GoldWave is a sound editor, player, recorder, and converter. It can create sound files for music CDs, dance recitals, websites, answering machines, or Windows sounds. GoldWave is a top rated, professional digital audio editor. It contains so many great features, you will be amazed by all the things it can do:
Play, edit, mix, and analyze audio
Record audio from cassettes, vinyl records, radio, etc. through your computer's line-in
Record dictation through a microphone or play dictation back at a slower speed for transcription
Record and edit audio for podcasting
Apply special effects, such as fade, equalizer, doppler, mechanize, echo, reverse, flanger, and more
Digitally remaster and restore old recordings with noise reduction and pop/click filters
Make perfect digital copies of audio CD tracks using the CD Reader tool and save them in wma, mp3, ogg files
Edit music for dance programs, figure skating, gymnastics
Analyze human speech, bird song, whale song
Demonstrate digital signal processing with filter effects and the expression evaluator tool
View a variety of real-time visuals and VU meters
Convert files to/from different formats, such as wav, wma, mp3, ogg, aiff, au, vox and even raw binary data
System Requirements:
A full set of effects and editing features are included for professional sound production. Create high quality audio CDs by using GoldWave in conjunction with CD Recorder software.
Multiple Document Interface for working with many files in one session
Huge file editing: 4GB and beyond (NTFS only)
Configurable RAM or hard drive editing
High quality: 24 bit, 192kHz
Real-time visuals: bar, waveform, spectrogram, spectrum, VU meter, ...
Fast non-destructive editing. Cut, copy, delete, and undo take only a fraction of a second, regardless of the file size
In terms of value for money, I have not seen anything to compare with this, although, admittedly, I haven't felt the need to do much looking in the last few years since I started using it. Apart from the mass of features (many of which are way beyond my requirements), the main advantage of this package is the waveform display, which is much clearer by default than in any other low-cost waveform editor that I've seen and can be made infinitely (or should that be infinitesimally?) precise. The designer of GoldWave really, really knows his stuff!
It would, of course, be nice if it had its own disc burning facility (if that was of the same standard as the main program it would almost certainly knock all its competitors into a cocked hat). But not if it was likely to be an encumbrance on the main program.
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