I like gold wave and I don't exactly have $500 to spend on it, let alone $40, although I'd prefer $40 to $400 any day. I'm just curious, is gold wave so cheap because sound forge is manufactured and made by sony? I actually recently bought a sony stario, and it was...expensive. Just curious.
Tyler ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Perdue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <Pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 4:51 AM Subject: Re[2]: Sound Forge 8 and Noise Reduction Questions > 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 > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.13/221 - Release Date: > 04/01/2006 > > _______________________________________________ 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
