Music Editing Program?

MechaTheGreat · Post by **MechaTheGreat** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 10:07 pm

My friend's been asking me if I know of a program that allows you to edit music. Like screw and chop it, cut parts out and stuff.

I think Sound Forge allows you to do this but I'm not sure. This probably sounds like a stupid question to, but whatever, I would like to know to inform my friend.

So, any programs y'all know of?

Orwell · Post by **Orwell** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 10:14 pm

Adobe Audition and Soudbooth.

Free: Goldwave (3000 use trial)
Completely free: Audacity

The only one I ever use for anything besides conversion? Premiere.

MechaTheGreat · Post by **MechaTheGreat** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 10:18 pm

kthnx. So I was wrong about Sound Forge or what?

Orwell · Post by **Orwell** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 10:23 pm

MechaTheGreat wrote:kthnx. So I was wrong about Sound Forge or what?

Never used it, and I've only heard of it a couple times. I generally don't need to mix audio, the most I do is cut it out, put a power gain on it so that it flows together, and call it good. I've tried Audition before, seems like if your friend knows about audio mixing, then it'd be a good program.

MechaTheGreat · Post by **MechaTheGreat** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 10:30 pm

kthnx. I'll let him know about these programs.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 4:57 pm

Last I checked, SoundForge XP was considered an excellent audio editor. However, I don't know if it ever had a multitrack mode (Adobe Audition, formerly Syntrillium Cool Edit Pro, certainly does).

Audacity seems to be the most recommended free one around here.

Farlo · Post by **Farlo** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 12:36 am

soundforge was great, until sony bought their company and now its not as good.

pixiepixiegirl · Post by **pixiepixiegirl** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 3:38 pm

I use the aforementioned Audacity myself. I'm very much in love with the program.

Neo_Kuleshov · Post by **Neo_Kuleshov** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 8:15 pm

i use both audacity and adobe audition. both are great. i prefer audition, but audacity has to be one of the best sound editing free ware out there.

TheShaggyFreak · Post by **TheShaggyFreak** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 7:01 pm

It depends on how much you want to spend and how much 'screwing' you're looking to do. I personally use Pro Tools and Ableton Live but I'm also writing a lot of original music. Audacity is actually a fairly useful program, though, and I still use it when I want to perform some basic edits.