jonc100
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Joined: 21/12/01
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Hi,
I'm wanting to buy a sound editor to edit samples i've taken.. Question is,
which one's are good and which one's are not so good!?
i've been looking at
adobe audition. I use Adobe products at work, so i'm used to the interface...
Any advice would be welcome!!!!
thanks
jon
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harvestthesouls
Joined: 22/12/08
Posts: 13
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Hi, if you wanted a simple audio editor that does what Audition does, the common names
thrown around are: Goldwave and Soundforge. Audition and Goldwave have quite similar
interfaces. Check out some screenshots.
But by the sounds of it, im assuming
you're trying to create your own sample library. For that you'll need something more
specialised. Gigastudio used to be the standard, but for various corporate ownership and
compatibility reasons, Native Instruments Kontakt has become the standard. Google any
professional sample library, it'll most likely be available in Kontakt format.
Hope this helps 
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jayzed
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Joined: 19/03/04
Posts: 679
Loc: North London
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Adobe Audition is a pretty good editor although I will say it's not really part of the
Adobe family look and feel yet, although they are moving it across slowly.
The other main choices most well known would be Wavelab and Soundforge.
I
haven't used Soundforge for a while but it used to be pretty slick on the sample creation
front. I use Wavelab 6.1 but don't use any of the editing fuctions for sample editing. I
use it for two track editing, mastering and CD creation. Unexpectedly, I also use it as my
main archive tool, it's quite good at creating data DVDs and as I know I'll always have a
copy of Wavelab I use it in preference to something like Nero. It does, however, have some
pretty good sample editing stuff as well and I love the 'master section' way of inserting
plugins.
The thing with Wavelab is that it is expensive - I bought it on a
Steinberg special a couple of versions ago.
I think you'd find Audition or
Soundforge would both do just about anything you want to do - all three of these apps now
have spectrum editing which is great when you need it, although you could probably get one
of the capable, cheaper apps mentioned and a copy of iZotopes RX to have this covered.
One of the computers at work that runs Audition is quite flaky but this may not
be Auditions' fault.
Audition is also a pretty useful DAW (with VERY limited
MIDI) in one of it's modes, so if you think you might need multi-track (as opposed to
surround, which they all do now, I believe) then Audition is definitely looking good. You
could, for example, rewire Reason and have a perfectly good MIDI and Audio sequencer type
thingy!
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Bob Moose
Joined: 17/01/08
Posts: 361
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Hello,
Try Wavosaur, I don't really know how good it is compared to Wavelab and
the like, but it's a freeware:
http://www.wavosaur.com/
Cheers
-j
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John Willett
Circle Sound Services
Joined: 07/03/00
Posts: 11030
Loc: Oxfordshire UK
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Samplitude is
excellent, I have used it for years.
Samplitude LE is very inexpensive and you
can also download a trial version of Samplitude Pro (full version, limited life) if you
want to try before you buy.
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John
President - Fédération Internationale des Chasseurs de Sons
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jonc100
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Joined: 21/12/01
Posts: 6
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Hi,
thanks for the advice. in the end i went for Adobe audition, i have to say
i love it. it's really what i needed.
thanks again..
jon
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