Through our research we found that Dexster Audio Editor is one of the top choices in audio editing applications. The application ranks among the best audio editing software choices because it offers users a variety of easy-to-use features and tools. We have awarded it the TopTenREVIEWS Bronze Award in audio editing software for its advanced features and simple navigation. The application lacks a few of the tools, filters, effects and recording abilities that other software products have. However, we prefer the navigation of the Dexster audio editing software to many others because it is so intuitively organized, with toolbars lining the top of the application.
Softdiv is constantly improving the product and adding new tutorials. They will also give you free upgrades for a year. This application works with a wide variety of compressed or uncompressed WAV files as well as AIFF (Apple), AU, AVI, MP3, OGG and WMA (Windows).
Dexster Audio Editor software, from Softdiv Software, may not offer as many editing tools as our top choices, but it makes up for it in ease of use. Anyone can use this product to pull audio from video files, convert formats, record from the internet, add effects, and to filter or burn CDs.
This audio editing software can perform batch processing and conversions as well as editing marker and tag information. All of the edits have a preview option and are fully adjustable. It supports quite a few preset effects, including compressor/expander, fade in/out, cross fading, flange, phase, normalize, envelope, reverb and vibrato. Dexster Audio Editor offers a good collection of filters including high and low shelf, notch, band pass, FFT and a peak EQ filter. It can also reduce silences and vocals and trim.
It would be nice if they had an effect chain editor and the ability to punch in and out – perhaps in one of their upcoming versions. A remarkable new addition to the Dexster audio editing software is a noise reduction feature. Previous versions offered the ability to add noise, but none allowed you take noise away.
It is easy to record with this application. You can record any audio off the internet. You can also capture audio from a line-in, rip it from a CD or extract it from a video file. It can also work with many formats, and Softdiv is always adding new formats through updates. The program will work with most WAV and MP3 type files and several kinds of video files. It also includes CD burning software.
This is one of the easiest products to use, especially for beginners. You do not have to know how to perform special adjustments to use the advanced effects; just simply use one of their preset effects or filters. The main screen includes icons and dropdown menus as well as boxes for the controls, effects and zoom preferences. There is a menu bar running horizontally across the top of the window with two toolbars also running horizontally across the window beneath it. The toolbars have buttons with graphics to identify which button provides which feature. We prefer toolbars that have a graphic and a text title; however, the graphics are self-explanatory so you can associate each graphic with its function.
The mouse scroll can zoom in and out as far as you want instantly, and you can perform basic edits such as cut, paste or mix, copy and select from the right-click options. It also uses some of the basic window shortcut keys, which we feel are must-haves for optimal efficiency.
This product has excellent support if you need help figuring out how to use their tools or creating a specific effect. It has inter-program help pages, a user guide, a glossary and tutorials as well as an online user forum, tutorials, FAQs and access to technical support by email. They update often, and if you purchase this software you get free updates for a year.
You can access the help and support through the company’s online product page. On the left-hand side of the screen is a list of services that are available for audio editing solution.
Both creative and technical types can use Dexster Audio Editor to produce great-sounding mixes, whether they're for an online radio station, a web tutorial or an important corporate presentation. This product can record anything, from a microphone to streaming audio; and after you master your audio track, the program will help your burn it to a disc. The variety of features and tools combined with the ease of navigation make this product an excellent choice.
