GoldWave is is a top rated, a comprehensive, affordable, professional quality, digital audio editing software and multitrack audio/video mixing software. It includes all of the common audio editing commands and effects, plus powerful built-in tools such as a batch processor/converter, a file merger, a CD reader, and audio restoration filters that are expensive add-ons in other programs. Comprehensive, well designed, and easy & fun to use, GoldWave offers the best value in audio editing software. GoldWave is ideal for people who work with audio for CD editing, archive restoration, speech analysis, radio and TV, Java and Web pages, games, or just for fun. You can use it to make everything from elaborate answering machine messages to professional, high quality CD audio content. GoldWave allows to sssign your own keystrokes for almost any function in the program. Arrange the windows, tool bars, effect bars, and controls the way you want. Create your own presets for effects. Add plug-ins for more functionality.
GoldWave can do:
• Play, edit, mix, and analyze audio
• Record audio from cassettes, vinyl records, radio, etc. through your computer’s line-in
• Record dictation through a microphone or play dictation back at a slower speed for transcription (with foot pedal control)
• Record and edit audio for podcasting or telephone systems
• Apply special effects, such as fade, equalizer, doppler, mechanize, echo, reverse, flanger, and more
• Digitally remaster and restore old recordings with noise reduction and pop/click filters
• Convert files to/from different formats, such as iTunes, wav, wma, mp3, ogg, aiff, au, vox and even raw binary data
• Make perfect digital copies of audio CD tracks using the CD Reader tool and save them in wav, wma, mp3, or ogg files
• Edit music for dance programs, figure skating, gymnastics
• Analyze human speech, bird song, whale song
• Demonstrate digital signal processing with filter effects and the Expression Evaluator tool
• View a variety of useful real-time visuals and level meters
• Expand functionality with plug-ins
• Command line processing
General Features:
• Multiple Document Interface for working with many files in one session
• Huge file editing: 4GB and beyond (NTFS only)
• Configurable RAM or hard drive editing
• High quality: 24 bit, 192kHz
• Real-time visuals: bar, waveform, spectrogram, spectrum, level meter, …
• Fast non-destructive editing. Cut, copy, delete, and undo take only a fraction of a second, regardless of the file size
• Multiple undo levels
• Many effects: distortion, doppler, echo, filter, mechanize, offset, pan, volume shaping, invert, resample, equalizer, time warp, pitch, reverb, volume matcher, channel mixer, …
• Effect previewing and presets
• Audio restoration filters: noise reduction, pop/click, smoother
• Supported file formats: wav, mp3, ogg, aiff, au, vox, mat, snd, voc, FLAC, raw binary data, text data, and more
• File format plug-ins for the next generation of audio compression, such as WMA and MP4/M4A
• DirectX Audio Plug-in hosting
• Effect chain editor
• Audio CD Reader
• Batch processing and conversion
• Drag-and-drop cue points, with auto-cue and file splitting features.
• Direct waveform editing with the mouse
• Customizable tool bars
• Customizable waveform colours
• Customizable keyboard shortcuts
• Automatic timer (day/time) recording or level activated recording
• Clean, friendly, easy-to-use interface
• Several built-in accessibility features and many keyboard shortcuts
OS Compatibility: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista (64 & 32 bit), Windows 7 (64 & 32 bit).
New Features:
• Playback/Recording. This version of GoldWave contains significant changes to the playback and recording code. By default, the new Windows Vista/7 Core Audio/WASAPI is used. Previous versions of GoldWave used DirectX (DirectSound) for all audio input and output. However DirectX has been the source of many problems and has been deprecated on Windows Vista/7 where it no longer provides direct access to the audio hardware. DirectSound support is still included as an option in GoldWave and is used by default for Windows 2000/XP.
• Media Foundation. This version of GoldWave uses the new Media Foundation in Windows 7 to access system decoders to handle a wider range of audio and video files. Previous versions of GoldWave used DirectShow to access system decoders. That functionality has not been removed but it is used only if Media Foundation is unable to open a file or on older versions of Windows that do no have Media Foundation.
• iTunes M4A. GoldWave can now open and save iTunes M4A files through Media Foundation on Windows 7. Currently there appears to be a flaw in the way Media Foundation handles cover art and copyright metadata. Although cover art can be read from a file, any attempt to write cover art results in all metadata being wiped from the file. To avoid this problem, the only metadata GoldWave writes is text. Cover art cannot be saved in an M4A file for now.
• Covert Art. Cover art is shown under File | Information. Click on the image to replace the artwork with another image.
• Open URL. A new File | Open URL command has been added to open a file directly from a website using Media Foundation on Window 7.
• Window Layering. In previous versions of GoldWave, windows and dialogs could appear on top of other applications. Changes have been made to avoid that. However further testing is needed to ensure that windows and dialogs appear correctly on top of GoldWave’s Main window and not behind it, which would make the program appear frozen.
• VST. The first beta version of the VST plug-in is included. However, there appear to be numerous stability issues with VST plug-ins. Many plug-ins violate the VST specification in a variety of ways and the specification itself has issues
Changes in v5.65:
Changes include:
• New audio I/O for Windows Vista/7
• Improved support for M4A files (Windows 7 only)
• New Open URL command (Windows 7 only)
• Support for VST plug-ins (still in beta testing)
• New Stereo Center effect
• Artwork in File Information
• Redesigned Batch Processing window
• USB HID foot pedal support
• New Tone Meter visual (audible volume level meter)
• New Copy From File edit command option in Batch Processing
• New recording button for one click recording
• Many, many other minor improvements, features, and fixes (see WhatsNew.txt for detailed list)
Important notes:
• VST support is still in beta testing. More feedback is required.
• With the exception of a minor update or two, this will be the last version of GoldWave for older versions of Windows (XP and below). Version 5.70 and later will require at least Windows Vista.
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