cool edit or soundforge

[Guest Rohan]

which wave editor is better cool edit or soundforge

[Guest etherdesign]

wavelab

[Guest reece]

wavelab

 

only editor that runs vst fx

:-)

[Guest Bodhisattva]

idd

Wavelab rools

 

 

Greetz

[Guest Mike Indidginus]

They've all got unique things about them that iz good eg Cool Edit has a groovy gliding timestretch & Wavelab is particularly good at sorting out track regions (as I discovered when trying to separate a sample CD into it's component sections). I use Soundforge for the most part though & have no complaints

[Guest Faction]

Yeah, Soundforge I reckon. And you can get VST plugins working in it using a VST wrapper (FXpansion do a good one).

 

Why Soundforge? Well, as has already been said, all the editors do things that the others don't (this is why I have all three installed) but for speed and ease of use, SF just beats WL in my book - compare the waveform overviews in both programs and you'll see another big reason why I prefer SF; it gives you a better picture of the wave (trivial yet somehow important). You can get Cubase to pass segment information to SF too, using CUB2FOR2.EXE, just like Wavelab. Cool Edit has a wicked zoom, but just feels tacky to me. I don't know, maybe I'm just a snob.

 

What the hell, use whatever works for you; that's what I do.

 

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