A good sound-editing proggie?

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2004-07-01 07:06pm

Recommend me a good program that can let me edit sound files (wav's, etc), do stuff like cut paste, delete certain sections of a song, etc.

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2004-07-01 08:50pm

If you've got cash, I'd say go with Soundforge. Works good enough for me... rather simple and pretty intuitive interface... don't know how much it costs these days, though.

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-07-01 09:07pm

I use Audacity. It's worked fine for me when I need to record something or edit a sound file.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2004-07-01 10:26pm

Nero Wave Editor works fine for me. (even saves directly to mp3)

m112880 · Post by **m112880** » 2004-07-01 11:00pm

cool edit is the best i've used. its used by a lot of radio stations so it is good. but it is also experanse but you can download a demo of it that works ok.

Saurencaerthai · Post by **Saurencaerthai** » 2004-07-01 11:02pm

Logic is one I would definately recommend. It's growing to be one of the more popular tools used in sound composition. Sonar is another. Protools is a good solid system to do that stuff on, but don't bother unless you intend on dropping $450 on an M-Box.

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-07-01 11:37pm

Vertigo1 wrote:Nero Wave Editor works fine for me. (even saves directly to mp3)

Audacity can save to .wav, .mp3, .ogg vorbis or .aup (audacity project, so you can have a working copy).

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2004-07-01 11:57pm

SPOOFE wrote:If you've got cash, I'd say go with Soundforge. Works good enough for me... rather simple and pretty intuitive interface... don't know how much it costs these days, though.

I need to get that.

CoolEdit is nice too, but if all you're wanting to do is clip pieces of sounds and stuff, try downloading Goldwave, as you can basically use forever without having to pay for it.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-07-02 05:45am

Actually, the shareware version of GoldWave is limited to 3000 total actions, then it stops working until you purchace a license.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-07-02 09:59am

Logic is sheer overkill for what Shinova probably wants to do. Audacity might work out fine.

Saurencaerthai · Post by **Saurencaerthai** » 2004-07-02 03:56pm

phongn wrote:Logic is sheer overkill for what Shinova probably wants to do. Audacity might work out fine.

Probably. After all, the manuals consist of three tomes/novels.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2004-07-03 12:42am

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Actually, the shareware version of GoldWave is limited to 3000 total actions, then it stops working until you purchace a license.

It still takes a long time to get to that.