Digital Sound Editing Under Unix? 19
Jed1Mnd asks: "I have recently set out to find some decent audio manipulation software for Linux, with out that much luck. I have a friend who is currently using CoolEdit on Windows 98SE is running into issue with performance. We are looking at Linux because of the better IO, memory management and support for file systems like xfs. However like I said I am having trouble find a decent replacement for CoolEdit. I was hoping that the Slashdot crowd would know of a product (commercial or non-commercial) that
would fit this situation."
Snd? (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2001/10/18/
Re:I'm in the same boat: (Score:1)
Ever hear of Emacs?
a sad sad world...
Re:I'm in the same boat: (Score:1)
Doesn't anybody do /. article searches? (Score:2, Interesting)
Cheers,
jw
Re:Doesn't anybody do /. article searches? (Score:1)
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/15/165
Cheers,
jw
linuxsound.at (Score:3, Informative)
and... tell yoru friend that such a serious move requires not only the software to change but her habits, methods and skillset to change also...
Audacity (Score:4, Informative)
You might want to try Audacity - it gives the win32-only packages a real run for their money:
Audacity [sourceforge.net]
(and it's available for linux, freebsd, macos and windoze)
/wulff
Re:Audacity (Score:4, Informative)
And it's GPL! Much recommended.
Well... (Score:1)
Sound Forge (Score:1)
Broadcast 2000 (Score:1)
The only thing keeping Win2k on my machine... (Score:2, Insightful)
Wavelab is the best program! (Score:2)
The real killer is the audio montage section where you can arrange clips(non destructively) in unlimited tracks and adjust things like volume and effects on track or clip basis. Crossfading, etc. is a snap. Ton of effects that can be run real-time or not.. the montage section is a lot like broadcast2000..
Can do speed changes with constant pitch and vice versa, connects to your favourite sampler and does mp3 decoding/encoding too..
Also an added plus is an integrated cd burning software. Which means that you can do a montage of clips, set cd-markers(track changes) and burn a cd without gaps between tracks..
Check it out at steinberg.net [steinberg.net]
Change to the CORRECT operating system. (Score:2, Informative)
Insted of moving from Windows 98 to Linux, why don't you look into moving to Windows 2000. The issues you list (IO, memory mangement, filesystem) are all far better in Windows 2000 compared to Win9x.
Linux is great, and the freedom attached to it is also great. But if what you need to do needs Windows, then perhaps the best solution is to move to a better version of Windows...
Re:UNIX is a broad scope. (Score:2)
You get the best of both worlds --- all the graphics & sound tools that the Macs are famous for, and a real, live, true-blue Unix!
Whoa. Brain overload.
--NBVB