KISS Wave Editor 1. Official site: the Size: 51 KB the Price: free-of-charge Working window KISS Wave Editor the Unique reason on which KISS Wave Editor it has appeared in the given guidebook is its price. The sound editor is free-of-charge software product. All other programs considered in the guidebook (except for Audacity), are on sale, at times, for very large sums.
The editor has style registration, in many respects copying Mac OS X. If developers have guessed to hide somewhere the main menu – similarity would become amazing.
You can open and process only files in not compressed format WAV. Preservation also is accessible only in the given format. If to consider, that in life WAV it is used unless in library of standard sounds Windows it turns out, that KISS Wave Editor it is suitable only for editing keeping lab notebook record various two-second exclamations and error messages. Certainly, you can unpack the favourite compositions exclusively to edit them in the described wave editor, but this improbable succession of events.
The more you work in the editor, the there is an impression more strongly, that developers specially did all badly, inconveniently, illogically. What for in similar programs the technology of markers, regions is pawned? All this is done, that it was convenient to user to mark the certain positions inside of a melody. Frequently work goes practically in real time, that is labels are put directly during reproduction of audio. Not only that in KISS Wave Editor it is necessary to click two times the mouse on heading of the sound panel so still after that the dialogue window with a serial number of a current label is displayed. What for? Its closing takes away superfluous time. The manager of markers KISS Wave Editor Application of effects and filters is executed the same spirit of absurdity, absurdity. All keeping lab notebook record without exception of updating are applied without an opportunity of any preliminary adjustment. Differently, in all processable compositions the identical echo, vibrato and other effects turns out. KISS Wave Editor supports wave and spectral representation of audiodata. You can keep a sound variant on a hard disk in the form of a graphic file. It, likely, surprisingly valuable function aimed at those who likes to look at music that it to listen. Preservation can be carried out only in format BMP. An excellent choice. Actually, on a hard disk the fragment of a working window of the appendix, its wave panel is transferred only. Under a kind of unique function banal removal of a screenshot is offered to us.
You can load KISS Wave Editor, look at this unique software product with only one purpose – the eyes to see a scandalous example of how it is not necessary to create wave editors. When it is too keeping lab notebook record much tragedy, the comedy begins. Use KISS Wave Editor causes only laughter through tears of disappointment.
Magix Sequoia 8. Official site: the Size: 673 KB the Price: 3770. $ Working window Magix Sequoia Magix Sequoia – the most powerful software package for professional use in manufacture of audio. The musical editor represents the studio, allowing to operate with several paths with the purpose of processing and data of audio. You can or create the project with use of patterns, or simply open an audio-file on editing. In second case Sequoia will work as the traditional sound editor. If all of you have dared to begin work above the project consisting of several paths you should specify their maximum quantity, frequency of digitization, and also a little bit especially service options. As the data loaded into paths, files of traditional audio-formats, MIDI, and also tracks Audio CD can act. Cyrillics in names and descriptions of paths is supported not full as inside of a working window of the appendix instead of it unprintable symbols are displayed.
Besides the standard paths used as carriers of the audioinformation, you can organize treki-papki. The similar decision allows keeping lab notebook record to unite virtually some paths in a single whole. At work with the complex material, the similar decision strongly saves free space on a desktop. Processing of a separate path in Magix Sequoia you can use up to independent channels of a conclusion of a sound from which it is possible to simulate systems 5.1, 6.1, 7.0, 7.1, 8.0, 8.1, 10.2. For maintenance of a realistic spatial sound the set of effects and special modules of processing is included in structure Sequoia. As examples it is possible to mention a multichannel equalizer, about an opportunity of management of panoramas Surround, about the emulator of acoustics of the premises, working, that is important, in a mode of real time. Sequoia supports many usual effects which, in the majority, are calculated on imitation of analog sounding. The editor contains the program synthesizer MAGIX Robota Pro simulating 8-golosny'y the analog tool. Sequoia the manager of doubles allowing during record to systematize a material contains. We shall admit, you keeping lab notebook record have decided to sing a melody and to write down the voice from a microphone. Most likely, from the first at you well it will not turn out, some doubles is required. By means of the special manager it is possible to specify to the program of border of doubles then in the future to choose the best variant. Besides Sequoia has function Take Composer which is intended for graphic editing and creation of a track from fragments of several doubles. The editor contains the module of repeated mixture (remixing) with the purpose of creation zaciklenny'h rhythmic or melodic phrases. The primitive editor MIDI is included in structure Sequoia, allowing to create simple melodies. Input of separate notes, and also the whole chords is supposed. The editor contains a plenty of effects and filters, including connected modules DirectX and VST. Besides keeping lab notebook record the editor supports technology ReWire including carry of a card of rate, VST-e`ffektov and tools. Editor MIDI in Magix Sequoia At preservation of the project used pulse responses, sound samples vokodera and the frozen projects are remembered. Sequoia has 48-kanal'ny'y the board of mixing of paths. Besides an opportunity of extraction of paths Audio CD, the editor allows to burn optical disks independently. Adjustment of parameters of the project of record is scattered on numerous windows, the menu that is not absolutely convenient. The module of record of disks supports also format DVD Audio. Inside of working windows of the majority of tools smoothing fonts TrueType is not supported. If you never used and not going to use the piracy software, it is better to think some times before to buy Sequoia. Even if you are a skilled musician, three with superfluous can be spent thousand dollars for the decision of more essential problems. What complex and multipurpose was not software product, its price is obviously overestimated. The given editor especially is not necessary to beginning users, as it is extremely combined in development, strongly overloaded by especially keeping lab notebook record professional tools.
