I’m using Koala for all this stuff now too, a seriously useful little app, and the add-ons are worth every penny.
Koala is also available for macOS (it’s in the Mac desktop app store, not sure if it’s limited to M1 or not though), and Windows from the koala website as a free download.
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It depends if you want destructive vs non destructive.
Using a DAW for editing is going to be non destructive.
Using an audio editor can be destructive but incredibly fast. I used to use Wavelab for this but I’m sure Audacity can do the same thing.
Audio editors are designed to work on sample editing. You won’t get faster than this.
DAW editing, this is my opinion… ProTools has the best editing but they’ve got the stupid price model and I’d avoid if possible. Reaper is great too, but you’ll spend a bit of time to get past all the options. I can’t compare Bitwig, but I hear good things. I mostly work in Live and you can do it, but it’s a slow process.
If you’re on Mac, there’s also Zynaptiq’s Mac bundle which include Triumph 3 and Myriad.
Triumph is a dedicated audio editor. It wasnt my favorite over Wavelab, but it would also be quick for slicing and editing. The gem of the bunch is Myriad because you run macros to quickly edit multiple sample just by pressing a button.
Yeah I already checked and it’s M1 only unfortunately. I’ll definitely be trying it on my ipad though
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Yeah I want simple destructive editing. I use Cubase and I’ve never really used it for sample editing because it seems a bit over complicated. I did have Wavelab years ago but never really got into it. My favourite one that I’ve used in the past was Cool Edit 2000 but that’s going back about 25 years!
And the successor to Cool Edit is stuck behind Adobe’s Creative Cloud.
Seriously give Audacity a try.
It doesn’t have a polished GUI but it does everything the expensive ones do.
I’m running it on my Intel i5 MacBook Pro without issues. I downloaded it from the App Store, it stated it was “compatible with this Mac”
Latest audacity has a ‘beats and bars’ feature (which is in beta). Haven’t tried it yet, but I guess that should make it more friendly to musicians.
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Some great tutorials in this playlist From NervousCook$ too, I’ve been following them just to get a good overview of Koala’s capabilities. Now resitting them, with iPad and iPhone Koala instances at hand…