WavePad is a full featured professional sound editor for Windows. It lets you make and edit voice and other audio recordings. When editing audio files you can cut, copy and paste parts of recordings and, if required, add effects like echo, amplification and noise reduction. WavePad works as a wav editor or mp3 editor but it also supports a number of other file formats including vox, gsm, real audio, au, aif, flac, ogg and more.

The program is designed to be a very easy and intuitive to use for audio editing. Within minutes you will be able to open or record a file and edit it. But if you take time to explore the other features you will find many powerful tools for editing audio designed with the professional sound engineer in mind.

Key features:

• Supports a number of file formats including wav (multiple codecs), mp3, vox, gsm, real audio, au, aif, flac, ogg and many more
• Sound editing functions include cut, copy, caste, delete, insert, silence, autotrim and much more
• Audio effects include, amplify, normalize, equaliser, envelope, reverb, echo, reverse, sample rate conversion and more
• Tools include spectral analysis (FFT) and speech synthesis
• Audio restoration features including noise reduction and click pop removal
• Supports sample rates from 6000 to 96000Hz, stereo or mono, 8, 16, 24 or 32 bits
• Ability to work with multiple files at the same time in seperate screens
• Includes its own CD ripper with 'ultrafast 'rip mode and cddb music database lookup
• Links directly to the Express Burn CD Recorder to burn your sound files to CD.
• Recorder supports autotrim and voice activated recording

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Sony's flagship sonic app is designed to everything an aspiring music maker needs to produce professional-quality audio on your home computer. Sound Forge allows you to record just about anything, edit and restore audio, burn CDs, create streaming media, and convert files with lightning speed — all using drag-and-drop actions and simple commands.

Core benefits of the suite:

Learn as you go

Capture from any source

Powerful editing tools

Effects processing

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I must admit I'm not very fond of audio editing tools. Mixing music has never been my cup of tea, so when it comes to testing an audio editor, chances are I end up more confused than satisfied. However, this isn't the case with Audacity. To begin with, this editor is free source and supports MP3, two features which usually don't meet in this kind of application. Secondly, it's easy to master, even for newcomers. And finally, there's a wide range of filters and special effects you can apply to your music so that you easily achieve the desired effect.

Audacity doesn't stand out for its interface. At first sight one wonders if this program is really going to be that easy to use. In fact, the interface sometimes makes it really hard to work with your tracks, especially when you zoom in on them for a more comfortable editing session. Besides this, I found myself constantly right-clicking on the working area and the tracks too, waiting for some handy context menu to appear but nothing came out.

After these few first minutes struggling with the interface, it's time to begin having fun. You can open as many tracks as you want by just dragging and dropping audio files onto the program's interface. Use your mouse to select the fragment you're interested in and begin working with it. You can perform the basic editing actions (cut, copy, paste) or apply effects to it. The zoom tool helps a lot when selecting small areas, as well as the chronometers found at the bottom of the program's window. Obviously, you can use the integrated player to check how your work sounds before saving the project.

Audacity features quite a large selection of filters and effects. Each one has its own setting options to adjust it to your liking. But what I loved is the possibility to preview how the filter will look on the audio track. This preview function allows novice users to test each filter before actually using it and also configure it with great accuracy.

On the downside, Audacity doesn't have much more to offer. After a few days playing with the program, you soon grow tired of selecting audio fragments and adding effects, and you feel like you need something else. In other words, the simplicity of the program makes it easy to learn, but at the same it makes it too basic and requires a lot of creativity on the user's side to obtain ear-catching results. Anyhow, Audacity is still a perfect choice to take your first steps in the music mixing world and then perhaps move on to another more professional tool.

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This free version of Sony's music creation tool, ACID, allows you to create your own original music using a pick, paint and play interface. The program is as easy as picking some loops, painting them into a track and playing your music back. The Integrated "Show Me How" tutorials guide you along the music creation process beginning to end.

Download sample songs or use any of the Loops for ACID collection or Loop Starter Kit libraries. You can choose any loops you want to use because ACID XPress software matches the tempo and pitch automatically in real-time. Tyhe you can share your music by publishing it to ACIDplanet.com and Screenblast.com, or stream it from your own website.

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GoldWave is the most advanced and complete audio editor available in its price range. It includes all of the common audio editing commands and effects, plus powerful built-in tools such as a batch processor/converter, a CD reader, and audio restoration filters that cost extra in other similar programs.

Comprehensive, easy to use, and efficiently engineered, GoldWave offers the best value in audio editing software. With over 10 years of development and widespread usage, it has an excellent and unmatched track record.

