Hello Bruce, On Thursday, January 5, 2006, 10:39:29 PM, you bellowed the following: > I believe in Gold Wave. It's gotten a lot of knocking over the years from > people who sincerely believe that anything other than Sound Forge is a > hopeless program to use.
Well, I bought goldwave in 1998 after using it for a year as a demo, then two more years before switching to sound forge, and sure, it's accessible and easy to use for what it is, but the interface is a might too non-standard/clunky for me. The whole start/end marker thing is a bit of a pain to deal with if you don't know ahead of time where you're going to be if you're zipping arounmd in huge increments of a multi-hour long file as I do often in sound forge. I like the one cursor approach myself -- very easy to deal with, and it's a lot easier to quickly jump outside of a selection you've made without selecting the entire file, or going into an edit box and typing in numbers, or jumpng to a queue point that you may have had to set up before starting, which then may have changed as certain parts of the file get editted out. Also, the DirectX manager isn't very accessible yet, and Goldwave just doesn't have the mastering capability I need. It's compressor is, well, a bit plastic, and the noise reduction algorithm is based from FFT, which does the whole under-water thing. It's saving crase is that the pop/crackle removal thing works pretty well on digital cracks such as continuous DC offset issues, but not very well on things like restoring vinyl. The biggest advantage of keeping goldwave for me though is the format support it has. Coming from a non-corperate environment, it does support more formats than sound forge probably ever will, which I do like still. It's kind of interesting to note that goldwave seems to have a bigger learning curve than sound forge does, at least for basic editting, even for sighted folks from what I've read. I started my audio editting existence on goldwave, and didn't like sound forge at all at first, because.. well, it was too standard and a shock to get used to word processing editting concepts applied to audio in such a fassion, which I know sounds a bit strange, but there you are. -- Good Friday, -- Patrick Perdue (MCP, CNA) KE4DYI Greensboro, NC website: http://www.pdaudio.net home: +1(828)221-2971 Mobile hone and SMS: +1(336)509-5583 e-mail and .net messenger: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skype: Borris -------------------- For anything related to the yamaha motif line of keyboards and modules, subscribe to the motif-help mailing list by sending a blank message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com
