AudioOSX

What are the best audio recorders for Mac OS X?

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Ocenaudio vs Audacity vs Audio Hijack

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 Good UI

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 Free and cross-platform

Ocenaudio is available for free on Windows, OSX and Linux.
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 Free, open source and cross-platform

Audacity is available for free on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux with source code available here.
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 Great for vocal track editing

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 Well maintained

Audacity is constantly updated.
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 Great community backing it

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 Crashes all the time

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 Doesn't support choosing what input to use on a multi channel interface

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 Non-native behavior

As it is not native software written for macOS, the user experience (UX) is not very great. The usual system wide macOS commands (e.g. keyboard shortcuts) do not work properly.
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 The design of the software is not beautiful

This cross-platform coded Software does look quite awkward on a Mac system compared to applications written in Swift.
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 Unable to use Synthesizers / virtual instruments

You can only use effect plugins or record live with this DAW.
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 No real time effects

Users are unable to change effects in real time with Audacity. If effects are to be changed, no sound can be playing or recording.
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 Doesn't retain audio integrity

Audacity uses destructive editing, meaning applying effects, cutting, etc is non-reversable after you've saved a project.
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 Not seen as a full DAW

Audacity doesn't have the capabilities of popular Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) and generally isn't considered to be good option.
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 Isolates the audio stream

And you can fine tune the download similar to when using the old reel to reel recorders.
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 Has realtime effects

Audio Hijack has some Audio Unit (AU) effects built in.
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 It is all round software

Supports Mac OS 10.12/10.11/10.10/10.9/10.8/10.7. It creates a personal music library by recording streaming audio/radio from online websites or any audio playing on Mac. You can convert audio files to various common formats like MP3, M4A, MP2, WAC, FLAC, etc.
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 Any sound you hear on Mac, you can record it

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 High quality recording

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 You can create tasks for recording

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