Perhaps I'd consider free alternatives, but since I mostly hear "Audacity" when asking for "the best free editor", I haven't looked much further. ACID Pro is great for electronic music, hip hop, and any loop-based music production such as for videogame soundtracks. Is Audio Studio usable enough, or extremely dumbed down? No fancy effects or stuff only relevant to music production (well maybe some basic filtering every now and then). Sony Creative Software (Makes Sound Forge. How castrated is it really compared to the real deal?Īctually I usually don't need more than basic wave editing, format conversions of all sorts, etc. Logic Pro Audio has been around for a while and is one of the top programs. I've read some bad comments about the cheap version, "Audio Studio". I intend to ask the guys from upstairs to buy some Sound Forge version, a current version like Pro 10 is a bit expensive for the not so frequent use, and ebay here doesn't list older versions anymore, too bad.
A good example being Crown/JBL building Mark Levinson gear, the only difference being one got a simple black box and costs 1500, one got a shiny.
While at home I have my good old Sound Forge from good ol' times when this stuff was bundled with expensive sound cards, at work I currently use the free Audacity.īut it's getting on my nerves, the lack of features and mostly, the clumsy way to achieve things. Definetly the low level sound reinforcement type gear is not going to sound good but the high level pro audio gear is typically built by the same people who designed and built high level home gear. In other words, if youve got a recording of a guitar and base. That means you cant use it very effectively to mix several separate audio recordings. At work I occasionally have to fiddle with audio files. Sound Forge is a single track audio editor.