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SONAR 6 Producer Edition is music creation and audio production software, designed to take you from inspiration to masterpieceas fast as possible.

At every step of your production—from composing with virtual instruments, to recording, mixing, and beyond—SONAR gives you the professional tools and inspiring canvas that adapt to your unique style of music creation.

Change the way you work with instruments forever through SONAR 6’s Active Controller Technology (ACT). Tighten up your entire band with the new AudioSnap feature set. And get the best sound quality with the VC-64 Vintage Channel and it's 64-bit double precision mix engine.

Fast-forward your music producing skills today with CakeWalk Sonar.

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Dexster is a perfect audio editor tool for your audio production that supports many popular audio formats and features audio cd burning. With Dexster audio editor you can do the following:

• Edit an audio file visually (Cut, Copy, Delete Select, Delete Silence, Paste, Paste From File, Mix, Mix From File)
• Apply different effects (Amplify, Compressor, Delay, Envelope, Equalizer, Expander, Fade, Flanger, Invert, Normalize, Phaser, Reverb, Reverse, Silence, Stretch, Trim, Vibrato, Chorus, Pitch Shift)
• Insert noise and silence in an audio file
• Vocal Reduction
• Mix Stereo Channels
• Insert and change described information about a marker
• Apply different filters to the selected part of an audio file (Band Pass Filter, FFT Filter, High Pass Filter, High Shelf Filter, Low Pass Filter, Low Shelf Filter, Notch Filter, Peak EQ Filter, Finite Impulse Response Filter)
• Record an audio file from a microphone or from other input device
• Play an audio file or any part of it
• Convert an audio file from one format to another
• Extract Audio from Video files
• Extract Audio from Audio CD

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There seems to be no end to the stream of audio software being released for playing music and organising your collection but if you actually happen to be involved in the creative process you may notice a distinct lack of variety in the tools on offer. Sure Pro Tools does it all but not everyone is willing to fork out hundreds or even thousands of dollars for the required breakout box and other associated hardware. For those with a slight interest in audio editing and who would like to get a taste for what is involved, Digital Audio Editor proves to be a great platform, both thanks to the basic set of editing tools it offers and its pleasant, easy-to-use interface.

On getting started you can open any audio file you have saved or record a track from a CD or for example, your favourite internet radio station. Once you’ve chosen the sample rate and made a recording, you are given a visualisation of the wave form on both the left and right stereo channels. On a very basic level, you can simply select chunks of audio and manipulate them as you want; cutting, pasting, copying or mixing. Luckily, for those who like to experiment, you can set the level of undos available anywhere between one and one thousand meaning that even if you make a complete mess you can still get back to the original sample. However, if you do go into detailed editing beware that the trial version doesn't allow you to save files.

Of course, it features all the tools you'd expect to help you fade in and out, normalize samples, convert sample rates and add delay effects among others. However, when choosing an effect to add, there is no way to preview how it will sound which compares poorly to Sound Forge, another quality audio editor that lets you hear a short clip of the audio with the effect applied. In the case of Digital Audio Editor, this could well lead to a lot of time wasted waiting for effects to load and then going back again to adjust them to perfection.

All considered, Digital Audio Editor warrants its price tag of $40 (considering the professional solution will set you back $300), especially for users who have simple editing work to do such as cleaning up a podcast or correcting the sound levels of a mixed track. However if you are intent on doing some serious editing work then you would be better served by the pricier but more complete Sound Forge. As such, this makes a great option for beginners, hobbyists or anyone who's just curious.

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Akram Audio Editor provides cool and easy-to-use interface that allows you to edit an audio file visually (Cut, Copy, Delete Select, Delete Silence, Paste, Paste From File, Mix, Mix From File). You can apply a variety of effects including Amplify, Compressor, Delay, Envelope, Equalizer, Expander, Fade, Flanger, Invert, Normalize, Phaser, Reverb, Reverse, Silence, Stretch, Trim, Vibrato, Chorus, and Pitch Shift.

The program also lets you insert noise and silence in an audio file; Insert and change described information about a marker; Apply different filters to the selected part of an audio file (Band Pass Filter, FFT Filter, High Pass Filter, High Shelf Filter, Low Pass Filter, Low Shelf Filter, Notch Filter, Finite Impulse Response Filter, Peak EQ Filter); Record an audio file from a microphone or from other input device; and Play an audio file or any part of it.

Akram Audio Editor supports audio format of uncompressed WAV PCM,compressed WAV (ADPCM, GSM, DSP and others),MP2 (MPEG 1/2 Layer-2),MP3 (MPEG 1/2 Layer-3),VOX (Dialogic ADPCM),WMA (Windows Media Audio 9),RAW audio (PCM, A-LAW, U-LAW),MPC (MusicPack),AVI (audio track),Ogg Vorbis (Version 1.0),G.721, G.723, G.726,AIFF (Apple audio format) and AU (UNIX audio format).

