Overview:

Audio Editors: Audio editing allows the manipulation of audio files including cut and paste operations, filters and audio restoration tools. Because of audio editing being a science on its own, Audio Editors vary in difficulty and broadness of offered features, which may include support for digital audio extraction, various file formats, writing audio tracks on cd and more.

ASIA

• Version Number: 2.12
• Revision Date: 28 February 2001
• Licence: Freeware
• Manufacturer: Technion Computer Music Engineering Lab.
• Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Platform/9182/
• Description: Simple audio editor feauturing all basic effects and common operations, including convolution, reverse, graphical and parametric equalizer and more.
  

Audacity

• Version Number: 1.1.2 beta
• Revision Date: 31 January 2003
• Licence: Open Source
• Manufacturer: Dominic Mazzoni
• Home Page: http://audacity.sourceforge.net
• Description: A simple audio editor with MP3 support, basic filters and effects and free wave form shaping. (Note: Audacity is available on many platfroms, including Linux and MacOsX)
  

CD Wave

• Version Number: 1.72
• Revision Date: 12 September 2002
• Licence: Shareware
• Manufacturer: Mike Looijmas
• Home Page: http://www.cdwave.com
• Description: CDR aware visual audio editor which will split files and generate CUE sheets in terms of cd sectors instead of minutes/seconds. It can also record audio and autosplit it based on detected silense.
  

D/Noise

• Version Number: 1.01d
• Revision Date: 06 February 2002
• Licence: Shareware
• Manufacturer: Fast Mathematical Algorithms
• Home Page: http://www.fmah.com
• Description: Splits an audio file into clear signal and noise through a simple and task-specific interface.
  

Dart Pro 32

• Version Number: 1.30
• Revision Date: 16 April 2002
• Licence: Shareware
• Manufacturer: Dartech
• Home Page: http://www.dartpro.com
• Description: Restore analogue recordings using excellent and easy to use functions to equalize, declick, denoise, dehum and retouch audio files. Can also record from analogue sources, display spectral view, and includes a basic version of Dart CD Recorder. Supports DirectX filters, crossfades and a number of basic filters, and offers a custom filter builder.
  

Dart Pro 98

• Version Number: 1.1.11p
• Revision Date: 16 April 2002
• Licence: Shareware
• Manufacturer: Dartech
• Home Page: http://www.dartpro.com
• Description: Restore analogue recordings using excellent and easy to use functions to equalize, declick, denoise, dehum and retouch audio files. Can also record from analogue sources, display spectral view, and includes a basic version of Dart CD Recorder. Supports DirectX filters, crossfades and a number of basic filters.
  

Encounter 2000

• Version Number: 1.1
• Revision Date: 15 May 2001
• Licence: Freeware
• Manufacturer: Ulf M. Waschbusch
• Home Page: http://www.waschbusch.com
• Description: Very fast multithreaded audio editor, which allows you to perform several tasks at the same time. You can also process very large WAV files by loading only a part of them. Supports basic editing functions and filters.
  

GoldWave

• Version Number: 5.00
• Revision Date: 01 April 2002
• Licence: Shareware
• Manufacturer: Chris Craig
• Home Page: http://www.goldwave.com
• Description: An easy to use editor with many highly configurable effects and MP3/DAE support and plenty of visual tools.
  

LP Ripper

• Version Number: 5
• Revision Date: 12 September 2002
• Licence: Shareware
• Manufacturer: CFB Software
• Home Page: http://www.cfbsoftware.com.au
• Description: Automatically split a large WAV file (for example one coming from a vinyl LP) to separate tracks, save to WAV or MP3 files, and split/merge tracks using a simple and easy to understand user interface.
  

MP3Gain

• Version Number: 0.9.9
• Revision Date: 15 December 2002
• Licence: Freeware
• Manufacturer: Glen Sawyer
• Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/mp3gain/
• Description: Normalize and adjust volume levels of MP3 files without losing any sound quality.
  

