Leo Laporte might go 100% Mac: "So long Suckah"

allan is right for the most part. Good mac apps for radio/podcasting style work are pretty lacking. Although I would disagree with "hold a candle." cool edit pro was never really that great of a program (although it was easy!) nor is audition (although better). But I did wish to have something even of that quality for mac. But Furthermore for musicians, there are loads of great mac apps for audio, protools being merely the tip of the iceberg (but a darn big tip, no "maybe" about it). But for the types of things that I gather Leo would be doing, there is a definite gap missing on the mac.

also while not amazing, i don't find soundtrack to be a steaming pile of crap. and as a free program for regular folks, garageband is head an shoulders above everything in its catergory.

audition could very easily fill that gap and make some people into switchers. I hope adobe takes advantage of that.

You Leo hata's are all idiots.

If you had an iota of clue, you'd know that Leo has a radio background. People with radio backgrounds tend to prefer Cool Edit Pro, as it is/was the defacto standard editing application used by radio-types. Cool Edit was turned into Audition when Adobe acquired Syntrillum Software. Neither product was ever ported to the Mac, until SoundBooth, which looks like Audition "Lite".

The fact is (and I ONLY use Macs for professional digital video/audio production), none of the major OSX audio editing apps, except maybe for ProTools, holds a candle to the stuff available on the PC. Yes, that includes Peak and Soundtrack Pro (which is really a steaming pile of crap, to be quite frank).

This explains why he is excited about Soundbooth, and why he "held out" on the PC for so long.

I just noticed something amusing (I'm being a pedant). Leo's the guy who wants us all to use his word 'netcast', though it seems he can't remember to use it himself. First he says "I use Adobe Audition for all my netcast" and then "The kind of thing most podcasters need." Not "Netcasters" then? ; )

Tech-guru ? Leo Laporte ? Honestly, my grandmother has a better understanding of the tech industry than him.

Opps... That should be SoundBooth for Mac, not Audition as I stated above.

For those that haven't listent to Leo, check out TWiT podcast or Mac Break video podcast.

So if Audition doesn't support multi track editing, there is LogicPro Express, which is a bit costly, but it should work for what he needs.

Or Audition will evolve past it's beta and support multi tracks.

Regardless, I'd be pretty happy if he left the Windows side to go all Mac.

I'm pretty much all Mac, with the exception of what I do for my day job (Network Admin on an all Microsoft network). A friend of mine would love to make the jump, but he's very heavy into MS Access and SQL Server 2000. And Parallels and Boot Camp are solutions that haven't worked for him yet.

This is the same guy that refuses to say "podcast"...

Yet he also said he might abandon the iPod for a Zune.

Really? He's been hanging on because of an audio editor? Why wouldn't he use Peak or Sound Studio? Sounds fishy to me.

I wonder if cash made it's way from Adobe to Leo's hand to promote this.

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