Author: Dean Rubine and Peter Velikonja Platforms: NeXT, Intel Prerequisites: ? Price: free Demo: To acquire: ftp://silvertone.princeton.edu/pub/music/NeXT_Razor.tar.gz Information: http://www.music.princeton.edu/PSK/razor.html Entry updated: 29 July 1998 Description: Production editor.
Version 2.0
Razor is a production editor for stereo 44.1k soundfiles. We wrote it to edit and assemble CDs. It works much like a video editor but also strives for the immediacy of analog tape editing. Razor does no filtering, pitch shifting, amplitude scaling, reverberation or other dsp. We figure anyone who edits on a NeXT has other tools available for this.
Razor builds an EditList, a sample-precise script detailing where to get a sound and what portion of it to use. An EditList is stored as a text file (.el). A soundfile can be created from it, it can be played through the NeXT DACs or to a DAT recorder through a Singular Solutions or Stealth box (using a modified version of the driver from RT, a real time mixer written by Kent Dickey and Paul Lansky). Razor treats soundfiles and EditLists more or less as the same thing except where it bumps up against the reality that soundfiles contain real samples and EditLists only contain scheduling information about where to get samples.