Inexpensive software for limited editing

Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 8:05 am

I bought an Edirol R-09 flash recorder a month ago and it has been a big hit around our house. My wife and daughter use it all the time for recording music lessons and practice sessions.

While I have facilities to edit the wav files on my setup, it would be nice if they had something inexpensive and simple to use on their machines. Nither of them have done much editing on my PT system. (I probably should get them to learn and this may be the motivation.)

Anyway, I'm looking an inexpensive, easy to learn piece of software that will take .wav files and allow us to
1. trim
2. fade
3. EQ
4. Compress
5. Limit
6. Reverb
Price is obviously an issue, but I'm willing to pay a few bucks for things like good documentation. If you can throw in conversion to MP3 that would be nice as well.

Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 8:21 am

Wavelab Essential is about $100. Otherwise I bet someone can point you to some freeware too.

Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 8:28 am

Acoustica by Acon Digital Media, about $30. Nero Ultra 6 CD Burning utility has a wave editor, but it's quirky.

Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 8:44 am

Get Audacity it's free and it's can do all that plus convert to mp3 (with the plug in, which is also free)

Download Site:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

LAME mp3 encoder:
http://lame.buanzo.com.ar/

Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 6:20 pm

+1

Audacity is the easiest software to use and its a freebie

Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 10:29 am

I've heard really good things from friends about Reaper.

It's free and it seems to have all the common things you'd need.

http://reaper.fm/

--tz

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