Nero WaveEditor 3.5.6. Official site: the Size: N/A (is a part Nero Ultra Edition) the Price: 59. Euro (price Nero Ultra Edition) Working window Nero WaveEditor Being a part of large popular software product, Nero WaveEditor already for a long time costs on a plenty of workstations. The interface of basic components Nero Ultra Edition is unified, and the sound editor – not exception. Conclusive advantage of the program is presence of russification of all the menu, the text information inside of working windows. Among programs of the given class Russian of the interface – the unique phenomenon. And if to consider, that the knowledge of English language is not for us obligatory attribute there is, that for many a given product – almost unique accessible to understanding, despite of a plenty of competitors. Nero WaveEditor – very simple editor possessing only base functions of updating of audio-files. Many convenient service opportunities are absent, and speech does not go about something supercomplex. We shall admit, keeping lab notebook record absence of a mode of editing of several independent paths really explainably. Data of compositions from several paths – rather a serious problem which is not strongly demanded among simple users. But it is a little bit strange, that developers of so powerful, flexible product did not realize in the wave editor some elementary functions – an opportunity of installation of any number of labels, opening of several documents inside of a working window of the appendix, flexibly adjusted panel of tools owing to which to the user it not should to address practically for each function to the main menu. Hot keys also are not appointed to many popular, daily, routine tools. During work with graphic structure of an audio-signal there is no contextual menu, all should be caused functions after long movings the cursor of the mouse. Nesmotrya for declared support VST of plug-ins, after installation of some modules, the editor at all refuses to be started.
However, if requirements to the editor are limited to simple manipulations, for example, to cut off a song for a mobile phone, to remove clicks from microphonic record of a keeping lab notebook record voice, to compress a melody with the purpose of fast transfer on the Network Nero WaveEditor is a convenient, reasonable choice. For example, you open a melody, allocate on it a fragment, allow a command "To cut off". Further you keep the received composition, using a mode mono and low speed of the dataflow. The melody on a call from the favourite person is ready. For the similar purposes it is not required anything supernatural, complex, not ordinary. Application of reverberation in Nero WaveEditor the Editor possesses the unified interface of all filters, effects, tools. You can listen to a melody in real time and correct parameters of effects. Thus the length of a reproduced fragment is not limited by time frameworks. Speaking a simple language, you do not need to hasten anywhere and the keeping lab notebook record more so, to puzzle, blindly selecting adjustments. It is enough to allocate a necessary fragment of a melody, to cause necessary effect, to include reproduction then it is possible to adjust without superfluous vanity all parameters. Removal of clicks in Nero WaveEditor the Editor supports a compression of data in format MP3pro possessing higher quality at equal with traditional MP of speed of the dataflow. However, for reproduction of a format with a prefix pro special programs of decoding which it can and not appear in your player are required. The information to software product is accessible only in English and does not enter into distribution kit Nero Ultra Edition. However, the given editor, at presence at the user even base skills of processing of audio, practically does not cause difficulties in development. Nero WaveEditor – the simple, convenient sound editor for the unprepared users, decided to borrow in editing of audio, but any concrete requirements not showing to a product.
NGWave 3. Official site: the Size: 36 KB the keeping lab notebook record Price: 29. $ Working window NGWave NGWave – the compact, fast sound editor possessing base opportunities of work with audiodata. The small size of the distribution kit has provided the simple interface, without any excesses. Panels of tools kak-libo to change it is impossible, inside of the main menu there are no pictograms.
