decent sample editor for pc

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 4:38 pm

what is a decent shareware/freeware sample editor for pc?
i need something to use with live on the pc side..

Martyn · Post by **Martyn** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 7:26 pm

Have you looked at Goldwave? It lets you try it for a good while as freeware and is only about 25 quid to buy.
Cool edit is another good medium priced editor too It's now called Adobe Audition cos they bought it.

http://www.goldwave.com/release.html

rasputin · Post by **rasputin** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 9:22 pm

I plunked down the money for Goldwave after using it in "nag" mode for a month or so. Well worth the small cost they ask. A new version came out a few days ago that's even better (5.06) -- the upgrade was free for me.

Goldwave is very fast; it opens and saves a 5MB take in just a couple of seconds on a 2.0GHZ P4. It has never crashes, hung or done anything bad since I've used it. It's my default Ableton editor now.

I do like the looks etc of Cool Edit but I won't pay Adobe USD200 for it. To hell with them. The one feature it has I wish Goldwave had is the statistics function which gives the peak, RMS, etc. values for the file.

retropublik · Post by **retropublik** » Tue Nov 04, 2003 12:31 pm

sound forge - all day every day

arar · Post by **arar** » Tue Nov 04, 2003 12:36 pm

Goldwave is good, i used it till I saved up for soundforge..

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Nov 04, 2003 10:33 pm

how do you change wav editors?

ethereon · Post by **ethereon** » Sat Nov 08, 2003 9:44 pm

in live?

preferences...

i like wavelab

Kerrydan · Post by **Kerrydan** » Mon Nov 10, 2003 1:09 am

I'm happy with Audacity - it's a free open-source audio editor (it's cross-platform, too).

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
-K

genshi · Post by **genshi** » Wed Nov 12, 2003 4:20 am

On my Powerbook, the free Bias Peak LE that was being offered (not sure if it is anymore) and on my PC I just switched to Wavelab, but for the longest time I was using Audacity on both platforms and it IS amazingly good and solid for a free audio editor.

Mbazzy · Post by **Mbazzy** » Wed Nov 12, 2003 9:06 am

Depends for what you need it, for basic almost on the fly editing -- The Yamaha TWE :

It's ultra fast , launches in a snap [ the *.exe is 952 kb ... ] and has a good basic set of features that you need for editing files [ no vst/direct X efx can't be used though ] :

reverse
invert
fade in
fade out
loop crossfade
eq
Time comp
Pitch shift
Gain
Normalize
Silence
DC OffSet

I can recommend it very highly for use with Live for sample editing : http://www.yamahasynth.com/down/twe/index.html