Topic: favorite audio editing software?

[deadheadcorey]

I've played around with Wavelab a few times and found it somewhat easy to figure out. What you guys think is the most newbie friendly audio editing software out there?

[Gordon]

wavelab

[DLay]

Audacity is the most newbie friendly in my book, though its limited...

Pro Tools 7.3 is my go to as of now. I've invested far too much time in it to even considering opening another program.

[newplanet7]

Soundforge
Wavelab

[Chuck]

WaveLab
CuBase

[Brian Skalinder]

Favorite and newbie-friendly aren't necessarily the same.  I've tried Audacity, Audition, Reaper, Samplitude, and Wavelab.  I found both Audition and Audacity easy to learn.  Samplitude's my favorite, with Reaper a close 2nd.

[WiFiJeff]

I use Wavelab 6.0, which has no file length issues as earlier versions did.

But as a necessary step before CDing, you've gotta try iZotope RX2, either as standalone or a VST plugin in Wavelab.  Really cleans up the crap (coughs, ticks, hum, everything).  Very labor-intensive, but worth every minute.

Jeff

[bobinchicago]

I guess I'm the first Mac user up, so I'll mention Amadeus Pro. Audacity's user interface makes my head hurt. I used to love Sound Studio, but a few consecutive versions got pretty crashy on me. (This was in its 3.x days; 4.x might be much better.)

[DigiGal]

Second Mac user chiming in: I use and recommend Audiofile Engineering's Wave Editor. 

http://www.audiofile-engineering.com/waveeditor/techspecs.php

http://www.audiofile-engineering.com/waveeditor/

[boyacrobat]

cubase
nuendo
wavelab

g

[Scooter123]

Goldwave, which is similar to Wavelab.  It can handle mutliple commands at once in a batch file, so you can highpass, compress, volume boost all in a single click. 

[ashevillain]

I guess I'm the first Mac user up, so I'll mention Amadeus Pro. Audacity's user interface makes my head hurt. I used to love Sound Studio, but a few consecutive versions got pretty crashy on me. (This was in its 3.x days; 4.x might be much better.)

I've been using Sound Studio since the 2.x versions (on 3.6 right now) and never had any issues with it crashing. I love it. I would like to try 4.x and also would love to try the OSX version of Wavelab...but I'm also thinking that there is really nothing wrong with my current process (ain't broke, don't fix it, etc.)

- I tried Wave Editor and didn't really care for it but maybe I didn't give it a fair enough chance.
- Audacity for Mac is just ok. It's kind of clunky and I only use it rarely...sometimes it's easier than Sound Studio to do matrices with.
- Spark XL was awesome. Too bad it doesn't work with Snow Leopard!

[DLay]

I guess I'm the first Mac user up, so I'll mention Amadeus Pro.

I run Pro Tools on my mac. 

[bobinchicago]

Second Mac user chiming in: I use and recommend Audiofile Engineering's Wave Editor. 

http://www.audiofile-engineering.com/waveeditor/techspecs.php

http://www.audiofile-engineering.com/waveeditor/

Thanks for the recommendation -- always happy to try new toys.

[Shadow_7]

Audacity

As far as applications that can run in linux natively.  And has semi-intuitive editing capabilities (and a GUI).  And if all you need is to trim and apply a little gain, more than sufficient.  It has a nyquist interfacing option too.  Or if you're senile you can run nyquist directly from the cli with a script or interactively.