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Originally Posted by Modi

Hi:
I edited 35 classical music CDs with Sound Designer 2 and I am afraid of the day when the old computer will stop functioning.

I have a question: I love the horizontal regions display in the play list mode that Sound Designer 2 provided. Does anyone knows if this way of editing was completely abandoned or there is now an audio two track editing system that still uses this horizontal display?

I tried many PC based editors but using them is always more complicated and tedious then the Sound Designer 2.

All of them seems to me are using vertical play-lists and it is difficult to go back and forth to the regions and tweak them while in Sound Designer 2 it was very easy.

Is Pro Tools a continuation of Sound Designer 2 or a completely different system? as far as audio editing is concerned.
I will appreciate any input, clarification and suggestions.
Thanks,
Mordecai

Unlike AIFF and .WAV, SDII also contains time-stamping information which is incredibly useful for spotting audio data between applications - ie. it retains information on when a clip was recorded against a timeline. Broadcast Wave (BWAV) also does this. If you want data to be cross-platform and have embedded time-stamping, you should use BWAV, or just stay where you are I guess. I keep an old PPC around for situations that come up like this.
Have you tried to take a look at Audio Ease Products? Snapper is cheap and I find it useful and it will read SDII format as well.
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