What's a good bit of audio software?

[nekokate]

Hope this is an ok question to ask here...

I'm getting more and more into mixing/looping music, and I was wondering if anyone can point me in the direction of some decent software that would make it easier for me. So far I've been using pretty lame techniques with Roxio AudioCentral (which I think is only really designed for chopping the beginning or end off tracks).

Any advice, couchers?

[faceless]

moved this in here as it's media tips...



I recommend Goldwave for editing samples - www.goldwave.com it's what I use for pretty much everything.

[nekokate]

Thanks, Faceless. I'll check that out!

[Griffo]

Couple of good peices of software used by music makers is Fruity Loops and Ableton. Both awesome programs.

[nekokate]

Cool. Thanks, Griffo

[luke]

what do you actually wanna do kate? for editing files, changing the volume, fading in, out, converting formats, certain effects etc, soundforge is the don, if you wanna mix say mp3's together - mixmeister is really good, or you want to make your own music with a mixture of samples and plug in instruments, like griffo recommends, fruityloops is wicked

[Brown Sauce]

i like mixmeister very much, great for setting up party music, I've done 10 hrs with it, no repeats, ain't limewire great but anything after V5 is overblown in my opinion.

for editing and adding effects, I tried loads, bought gold wave , then found "cool edit pro", that was bought by adobe and is now called audition. It's up to v2, but that too is overblown, and I've settled on v 1.5.

need any of it, with an extended indefinite trial period let me know ..

[Sheffman]

[Brown Sauce]

24 mb ?? I might get rid of adobes overblown effort and get back to the roots

[Sheffman]

[luke]

nice one sheffman, i had to reinstall my computer the last few days and can't find my soundforge cd, so i'm going to try your cool edit pro