorry about the retarded title. i decided to not write with capital letters, cuz i'm too lazy. and i decided to say cuz. just cuz. but this post actually does have a point besides telling you about my blogging habits. i downloaded Audacity and tried it out a little. i didn't do any recording with it, but i imported some tracks that i had recorded with Audition and played with them. oh yeah, just so you know, in case you don't already know, Audacity is a free multitrack audio editing/recording software solution. i've never said software solution before..... but i think i've heard it before, and it sounds intelligent enough, so it's ok. anyway, i downloaded it after it was recommended to me by the illustrious uncle bill. it's decent i guess, but if you can get your hands on Audition, definitely do so. Audition is more convenient, just the simple fact that you can add tracks, resize them so they all fit on the screen, and scroll thru tracks with only the mouse wheel makes it way better in my opinion. in Audacity you have to add a new track thru the menu, then when you have too many tracks and they don't all fit on the screen you have to manually resize them all individually. ok so that's not such a big deal, but it certainly could get annoying after a while. i didn't go thru and mess with effects or anything, but i haven't done that with Audition either, so i wouldn't be able to compare them anyway. however, if and when i do start playing around with effects, i will post something about it, as i'm sure you all are just dying to know how Audacity and Audition compare in terms of effects.....

SO
reasons to use Audition:
-it's more convenient
-it probably has more powerful tools
-it's pertty
-it's Adobe
-the start-up logo thingy is really cool

reasons to use Audacity:
-you don't want to pay for Audition.... or get it off you school's less than legal filesharing system, hehe

and then there's Garageband, which comes standard with every Mac. i've never even seen this program used, but i can guarantee it's better than Audition or Audacity simply because it's Mac.