Spectrum Analysis App for Mac?

[The Computer Audiophile]

Hi Guys, I used to use Adobe Audition, but the pricing on that is crazy for what I want to do. I just want an app for Mac that can analyze audio files, to let me know the frequency spectrum.

 

Anyone have a good suggestion?

 

If there was a MusicScope equivelent it would be awesome.

[Miska]

iZotope RX is similar, but much better audio editor than Adobe Audition.

 

Of course for basic things, Audacity is free and works on pretty much all platforms.

 

I use both, depending on what I'm doing.

 

[The Computer Audiophile]

Do you know if there's a way to get info like this with Isotope RX, and if so which version is required?

 

[ShawnC]

I think RME makes a software package called DIGICheck but you might have to run there products with it.  Never used it but it may be worth looking at.

 

https://www.rme-audio.de/software.html

[Miska]

7 hours ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

Do you know if there's a way to get info like this with Isotope RX, and if so which version is required?

 

I think Standard gives you similar functionality on steroids. Not as simple, but you can do much more with all the editing facilities etc. I just  have a bundle package with bunch of their products (RX, Melodyne, VocalSynth, Ozone, Neutron, Neoverb and Nectar).

 

IIRC, they have a free trial, so you should be able to try it out before buying anything.

 

[copy_of_a]

17 hours ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

If there was a MusicScope equivelent it would be awesome.

When Xivero left business they provided all their softwares for free for a certain timespan.

The site is down now but you can download the latest installer of Musicscpe for instance here:

https://macdownload.informer.com/musicscope/download/#downloading

 

[semente]

I use a combination of Spek, AudioLeak (32-bit) and TT DR Offline Meter (32-bit)

[jhwalker]

6 hours ago, copy_of_a said:

When Xivero left business they provided all their softwares for free for a certain timespan.

The site is down now but you can download the latest installer of Musicscpe for instance here:

https://macdownload.informer.com/musicscope/download/#downloading

 

I have three XiVero apps (XiSRC, XiFEO, and MusicScope) - none of them work now, since I upgraded to a new computer and they can no longer be activated :/

 

So sad - they wrote great software that did things no one else was doing.  XiFEO, in particular, losslessly recoded music files to smaller FLAC files based on ACTUAL content of each file (individually), resulting in file size savings of up to 75% with no loss of actual content.  Pretty cool stuff.

[Miska]

1 hour ago, jhwalker said:

So sad - they wrote great software that did things no one else was doing.  XiFEO, in particular, losslessly recoded music files to smaller FLAC files based on ACTUAL content of each file (individually), resulting in file size savings of up to 75% with no loss of actual content.  Pretty cool stuff.

 

That's the stuff I described when MQA was introduced and we were comparing file sizes and I demonstrated that it is possible to have better size savings in a totally standard FLAC than with MQA. HQPlayer Pro has similar functionality. (not that Pro would make any sense from business perspective, but since I need it myself, I just drag it along)

 

[copy_of_a]

1 hour ago, jhwalker said:

I have three XiVero apps (XiSRC, XiFEO, and MusicScope) - none of them work now, since I upgraded to a new computer and they can no longer be activated :/

The latest - free - builts don‘t need activation.

I run said version of Musicsope on my Monterey (Intel) Mac without issues.

[semente]

23 minutes ago, copy_of_a said:

The latest - free - builts don‘t need activation.

I run said version of Musicsope on my Monterey (Intel) Mac without issues.

 

I downloaded from your link and it seems to require activation for some of the features.

[jhwalker]

46 minutes ago, semente said:

 

I downloaded from your link and it seems to require activation for some of the features.

Same.  I can't find the final, no-activation-required downloads anywhere :(

 

[jhwalker]

1 hour ago, Miska said:

 

That's the stuff I described when MQA was introduced and we were comparing file sizes and I demonstrated that it is possible to have better size savings in a totally standard FLAC than with MQA. HQPlayer Pro has similar functionality. (not that Pro would make any sense from business perspective, but since I need it myself, I just drag it along)

 

I recall that quite well ;) That was the impetus for my purchasing XiFEO in the first place.

 

Sad they went out of business and did not communicate (at least to me) any "final" builds that did not require activation.