You can open some files simultaneously, being switched between them by means of the panel vkladok, located under wave representation of audiodata. It would be logical to assume presence of function of mixing of contents of the open documents. However similar function is absent, it is necessary for you to copy all over again data in the buffer of an exchange, then to be switched to other document and to choose a mode of an insert with mixing.
Markers in the program are absent as a class. All of allocation should be carried out manually, the user is guided, being based on visual memory and constant inclusion of reproduction. All this hlopotno. Besides work with fragments without markers is keeping lab notebook record the reason of very low accuracy vy'deleniy. Management of reproduction is executed very conveniently. The blank switches playing and a pause, and all other actions are adhered to function keys. The set of operations is wide enough and includes normal and high-speed playback in both directions, a pause and a stop, transition by the end of a composition and another.
All effects and filters are collected in the groups, separate dropping out menus. The high-grade, flexible adjustments including, among other things, an opportunity of a choice of subject programs have the majority of tools. Operating reverberation, you can to specify, for example, the size of a simulated premise and a material of which walls are made. Application of reverberation in NGWave For those who likes to write down any alive musical parties, the editor contains a metronome. You can adjust loudness of a submitted signal, speed of a rhythm. Besides as the additional channel of submission of the information inclusion of blinking figures keeping lab notebook record inside of the panel of the indicator is supposed. Metronome NGWave NGWave supports technology of preservation of sessions. At any moment you can return to that condition on which have finished the previous session. If with the program some users each of them can get own session work. The program possesses the convenient contextual information. Inside of dialogue windows of many tools there is reference Quick Info, having clicked the mouse on which, it is possible to open an additional window with the description of work of the functions involved in given effect or the filter. NGWave – the ambiguous sound editor. If not the annoying lack connected with absence of support of markers the program could be recommended safely for the decision of simple, amateur problems. But, remembering what even the elementary operations of allocation of fragments are interfaced to greater difficulties, it is necessary to do a conclusion about imbalance of software product. To apply for something serious, it is necessary to have support of base functions, at least.
Sony Sound Forge Official site: the Size: 433 KB the Price: 69. $ Working window Sony Sound Forge Sound Forge is one of the most known, popular, checked keeping lab notebook record up time of editors for processing audio-files. More than ten years, from the middle of the ninetieth years of the last century, the software product develops in an evolutionary key, not losing the urgency. Several years ago the largest world corporation has become interested in the program, result of it became purchase of wave editor Sound Forge.
Sound Forge allows to work with 64-bitny'm a sound at frequency 1 kilogerca, that satisfies with everything, even to the most exacting requirements. As comparison it is necessary to remind, that on a musical compact disc the sound enters the name with word length of bats and frequency of digitization 44. kilogerca. You can open files in not compressed format WAV, and also in MP3, OGG, and WMA. Sound Forge allows to take also audiopaths from videofiles in format AVI. Opening of video occurs in the combined kind. In the keeping lab notebook record top part of a working window the staff of film, and from below - wave forms of a sound track are displayed. It is not necessary to underestimate utility of the similar decision. Many women, for example, like to use in mobile phones the melodies taken from cartoon films or any house records (wedding, a birth of the child). You open a file, on the staff find the necessary place and take a necessary site.
Long time the editor supported only DirectX plug-ins, that, certainly, limited freedom of a choice of effects. Since the eighth version, Sound Forge can use also VST plug-ins. Besides the eighth version of the editor has learned to cooperate with sound cards by means of drivers ASIO. Sound Forge allows to work only with one sound track, that is, it is intended, first of all, for editing sound samples – samples. keeping lab notebook record Besides you can break files into regions, zaciklivat' reproduction that is demanded during manufacturing shock parties. It is possible to transform any allocated area for what it is enough to allocate area of data in a file into region and to press key R. Similar elements inside of a composition can be a little. Actually, the region represents two markers - initial and closing which are put by a key of M. Double click by the mouse inside of region allocates the area limited by markers. Further it is possible to divide a file into separate fragments and to apply function of extraction of regions. Thus each element will be kept in a separate file. Sound Forge possesses function of automation of the given process which marks regions inside of a path according to a level and characteristics of a signal.
