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cuz I can't recommend 8 yet...
install live8 demo and see if it works ok for you

Alright..
What about Adobe Audition?Does it have many features?

If you own Live, don't muck about. It does everything you need it to with audio sample manipulation, repeats, stutters, reverse, mangling, timestretching.

Whatever, if you own live and you aren't using it to do what you're trying to do, then you just don't know how to use Live properly.

sam90 wrote:Alright..
What about Adobe Audition?Does it have many features?

Yes, many. http://www.adobe.com/products/audition/features/

OldSkool

Unless you have a SPECIFIC reason for needing an audio editor - just use Live.

Live is approximately 1,000,000 times more powerful than hardware samplers of old, even just working with audio and manipulating it on the timeline.

Even more powerful is Instrument racks with several instances of Simpler or Sampler.

There isn't THAT much you can't do.

PS: Yes, nerds, I know, there are some things an audio editor is good for that Live can't do. However, the OP doesn't seem like he needs more than what's under the hood in Live.

I assumed it a given that Live is great for sampling, but it started to seem like the OP wanted more control over individual samples. So I recommended Audition. If you don't need to work with multiple file types, or batch processing, or advanced control over editing of audio, and all you want is a sampler. Live is great for that. Kontakt is the most powerful sampler that I know of, but it's too much for most of us. Live with racks and simplers is amazing.

This is true - but it's also true that Live is clunky and lacking in features for pure audio editing compared to many competitors. Cubase's sample editor, with a whole bunch of crossfades, automation curves, easy fade in and out handles, being able to process audio actions such as stats, gain change, remove dc offset etc offline, and process plugins offline, with a recallable and editable history and now with variaudio pitch correction etc is a powerful audio editor in comparison.

However, Soundforge has and always will be my audio editor of choice, super easy to use, super easy clipped peak restoration tools, superior stats and clipping detection, super easy fades/crossfades and magnifiable to a ridiculous level for accuracy, supports a bazillion file formats, hosts VST and DX plugins etc.

Audition is also very good, it mostly comes down to familiarity with Soundforge and the fact that I don't like Adobe products much that makes SF my personal preference. Audition has the advantage of being able to be used as a multi-track recorder, but I have Cubase, Live and Reaper already so I wouldn't get any mileage out of it that way.

I find Sampler adequate for most tasks in Live though without going to 3rd party tools.

I retract my last statement.

Get a damn SP-202.