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Color7 Music Editor is a visual audio editor and recorder software solution, which supports many advanced and powerful operations with audio data.

You can use Color7 Music Editor to record your own music, voice, or other audio, edit it, mix it with other audio or musical parts, add effects like Reverb, Chorus, and Echo, and master it so that you can burn it to a CD, post it on the World Wide Web, or e-mail it.

What you can do:

• Open, create, and save audio files in any of the supported formats (can also save any portion of a loaded file to disk as a new file)
• Display audio data waveform (Zoom Full, Zoom In, Zoom Out, Zoom Vertical)
• Record audio data from a microphone or any other available input device (You can record audio from DVD/VCD/CD Player, tapes and LP's, MP3 Player, RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, web page, internet conversation, internet news, internet radio station and more)
• Edit audio files visually (Cut, Copy, Delete Selection, Delete Silence, Paste, Paste From File, Mix, Mix From File)
• Apply various effects (Amplify, Compressor, Delay, Equalize, Fade In and Fade Out, Flanger, Invert, Normalize, Phaser, Reverb, Reverse, Silence, Shrink, Stretch, etc.)
• Apply different filters to any selected portion of audio files (BandPass Filter, FFT Filter, HighPass Filter, HighShelf Filter,LowPass Filter, LowShelf Filter, Notch Filter)
• Convert an audio file from one format to another
• Use marker to locate the selected part or special part of the audio data
• Add and edit extra information to your audio files (Album, Artist, Comments, Copyright, Genre, Title, Year)

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Music Editing Master is a handy audio editing and production tool, providing a powerful and user-friendly platform on which to make music. The application is perfect for editing music visually and non-destructively, recording music visually, applying cool effects and filters, converting audio formats within all the popular formats and burning songs to CD or DVD.

Useful features of the app:

• Edit audio non-destructively for quick and easy changes with unlimited undo/redo (Cut, Copy, Delete ,Delete Silence, Paste, Paste From File, Mix, Mix From File)

• Extract audio from video files (supports split-extracting)

• Polish audio with advanced editing and cool effects

• Record new audio from a microphone, sound card or other input devices

• Apply professional filters (BandPass Filter, FFT Filter, HighPass Filter, HighShelf Filter,LowPass Filter, LowShelf Filter, Notch Filter, Peak EQ Filter)

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Audio Editor Gold is an advanced and powerful, full-featured digital audio editing software. You can use it to record your own music, voice, or other audio, edit it, mix it with other audio or musical parts, and add effects like Reverb, Chorus, and Echo. You can then master your tracks so that you can burn it to a CD, post it on the web, or email it.

The app provides an intuitive interface and is designed to enable you to perform a lot of operations without any difficulties. Audio Editor Gold supports all of the major audio file formats out there, allowing you to create music for everything from Flash animations to Powerpoint presentations.

Features of the program:

• Open, create, and save audio files in any of the supported formats
• Display audio data waveform
• Record audio data from a microphone or any other available input device
• Edit audio files visually
• Apply various effects such as compression, delay, flange and reverb
• Apply different filters to any selected portion of audio files
• Convert an audio file from one format to another
• Use marker to locate the selected part or special part of the audio data
• Add and edit extra information to your audio files

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Expertly edit complex long-form SD or HD projects using mouse or keyboard trimming along with powerful ripple editing modes. Video editing enhancements in Vegas 6 include A/V synchronization detect and repair, tape-style audio scrubbing, drag ripple and arrange, source project editing, and auto-frame quantization.

The audio-editing capabilities of Vegas software are so good that many industry professionals use it strictly for audio production. Vegas software provides unlimited tracks for audio, 24-bit/192 kHz audio support, record input monitoring, on-the-fly punch-in recording, 5.1 surround mixing*, effects automation, and time compress/expand. Apply over 30 customizable, real-time audio effects including EQ, reverb, delay, and more. New in Vegas 6 software is VST plug-in effects support to expand your audio processing and mixing options.

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Expstudio Audio Editor is a powerful and best of all, free audio editor. It supports a wide range of formats. It offers all the features of the professional edition but can only save audio files as uncompressed WAV PCM (*.wav) and mp2 (*.mp2) files. It also features free updates although user support is limited. Get editing your audio in a jiffy!

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AudioGrail (Formerly K-MP3) is the swiss army knife for everthing that is related to audio files (MP3, MPC, OGG...). It can very easily rename and tag (tag: info such as artist name, album, track title) your files automatically. It can also analyse quality, organize files on your system or create a "magic folder" for easier audio collection browsing.

