You can check out Audio hijack, it's a payed app but you can use the app for up to ten minutes recording for free. Very useful for podcasts and other fun stuf.
If you just want to do a quick recording, Voice Memos is installed already. If you want something more complicated, Garage Band is free. If you want something even more complicated, Logic Pro is paid but you can subscribe, if you don't want to pay the $200. Reaper isn't free but also works on the Mac and has a dedicated group for the blind, really helpful place. So does Logic.
Logic is a more complicated Garage Band, so if you want a digital audio workstation, I'd probably start there, or with Reaper, which has more resources. But GB is free, you just have to get it from the app store. Apple has a guide for it.
For simple audio recording, Voice Memo should work fine.
If you need something with more features. Audacity is an excellent audio editing bundle with many plug-ins and effects, very keyboard friendly (due to a Google funded project to make Audacity more accessible a few years ago), and also open source and free.
Reaper along with the free Osara add-on to make Reaper more accessible, is also an excellent option used by many blind professional musicians. The Reapers Without Peepers" mailing list is also an excellent place to network with other blind people using Reaper. Reaper is also a relatively inexpensive full-freatured auio production tool. Last version was $60.
The only downside to Reaper is that it can be a steep learning curve because of the myriad of functions and ways of performing tasks. On the other hand, it is very accessible using a screen reader and there are a number of free short tutorials focused on specific tasks that one might like to do when first getting started.
May I suggestion my own software, aCapture, that does precisely that and much more, in a 100% voiceover friendly interface. It is paid, but cheap and you have 14 days to try it out.
More infos at https://app-suite.eu/acapture
If you mean recording as in, capture multiple inputs, think say, zoom etc or its virtual, go for audio hijack. If its live though, reaper, logic, garage band hell even Audio Hijack can do this no problem; but you'd still need a daw, hense my suggesting Reaper Logic etc.
To be fair though logic and reaper even gb have learning curves kinda, steep, reaper most of all, but itβs well worth it. On the other hand if you just want to do things as simple as possible, audio hijack combined with a simple audio editor, amadeus pro, fission by rogue ameba (same devs behind audio hijack btw,) Might be your best bet if your going for simple and not much of a learning curve if at all actually.
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Audio Hijack
You can check out Audio hijack, it's a payed app but you can use the app for up to ten minutes recording for free. Very useful for podcasts and other fun stuf.
A couple free options.
If you just want to do a quick recording, Voice Memos is installed already. If you want something more complicated, Garage Band is free. If you want something even more complicated, Logic Pro is paid but you can subscribe, if you don't want to pay the $200. Reaper isn't free but also works on the Mac and has a dedicated group for the blind, really helpful place. So does Logic.
Logic is a more complicated Garage Band, so if you want a digital audio workstation, I'd probably start there, or with Reaper, which has more resources. But GB is free, you just have to get it from the app store. Apple has a guide for it.
https://support.apple.com/guide/garageband/welcome/mac
Depends on your needs
For simple audio recording, Voice Memo should work fine.
If you need something with more features. Audacity is an excellent audio editing bundle with many plug-ins and effects, very keyboard friendly (due to a Google funded project to make Audacity more accessible a few years ago), and also open source and free.
Reaper along with the free Osara add-on to make Reaper more accessible, is also an excellent option used by many blind professional musicians. The Reapers Without Peepers" mailing list is also an excellent place to network with other blind people using Reaper. Reaper is also a relatively inexpensive full-freatured auio production tool. Last version was $60.
The only downside to Reaper is that it can be a steep learning curve because of the myriad of functions and ways of performing tasks. On the other hand, it is very accessible using a screen reader and there are a number of free short tutorials focused on specific tasks that one might like to do when first getting started.
Hope that helps.
--Pete
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May I suggestion my own software, aCapture, that does precisely that and much more, in a 100% voiceover friendly interface. It is paid, but cheap and you have 14 days to try it out.
More infos at https://app-suite.eu/acapture
Depends on your objective
If you mean recording as in, capture multiple inputs, think say, zoom etc or its virtual, go for audio hijack. If its live though, reaper, logic, garage band hell even Audio Hijack can do this no problem; but you'd still need a daw, hense my suggesting Reaper Logic etc.
To be fair though logic and reaper even gb have learning curves kinda, steep, reaper most of all, but itβs well worth it. On the other hand if you just want to do things as simple as possible, audio hijack combined with a simple audio editor, amadeus pro, fission by rogue ameba (same devs behind audio hijack btw,) Might be your best bet if your going for simple and not much of a learning curve if at all actually.