Okay, first a little back story. I really dig Sound Guy's SFX Pro (especially the filter that makes all human speech sound like a probot from The Empire Strikes Back). However to my absolute horror I discovered that the current version does not show up in Apple's Soundtrack Pro FCS3 version. How was I going to do probots now? I needed a wave editor, and I needed one now. The choices seemed to be:
1. Garage Band - it ships with every new Mac. But it's kind of kludgey has a silly faux wooden interface and is really geared to, well, garage bands (and podcasting).
2. Freeverse Sound Studio - this one almost had me with its slick interface and quick loadingness. Definitely a contender.
3. Amadeus Pro - didn't do it for me, although I know it's very popular. I don't go with the flow, I go with what I know, and what I know is that this one wasn't for me - it's not expensive though.
4. Audacity - for free, how could it be beat? Well, I've been burned by Audacity quite a few times, it's great in a pinch but not stable enough for me.
5. ProTools - any version, overkill with its dongle. I just want to edit the odd wave file and apply probot fx. Pricey.
6. Bias Peak - too much laurel sitting and not within my price range either.
7. Wave Editor - back in an earlier incarnation I criticised it for being too complex, but a promising equivilent to Sound Forge on OS X. Well I checked it out in demo mode. Liked it this time around. Then found it's available for the ridiculous price of $80 - with the current exchange rate being something like $1.50 to £1.00 I snapped it up for the equivalent price of a tank of diesel (less, actually). Impulse buy! Perfect!
And make no mistake, Wave Editor is a powerful tool. It may just end up replacing Soundtrack Pro as my choice of wave editor and processor because frankly, Soundtrack Pro is still a pain in the ass and now I can't even do probots with it.
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Oh man, it even has a M-S decoder and encoder built in! Awesome.
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