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Product Review - Audiofile Wave Editor 1.4

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Published in SOS July 2009

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Audiofile Engineering’s elegant package offers impressive editing features at an affordable price.
Jason Grossman
This morning in the supermarket I bought myself a pack of deluxe clothes pegs. I think it was a good buy at £2.99 for 12. 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.
It’s the same with audio gear. Save just a smidgeon on those D-A converters and you can afford some nice software stocking-fillers. Wave Editor by Audiofile Engineering is a good example. At $79, it’s not a trivial purchase, especially if you’ve already got all its functions in Pro Tools. And anyway, you can get free programs which do more or less the same thing — Audacity, for example. But Audacity is the ordinary clothes peg, while at the other extreme Pro Tools is the executive dry-cleaning service. The deluxe clothes peg is Wave Editor.
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.
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