The sound editor contains a standard set of effects, for example, an echo, chorus, reverberation. You can destroy noise, since the certain level of a signal. Sound Forge has the powerful dynamic compressor. For example, you have written down the voice from a microphone. You say any phrases more loudly, any is more silent. Using the compressor, it is keeping lab notebook record possible to strengthen weak and average levels of a signal, that, having made the final document with equal, dense sounding. On radio stations of a voice of leaders are processed on the air by a similar method in real time by means of the special equipment. And during manufacturing advertising and other rollers, use of the program compressor – a paramount problem. Dynamic equalizer Sony Sound Forge In Sound Forge is present interesting effect - the built in acoustic reverberator. It allows to apply the acoustic impulses created in real premises to a sound. The technology of creation of similar impulses is in detail described in the documentation to the editor. Its competent use is interfaced to exact calculations and demands good understanding of all processes. But as a reciprocal gift you receive naturally sounding, natural reverberation. From other built in effects it is necessary to note WaveHammer – the amplifier of a level of a signal, means for smooth shift of notes (can be useful if you sing keeping lab notebook record false), shift of waves concerning axis X (if their form is not aligned). Architecture Sound Forge allows to apply to a signal only one effect simultaneously. Speaking language of the user operations, you cause a working window of effect, operate its options, include preliminary listening, and then make application. Further it is possible to adjust and apply effect following on turn. However, the editor contains the manager of chains of effects by means of whom it is possible to automate the given procedures. You simply specify sequence of actions which will be then applied to the current document. The most demanded effects can be united by means of the special manager. The manager of selected effects Sony Sound Forge Sound Forge approaches for creation and processing of the loops, repeating sound fragments. The editor includes keeping lab notebook record the special tool by means of which it is possible zaciklit' any sound so, that its termination will smoothly pass in the beginning. Besides Sound Forge gives for the similar purposes set of the adjustments inherent in a format of other popular product from Sony - Acid. Sound Forge has means of interface to hardware samplers by means of which you can send, and also take sounds from memory of the connected device.
Sound Forge allows to take paths Audio CD, keeping them in formats MP or Ogg Vorbis. Besides in the editor is built in the module projiga optical disks. You can use only mode Track At Once. Thus on bolvanku it is possible to write down the current document in the form of a separate path. It is easy to guess, that it is very inconvenient, as you should open manually each time a new file and to send it on a disk. Besides before record of last composition it is necessary to fix in the obvious image current session on an optical disk. Sound Forge contains keeping lab notebook record rich functions of the analysis of the sound, including the spectral analyzer, the detailed statistics displaying, in particular, peak and minimal values of loudness, function of detection of the sites which are being outside a dynamic range. The riches, a variety of opportunities Sound Forge do not transform the program into a complex complex for development. The editor is surprisingly simple and accessible to understanding even to the beginners who have hardly mastered elements of work behind a computer. First, you can establish russification that removes a language barrier. The panel of tools is not overloaded by monotonous menus, buttons – all is executed very logically, with taste. Pictograms opposite to each item of the menu at once let know, at least, about what speech in this or that function will go. Work with keeping lab notebook record markers and regions is executed in conformity by laws of logic, common sense. For example, you have put two markers. For certain, it is made not simply so, and with the purpose of the subsequent allocation of the given fragment. If in other editors you should make various operations for realization of similar allocation in Sound Forge it is enough to click two times the mouse between labels. The third click automatically expands allocation to the sizes of the document.
Many popular actions, methods of adjustment of effects are born in separate preliminary installations. For example, the dynamic equalizer has the separate installation which is carrying out a compression of a signal. The user does not need to puzzle over how to draw a curve of distribution of loudness, how to adjust a signal. It is enough to choose only a corresponding element in the list of installations. Thus simplicity of the editor does not become the reason of its primitiveness, neglect from experienced users - musicians, sound producers. Sound Forge keeping lab notebook record has high enough popularity, both among beginners, and in the ranks of professionals.
The summary table Editing and the data of several paths - + - - - Editing of several documents inside of one working window of the appendix - + - + + Preservation of data in the form of projects - + - - + Batch operation of files - + - - + Unlimited quantity of markers + + - - + Imposing of effects in real time - + + - - Base effects + + + + + Filters of restoration of a sound - + + - + Support of 5. channels - + + - - Record of a sound with word length above bats - + + + + DirectX plug-ins - + + - + VST plug-ins - + + - + the Organization of bookmarks from favourite effects - + - - + Scripts - + - - + Treatment of paths of CD Audio - + - - + Extraction of audio of paths from video-files - - - - + Import MIDI-faylov - + - - - MIDI-redaktor - + keeping lab notebook record - - - History of commands - - + + - Russian of the interface - - + - * * - informal support KISS Wave Editor Magix Sequoia Nero WaveEditor NGWave Sony Sound Forge