Popfix

• Version Number: 1.08
• Revision Date: 06 February 2002
• Licence: Shareware
• Manufacturer: VKN Electronics
• Home Page: http://www.chariot.net.au/~voskulen/popfix/popfix.html
• Description: A straightforward utility to remove pops from audio files based on a few simple options. You can also preview the results.
  

ProWave

• Version Number: 1.1
• Revision Date: 24 July 2001
• Licence: Freeware
• Manufacturer: Gintaras Juskevicius
• Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/3066/
• Description: Simple and fast DirectX based audio editor which allows all basic editing operations and a lot of simple to use effects and filters.
  

Soliton

• Version Number: II
• Revision Date: 24 November 2002
• Licence: Freeware
• Manufacturer: Daniel Backstraw
• Home Page: http://www.home.bpi.net/baxtrom
• Description: Simple to use audio editor with all basic resampling and amplitude functions and also a variety of filters and effects
  

Sound Engine

• Version Number: E2.80
• Revision Date: 11 September 2001
• Licence: Freeware
• Manufacturer: KeNji
• Home Page: http://www.cycleof5th.com
• Description: Very fast and easy to use editor with a colourful pleasant interface, with basic editing functions, real time spectral representation, and a wealth of fully parametric effects and filters.
  

Sound Forge

• Version Number: 6
• Revision Date: 12 September 2002
• Licence: Commercial
• Manufacturer: Sonic Foundry
• Home Page: http://www.sonicfoundry.com
• Description: Industrial strength program with a simple interface and unparallel speed, many effects and filters (including Acoustic Mirror and Wave Hammer), support for DirectX filters. It can batch process audio files and can also accept video files. Loop creation and spectral analysis capabilities complete the picture along with capability to rip from and write tracks to a cd.
  

Wave Corrector

• Version Number: 2.3
• Revision Date: 28 December 2001
• Licence: Shareware
• Manufacturer: Ganymede Test & Measurement
• Home Page: http://www.wavecor.co.uk
• Description: Automatically remove clicks and artifacts, while being able to view corrected and uncorrected waveforms overlaid. Also includes filters for noise, hum and hiss reduction, normalization, tremble control, fade ins/outs and demands a minimal number of user settings.
  

Wave Flow

• Version Number: 4.1
• Revision Date: 02 July 2001
• Licence: Shareware
• Manufacturer: Xavier Cirac
• Home Page: http://www.waveflow.com
• Description: Simple and intuitive wave editor with many easy to use filters and effects. Includes a simple CD player and lets you print waveforms. (Note: version 1.0 is still available as freeware from author's site)
  

Wave Repair

• Version Number: 4.6.1
• Revision Date: 28 December 2001
• Licence: Shareware
• Manufacturer: Clive Backham
• Home Page: http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~abcomp/wavrep.htm
• Description: CDR aware wave editor with a real-time declicking function. Provides very fast operation and real-time volume monitoring during recording. With Wave Repair you can split large WAV files into smaller ones, manually edit clicks, read and create CUE sheets and equalize/normalize/amplify audio. A program ideal for manual editing of analogue recordings.
  

WaveLab

• Version Number: 4.0
• Revision Date: 05 March 2002
• Licence: Commercial
• Manufacturer: Steinberg
• Home Page: http://www.steinberg.net
• Description: Feature rich professional audio editor with visual tools, real time effects and plug-ins, support for batch processing, MP3 and samplers and everything you need to write your own audio cds.
  

mp3DirectCut

• Version Number: 1.28
• Revision Date: 15 December 2002
• Licence: Freeware
• Manufacturer: Martin Pesch
• Home Page: http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch
• Description: Edit ID3 Tags, non-destructively normalize and edit MP3 files without reencoding them, record from analog sources using ACM or LAME, split files and generate CUE sheets. Also provides silence detection.