But like a good mid-fielder, its apparent straightforwardness hides a wealth of skills. Wave Editor looks simple when you first open it up. Mono, stereo and all the commonly used surround sound formats are supported, and I'm pleased to say that the user‑interface infelicity I've described above will be fixed in the forthcoming version 1.4.5 of Wave Editor, which should be current by the time you read this. This opens files in pretty much any sound format, using the Mac's built‑in QuickTime for anything Wave Editor doesn't know how to process itself.
What do you mean it won't open sound files? The answer is that to open sound files in most of the supported formats you have to use the 'Import.' command. One you'd better know about is that dragging a file onto the program icon, or using 'Open.' in the File menu, will not open sound files in most of the formats that Wave Editor supports. So can I use Wave Editor just by playing, not reading? Yes.
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If I have to read the manual, well, then, Wave Editor's manual is terrific, much better than most. The freeware Audacity ( ) is, in my view, clunk city in the user‑interface department, so let's reserve that for the really poverty‑stricken.įor me, the most important fact about any program is whether I can use it without reading the manual.
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So what's the advantage of the deluxe clothes peg over your DAW? Well, a specialised stereo editing program, if it's any good, will start up faster, run on smaller machines (useful on the road), and offer just the right tools for a quick editing job without the so‑beautiful‑I‑could‑eat‑them interfaces for synths, sequencers and kitchen sinks all screaming for your attention at the same time.Īlternatives to Wave Editor for the Macintosh include BIAS Peak Pro 6 (reviewed in January's Sound On Sound: /sos/jan09/articles/peak6.htm), DSP Quattro (SOS April 2003: /sos/apr03/articles/i3dspquattro.asp) and Rogue Amoeba's Fission ( Fission is probably the best alternative for comparison, because it's cheap as chips at $32, although it has significantly fewer functions than Wave Editor. But Audacity is the ordinary clothes peg, while at the other extreme Pro Tools is the executive dry‑cleaning service. And anyway, you can get free programs which do more or less the same thing - Audacity, for example. At $79, it's not a trivial purchase, especially if you've already got all its functions in Pro Tools. Wave Editor by Audiofile Engineering is a good example.
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Save just a smidgeon on those D-A converters and you can afford some nice software stocking‑fillers. Even when I'm a bit short of the readies, my theory is that it's better to splurge on really nice clothes pegs and, if necessary, economise on the expensive things in life to make up for it.
I think it was a good buy at £2.99 for 12. This morning in the supermarket I bought myself a pack of deluxe clothes pegs. Other useful Processor options include Normalise, Dither and Remove DC Offset. Wave Editor's main waveform display, with layer control in a pop‑out tab, and Inspector and Processor windows. Audiofile Engineering's elegant package offers impressive editing features at an affordable price.
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