K-MP3 features:

• Supports : MP3, OGG, MPC, APE, AAC, FLAC and WavPack files
• Automatically Albums Ranaming & Tagging (ID3Tag V1 & V2 tags, Vorbis (Ogg) comments and APEv2 tags are supported) Powered by FreeDB.
• One-by-one tag editor with queue (for multiple files edition)
• Audio files To Audio CD burning capabilities
• Files Names Normalizer (Case Standardization...)
• Tags normalizer (Case Standardization...)
• Mass tags remover
• Files organizer (Mass Tag To Name / Move To Folder)
• Duplicate files finder
• Playlist creator & analyser (Supported Formats : m3u, pls, xpl)
• Files lister (Supported Formats : Raw listing, Coma Separated Values, SQL, XML)
• Incomplete tags finder
• Quality analyser
• Internationalization support

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AudioEdit Deluxe is a visual audio editor and converter software solution, which supports many advanced and powerful operations with audio data.

With AudioEdit Deluxe you can:

• Perform two-way conversions among CD, MP3, MP2, WAV, WMA, and OGG
• Open, create, and save audio files in any of the supported formats (can also save any portion of a loaded file to disk as a new file)
• Display audio data waveform (Zoom Full, Zoom In, Zoom Out, Zoom Vertical)
• Play audio files or any portion of the files (Play, Pause, Stop)
• Record audio data from a microphone or any other available input device
• Edit audio files visually (Cut, Copy, Delete Selection, Crop, Trim, Paste, Paste From File, Mix, Mix From File)
• Apply various effects (Amplify, Compressor, Delay, Equalize, Fade In and Fade Out, Flanger, Invert, Normalize, Phaser, Reverb, Reverse, Shrink, Silence, Stretch, Vibrato)
• Apply different filters to any selected portion of audio files (Band Pass Filter, High Pass Filter, High Shelf Filter, Low Pass Filter, Low Shelf Filter, Notch Filter)
• Insert noise or silence into audio files
• Insert information into audio files (Album, Artist, Copyright, Genre, Title, Year)
• Complete, multi-level undo and redo capabilities
• Advanced, burn-proof audio CD recording

The following audio formats are supported by the audio editing and playback module: WAV PCM; Compressed WAV (ADPCM, GSM, DSP, A-LAW, U-LAW, ALF2, and more); MP3 (MPEG Layer-3); MP2 (MPEG Layer-2); OGG Vorbis; VOX (Dialogic ADPCM); WMA (Windows Media Audio); AU (Unix Audio), AIFF (Apple Audio), RAW (PCM, A-LAW, U-LAW); CDA (Audio CD Tracks).

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NGWave offers a fast, pleasant visual representaion of your sound. With its high-speed editing capabilities and intuitive interface, NGWave is very powerful and easy to use.

Features:

• Support for WAV and MP3 files
• Full 24-Bit/192 kHz support
• Support for extremely large files
• Full MIDI Hardware Control
• Pleasant and intuitive interface
• Full Crash Recovery and Session Saving
• Realtime Preview on all processing functions
• Many exclusive recording features
• Many Advanced Program Options
• Saved Presets on All Processing Functions

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Magic Audio Editor pro is a digital audio editor designed for home-studio recording and for people just getting started with audio editing. The application has dozens of audio effects, filters, and tools for converting audio files into formats including MP3, WMA, WAV, Ogg Vorbis, VOX, and audio CD tracks. It also has a powerful recorder control for recording any sound from your microphone or streaming audio from the Internet.

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Audio MP3 Editor is a digital audio editor, converter and CD ripper for home studio recording and for people who are just getting started with audio editing and converting. It provides an easy-to-use interface and is designed for the everyday user.

The application has dozens of amazing audio effects, audio filters and tools for converting audio files into different formats, including MP3, WMA, WAV, Ogg Vorbis, VOX, Audio CD Tracks(CDA) and many others.

Its powerful recorder can record from your microphone or streaming audio from internet. You can also grab your Audio CD tracks directly to MP3, WMA, OGG or Wave files, and query Audio CD information from the internet.

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Whether you are a serious audiophile or you just want to quickly rip a CD or convert between digital audio formats, Fx Audio Editor can do the job for you. With Fx Audio Editor you can visually edit, convert. play and record most sound file formats, rip CD's and save as WAV, MP2, MP3, VOX, WMA and most other popular audio formats. Add special sound effects and filters. Slow down those chipmunk voicemail files and save them so they can be played back with any standard audio player.

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