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All Reviews by fac

By fac
On 17th November 2004
Version: 3.3

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This is a good audio editor for those who want the most basic editing functions without having to pay a few hundreds of dollars for Adobe Audition, Sound Forge, or Wavelab.

The basic audio editing (select, crop, cut, paste, zoom)is simple and well behaved; especially if you learn the keyboard shortcuts. It also supports multiple undo levels.

The included effects are good, not great but usable. Fortunately it supports DirectX plugins (and VST's with an adapter) and you can preview the results while you tweak the parameters.

It has a spectrum analyzer but it's static, not realtime. I hope this changes in the future. It also has a good noise reduction tool and some nice volume fading tools, which is just what I needed.

Support seems to be ok. There is a users forum which the developer visits frequently and answers questions and takes suggestions into account.

I'm using version 3.1 right now but version 3.2 is coming out next month and it will supposedly have quite a few enhancements.

Update: Version 3.3 has just come out and includes some great additions: plugin chains (which you can save and load), dithering, statistics, and other useful stuff. Word is next version will include native VST support as well.

The downside is that it lacks some stuff that would be really useful, and probably not so hard to include: for example, you can't set the buffer size, so no low latency is possible at this time. A realtime spectrum analyzer and some statistics display (RMS, min, max levels, etc) would also be useful. Individual sample editing, etc.

In short, this is a basic audio editor with DX support which is very cheap ($35) and is being updated with more features. When I was looking for a cheap audio editor I tried Goldwave, Acoustica, Audacity, Magix Audio Studio, and others, and the only ones that convinced me were Acoustica and Magix Audio Studio (which I'll probably buy too). Audio Studio is a better value but it does certain unwanted things like leaving temporal files all over the hard disk. Acoustica is much more clean.
 
Last edited : 24th September 2005     
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