Audio Editors....

[christianmusicmaker]

Might as well.

The options are pretty broad...hopefully broad enough. Tell us what you use and place your vote.

If you have not already seen these two, they are worth a look...

A really useful editor...
audio cleaning lab

A bargain for the price...
Acoustica

More PC Audio editors
PC audio editors

Additional audio editors for the Mac
Mac audio editors

Also if your choice is not listed what do you use?

[Robert Randolph]

do all my editing in sawstudio.... so amazing.

It's one of the places tracktion fails to be the wonderful do-all app.

[headquest]

Might as well.

The options are pretty broad...hopefully broad enough. Tell us what you use and place your vote.

Admit it - you just like starting fights!

[Sascha Franck]

I voted for WaveLab - but maybe, if I had to pay for it (don't ask me why I didn't - and YES, it's a fully legal version!) I wouldn't.

I use it for sampling mainly, and its abilities to tweak embedded looppoints, root notes and whatever are just for me.
I also find it to be nice to look at and easy to use.

Note: I'm still on WL3 and don't exactly plan to update.

If I had to choose today I might perhaps get Audacity for free or Audition (which IMO is a great deal) and get Zero-X's Seamless Looper in addition (to suit my sampling needs).

[smart]

I voted for "my choice isn't listed" and what I use is Zero-X BeatCreator most of the time, or Zero-X SeamlessLooper when I want to set loop points in a sample. The Zero-X editors are quick and easy to use, and do what I need, plus with BeatCreator I get the best time stretching there is, and fantastic beat slicing all in the same program.

[tetraplan]

I use Acoustica and Goldwave, but I like Acoustica because it's sleek and small and does the job. Also, DX-support seems to be better implemented in Acoustica than in Goldwave. I like the SoundForge-like realtime editing of effects, too.
Great stereo-editor to use next to Sonar and it's not as ugly as Goldwave.
Gripes: gets really unstable after adding DX-plugins. Needs restarting after which it's solid again. Also, it wants to start a new instance every time you open a *.wav.
Goldwave has plenty of goodness, too: batch-processing, markers, cue-sheets, realtime spectral analysis, &c.

Both are incredibly inexpensive. Very nice.

I don't remember who mentioned Acoustica a couple of months ago, but thanks!

Groet, Erik

[Jbravo]

I don't remember who mentioned Acoustica a couple of months ago, but thanks!

'twas meeeee!

(noone's mentioned NGwave which I bought just before discovering Acoustica - also good, but lacks a good noise reduction)

[rsmus7]

audacity rules,
at least for me it is perfect for my needs.

[bluedad]

another vote for audacity.

[christianmusicmaker]

Might as well.

The options are pretty broad...hopefully broad enough. Tell us what you use and place your vote.

Admit it - you just like starting fights!

I certainly hope not!

[whyterabbyt]

Bugger, I selected the wrong one. Should have been Audition not Audacity.

[Hink]

I chose AA, it has really changed the way I do things, it's a highly valued piece of software to me. I use it for my wave editor in FL and for my multi-tracker replacing my hard disk recorder which is now just a fancy digital mixer with 2gigs of memory. I haven't tried many others so I can't say if it's better or worse, but it does all I ask of it. The price isn't bad either, however it was sweet for me because I started with CE2k, at the time it was 49 bux about a year ago they got bought by Adobe and made the offer to upgrade to the same thing as CEpro for 99 bux. Then the upgrade to 1.5 was 69 bux. SoI got it for 217 bux, though I think it's well worth the 299 they ask.

Now they support vst, which is a blesing. The pitch correction works quite well, the stretch I think is great too, though it's not something I will use on a daily basis. One cool feature that was in cepro as well is the ability to take one track and break it up into up to 8 tracks (that sounds weird into up to) by frequency...what a cool feature. I'm not sure if the others have this feature.

When you add in FL 4 for 149 bux for under 500 dollars you have a great DAW. I also have vsampler3 which completes the package. Of course I have a wide variety of soft synths and NIB4. Everything I use for recording adding in the price of my laptop and it's a few hundred dollars more then I paid for my Akai dps12. To me it's amazing...I remember dreaming of buying a Tascam 8 track in the 80's...my dream studio...who would of thunk this...

[ocp]

I use Spark and Recycle.

[SuitcaseOfLizards]

Since when did Audacity support VST plugins?!?! I'll have to try it out again, I was less than impressed the last time I played with it.

I normally use Goldwave, but I'd love to be able to use VST effects in my audio editor.

[tetraplan]

Since when did Audacity support VST plugins?!?! I'll have to try it out again, I was less than impressed the last time I played with it.

It's a nice editor. Multitrack, noise-reduction, cross-platform, open source. Too bad about those hideous WX-widgets.
Using VSTs is possible but it's... fiddly.

I normally use Goldwave, but I'd love to be able to use VST effects in my audio editor.

With a DX-VST-wrapper, you can use VSTs in Goldwave, too. But it's... fiddly.

Groet, Erik