I take it that Audio Hijack Pro cannot record to WAV. Perhaps you should bug them about that
Indeed I have, and on FLAC support as well. The response from Rogue Amoeba Support was that they're only interested in Apple audio formats, as they're only shipping Apple software. So, go pound sand, effectively.
Anything Core Audio supports, in principle.
But, truthfully, only those simple, two channel audio converter appliances, like iMic and USB turntables, wouldn't you agree? Anything like an M-Audio, PreSonos, Lexicon, MOTU or anything else we'd find for >$100 at Guitar Center in the US would be out in the cold, because those require a tad more configuration for the inputs.
OK, could I ask you to send me a couple of things please? A brief sound sample
Glad to! Check your inbox.
The contents of VinylStudio's Console Log
Done!
But why are you exporting stuff back to Fission?
Let me clarify, and explain: AHP and Fission are bookend products intended to compliment each other, and I already own them. AHP gives me one thing I need: record from any input there is, most importantly any input on the Firebox. Very few products get this right; I tried lots between free and $100.
Fission gives me two things I need: normalization of audio samples and track splitting. VS7 does the second job brilliantly and I much prefer it over Fission, but I must also normalize, which I can only do in Fission in AIFF.
The workflow in Rogue Amoeba product is what I have been using, but VS7 brings much more to the table, which is why I'm simultaneously excited and exasperated about it. Here's how it used to go:
Hijack Firebox in AHP, selecting channels 4/5 in the Advanced tab -> Record needle down to needle up -> Open AIFF file in Fission, don headphones -> Clip off wasted lead-in/out audio, find track breaks, split it up -> Type in meta data about each track -> Normalize -> Save results & pass them thru Max for conversion to FLAC.
All the above is done lossless in 48k Hz sound samples until conversion. But, there's no declick and no linking to external meta data. VS7 automates or solves some of this jumping around, but not until I can use it as a recording source or have it use my samples directly. Using found track lengths is beautiful, de-click is a huge bonus.
A quick note on lossy vs lossless codec use, as I suspect there are many others out there in the same situation. I only use lossless codecs for audio archiving. Disk space is cheap. I'm up to my eyes in Apple products but I refuse to use Apple codecs for the same reason I refuse to use Microsoft Windows Media codecs: vendor lock-in. AIFF is cross-platform, WAV is, FLAC is, Oog and others are. My primary music serving platform is the Squeezebox family, and I listen critically thru them. Lossy codecs simply are a non-starter for me; why throw something away when I don't have to? AAC MPEG-4 and MP3 might as well not exist. I'm forced to use AAC Lossless on iPods for obvious reasons.
Thanks!