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713 TSB · Post by **713 TSB** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 12:35 am

So whats your favorite wav editor and why? I`m just curious to find out what people go for.

dougsyo · Post by **dougsyo** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 1:44 am

713 TSB wrote:So whats your favorite wav editor and why? I`m just curious to find out what people go for.

For quick-and-dirty little stuff I use Image-Line's EZ-Editor.

When I have serious editing, normalizing, large files, formats other than wav, etc I use Sound Forge Studio.

Doug

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 2:06 am

Sound Forge (I've got version 6). Owned SF since 1994, I think, so we're old friends. I know how to use just about everything in it, and am completely pleased with it all.

One of my favorite parts is the Noise Reduction 2.0 plug-in, perfect for fixing up old vinyl without wrecking the parts of the sound that you want to keep. (Second time today I've mentioned that; first in Cakewalk forums.)

Meffy

Steven West · Post by **Steven West** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 2:14 am

WaveLab 4.0 for me. Just can do EVERYTHING from clean and prep a sample, to making a accurate BPM'd loop, to making a .WAV to MP3, to Mastering, to putting tracks together for CD continuity, right done to the finished product.

A truely top notch audio studio IMO!

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 2:35 am

713, what do you use? Or are you looking for guidance on what's a good choice to buy? If the latter, better mention whether you're on a Mac or a Windows box. :-) (My Windows advice would be useless to a Macintosh owner, and sadly my Mac isn't powerful enough to run significant music software.)

Meffy

allofdrab · Post by **allofdrab** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 3:11 am

Look how happy this guy is!
How could I not want to use his wonderful, free software.
It would be wrong,... a sheer crime.

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smart · Post by **smart** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 3:15 am

dougsyo wrote:For quick-and-dirty little stuff I use Image-Line's EZ-Editor.

I used to use these, but now I'm using Zero-X BeatCreator/BeatQuantizer and SeamlessLooper which are bigger brothers of EZ-Editor. You really can't go wrong with EZ-Editor though for only $24 if you just need a simple editor.

Carbonboy · Post by **Carbonboy** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 5:18 am

www.goldwave.com

price/performance ratio.

Carb.

idobs · Post by **idobs** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 5:42 am

I use SoundForge... It seems like many people like WaveLab too.

I like SoundForge purely because I'm used to it: I've owned it for years, and it's the first wave-editor I used. I feel like a wave-editor is one of those things that is pretty much going to be the same regardless of which one you use, so you might as well use the one that you're comfortable with.

I will say that there's one thing that I HATE in SoundForge: The way that you apply DX plugins is aweful. There's no great way to apply a plugin in a non-destructive way. (I.e. plugins are immediately applied to the sample). Actually, I'm not sure if ANY wave-editor allows effects to be chained on-top of the sample without applying it, but I want it.

(I'm used to that from my sequencer)

-Ido

Ian B · Post by **Ian B** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 7:51 am

Carbonboy wrote:www.goldwave.com

price/performance ratio.

Carb.

Another Goldwave user here, and for the same reasons

deep.noise · Post by **deep.noise** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 8:10 am

FLS internal editor and Audacity

deggy · Post by **deggy** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 8:15 am

wavelab 4 for me. don't know why. I just got sick of cool edit (now Audition). Its alright for some things. All i usually only use wave editors for preparing/chopping up samples etc.. I do most of my mastering in my host app.

rsmus7 · Post by **rsmus7** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 8:18 am

I do it inside Tracktion
or
I use audacity

works perfect for me

Kriminal · Post by **Kriminal** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 8:45 am

Jbravo · Post by **Jbravo** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 9:34 am

I used to use a non-legit version of Soundforge but I cut out all that stuff. It's obscenely expensive (or it was last time I looked), now I use NGWave or Acoustica - much more affordable!