Here's a cool programme for editing and applying FX etc to your audio files....Cool edit, comes as a sort of shareware....basically, the programme will run load & save , but unless you register, each time the programme is opened you must select 2 choices from an available list of permissable uses.....So in effect, you can select one function you wish to perform, as well as the save function, and it is possible to use the demo to apply FX or edit your audio and then save it.....Obviously for each process you want to apply, you will have to close & re-open the programme to select the next function you want to use.....
I think this is a real good idea, cos you can really try the programme and use it after which registration is very cheap......
There are 2 different registration prices.......
- FULL..... Which allows all functions
- LITE...... Which allows basic features but disables some of the FX stuff like timestretch etc
When opening the demo, these are the choices from which you can select 2 to be functional:
- Save, External Clipboard Functionality, & DTMF (telephone) Tones
- CD player controls
- Stretch, PCM Music Generator & DTFM
- Filter & Noise Reduction
- Amplify, Envelope, Channel mixer, & Normalise
- Flanger, Delay & Compressor
- Echo, Echo Chamber & Reverb
- Distortion, Quick Filter & