What's a good bit of audio software?

nekokate · Post by **nekokate** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 5:19 pm

Hope this is an ok question to ask here...

I'm getting more and more into mixing/looping music, and I was wondering if anyone can point me in the direction of some decent software that would make it easier for me. So far I've been using pretty lame techniques with Roxio AudioCentral (which I think is only really designed for chopping the beginning or end off tracks).

Any advice, couchers?

Post by **faceless** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 5:31 pm

moved this in here as it's media tips...

I recommend Goldwave for editing samples - www.goldwave.com it's what I use for pretty much everything.

nekokate · Post by **nekokate** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 6:37 pm

Thanks, Faceless. I'll check that out!

Griffo · Post by **Griffo** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 10:21 pm

Couple of good peices of software used by music makers is Fruity Loops and Ableton. Both awesome programs.

nekokate · Post by **nekokate** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 6:00 pm

Cool. Thanks, Griffo

luke · Post by **luke** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 10:28 pm

what do you actually wanna do kate? for editing files, changing the volume, fading in, out, converting formats, certain effects etc, soundforge is the don, if you wanna mix say mp3's together - mixmeister is really good, or you want to make your own music with a mixture of samples and plug in instruments, like griffo recommends, fruityloops is wicked

Brown Sauce · Post by **Brown Sauce** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 11:27 am

i like mixmeister very much, great for setting up party music, I've done 10 hrs with it, no repeats, ain't limewire great

but anything after V5 is overblown in my opinion.

for editing and adding effects, I tried loads, bought gold wave

, then found "cool edit pro", that was bought by adobe and is now called audition. It's up to v2, but that too is overblown, and I've settled on v 1.5.

need any of it, with an extended indefinite trial period let me know ..

Sheffman · Post by **Sheffman** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 8:06 pm

nekokate wrote:Hope this is an ok question to ask here...

I'm getting more and more into mixing/looping music, and I was wondering if anyone can point me in the direction of some decent software that would make it easier for me. So far I've been using pretty lame techniques with Roxio AudioCentral (which I think is only really designed for chopping the beginning or end off tracks).

Any advice, couchers?

... I've used the older version of Cool Edit Pro for a few years now, it will do everything you mention plus loads more, I also use it for recording stuff from the net (streams) If anyone wants to give it a try I've uploaded it HERE

Brown Sauce · Post by **Brown Sauce** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 6:53 am

24 mb ?? I might get rid of adobes overblown effort and get back to the roots

Sheffman · Post by **Sheffman** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:50 am

Brown Sauce wrote:24 mb ?? I might get rid of adobes overblown effort and get back to the roots

... yes, it's surprisingly small, although very powerful.

luke · Post by **luke** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 1:19 pm

nice one sheffman, i had to reinstall my computer the last few days and can't find my soundforge cd, so i'm going to try your cool edit pro

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What's a good bit of audio software?

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