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Hypertone · Post by **Hypertone** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 7:56 pm

There seems to be a lack of good Windows based editors. Most of them don't even support VST. And the ones that do don't support chains, so what is the point anyway? Sure there is Wavelab and Cool Edit, but those are well over $200. Does anyone else feel there is a great void when it comes to audio editors? There seems to be more options for Mac editors.

Megazoid · Post by **Megazoid** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 8:04 pm

http://www.acondigital.com/index_english.html

I find this to be a great wave editor for general tasks.

rpc9943 · Post by **rpc9943** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 8:06 pm

uhhh never heard of audacity?

weird

RonC

butter · Post by **butter** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 8:06 pm

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=fr ... gle+Search

Google is your friend, try it some time.

blue on blue · Post by **blue on blue** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 8:07 pm

have you tried audacity?
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

free, and from what i can tell, you can use VST FX in it. not sure about chaining, as i just downloaded it myself the other night.

Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 8:07 pm

2nd Acoustica-- no VST support yet (planned for next version), but...

Well...

It's an audio editor! I don't understand the pressing need for VST support anyhow. Anything I use VST for, I can use my host sequencer for. Why bother getting an audio editor if not to use its own algorithms? If I'm just using VST I might as well be using my host.

To be clear-- I admit that I'm sort of implying that it's silly to need VST support so badly, but I ALSO am serious that it's simply that I don't understand, in an innocent way. I'm open-minded to being told what important functions VST support could add.

Greg

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 8:09 pm

Goldwave is brilliant and does chains etc:

http://www.goldwave.com/

Hypertone · Post by **Hypertone** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 8:09 pm

I tried Audacity and Acoustica. Audacity doesn't support plugin chaining (or I couldn't figure out how), so basically you apply one effect at a time destructively. Not really usable for the way I do things.

Acoustica demo looked nice, I liked the interface and the price, but there is no vst support.

Hypertone · Post by **Hypertone** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 8:11 pm

aMUSEd wrote:Goldwave is brilliant and does chains etc:

http://www.goldwave.com/

Looks good, but again no vst support. I don't even have a DX plugin on my computer.

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 8:15 pm

Not a problem - simply use SpinAudio's free VST-DX converter to make Energy XTE into a DX plugin - then open (and chain) all your VST plugins from within.

Hypertone · Post by **Hypertone** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 8:17 pm

aMUSEd wrote:Not a problem - simply use SpinAudio's free VST-DX converter to make Energy XTE into a DX plugin - then open (and chain) all your VST plugins from within.

You're a genius! I never knew there was a free DX to VST converter. Thanks.

Forever Sun · Post by **Forever Sun** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 8:25 pm

Hypertone wrote:There seems to be a lack of good Windows based editors. Most of them don't even support VST. And the ones that do don't support chains, so what is the point anyway? Sure there is Wavelab and Cool Edit, but those are well over $200. Does anyone else feel there is a great void when it comes to audio editors? There seems to be more options for Mac editors.

Have you checked out Magix's Music Studio Deluxe yet ? It contains a huge chunk of Samplitude 8 and is perfect for editing. It's also very inexpensive, less than £50 in UK.

Sahul · Post by **Sahul** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 8:27 pm

Another vote for Acoustica, it has an amazing wealth of features for a reduced price.

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 9:04 pm

Hypertone wrote:
aMUSEd wrote:Not a problem - simply use SpinAudio's free VST-DX converter to make Energy XTE into a DX plugin - then open (and chain) all your VST plugins from within.
You're a genius! I never knew there was a free DX to VST converter. Thanks.

It just converts one thing at a time but if that one thing is eXT then the VST world is your lobster

(barring incompatible stuff of course)

Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 9:12 pm

The eXT version will work in Acoustica, too, which supports DX.

I still don't understand, though--

Why would you want non-destructive editing in your editor? Isn't that your host's job?

Greg

Why no cheap or free audio editors for Windows?