Audacity/Audition alternatives?

[porina]

Just thought I'd throw this out in case I missed something. I'm looking for something that is easy to edit wav files, cut paste, chop, trim, level adjust, optionally frequency and dynamic filters may be nice to have. Syntrillium CoolEdit would be my ideal, except Adobe bought them out years ago and now resell it at vast cost as Audition. Audacity can kinda do what I want but it isn't native wav and I don't want to deal with its quirky file format and export, although this is my best current known option.

 

Commercial software is an option, just not Adobe pricing.

[mariushm]

Goldwave (very old i remember it from the Windows 98 days) : https://www.goldwave.com/

Magix Sound Forge (ex Sonic Foundry Soundforge before they were bought by Sony I think, who recently sold their software division to Magix) : https://www.magix.com/int/music/sound-forge/

 

Somewhat of a gray area legality wise ... quoting myself from a previous post i made:

 

Adobe also has all the Adobe CS2 products freely available on their website, here's the link : LINK

 

Click on "I accept" checkbox and then on English, and you have downloads and the serial links for every CS2 product of theirs, including Adobe Audition

 

The downloads and serials are supposed to be for CS2 buyers, who can't activate their software anymore because Adobe disabled the activation servers for CS2...

It's technically a grey area, you're supposed to have bought the software, but since they no longer support them...

 

You have Adobe Audition 3 there, old but for basic editing who cares how old it is.

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[porina]

56 minutes ago, mariushm said:

Goldwave (very old i remember it from the Windows 98 days) : https://www.goldwave.com/

Magix Sound Forge (ex Sonic Foundry Soundforge before they were bought by Sony I think, who recently sold their software division to Magix) : https://www.magix.com/int/music/sound-forge/

Thanks for the suggestions. Sound Forge looks a bit spendy though. Goldwave I will look at more closely.

 

56 minutes ago, mariushm said:

You have Adobe Audition 3 there, old but for basic editing who cares how old it is.

At work I have two licences of Audition 1.5 and one CS6. The 1.5 versions are so old they make Win7 drop out of Aero mode, but do just fine for what we use it for. Actually prefer it over CS6 as that's just bloat. When it comes to sound editing, it isn't an area that has seen as much advancement as video for example, so older tools are generally still just fine.

[mariushm]

4 minutes ago, porina said:

Thanks for the suggestions. Sound Forge looks a bit spendy though. Goldwave I will look at more closely.

 

 

I wouldn't call 29$ expensive, in the case of Sonic Forge 12 Audio Studio: https://www.amazon.com/SOUND-FORGE-Audio-Studio-plug/dp/B074PYNPJK/ref=dp_ob_title_sw

 

And you can often get older versions cheaper on Amazon like for example Audio Studio 10 for 20$: https://www.amazon.com/Sound-Forge-Audio-Studio-10/dp/B01MS1NCRA/

 

A bit off topic but I'd also mention It's worth subscribing to Humble Bundle and other such services.

Right after Sony sold their software division to Magix I bought a package that included Vegas Pro Edit 14 (~399$ on amazon retail) and Xara Web Designer / Photo & Graphic Designer and and a bunch of other software for around 40-50$ ... i forget the exact value.

The latest Vegas Pro Edit 16 is on sale right now on their site for 299 euro but there's very few extra features that I'd care about, and none I can't work around with the 14 version.

 

[porina]

30 minutes ago, mariushm said:

I wouldn't call 29$ expensive, in the case of Sonic Forge 12 Audio Studio: https://www.amazon.com/SOUND-FORGE-Audio-Studio-plug/dp/B074PYNPJK/ref=dp_ob_title_sw

I ended up looking at the Pro version in the hundreds. Didn't see that version.

30 minutes ago, mariushm said:

The latest Vegas Pro Edit 16 is on sale right now on their site for 299 euro but there's very few extra features that I'd care about, and none I can't work around with the 14 version.

I recently bought Vegas Pro 16 directly from Magix for £109 - but it was as an upgrade from a cheap old version I got from Humble Bundle previously. I look at their regular bundles but don't see any reason to subscribe monthly.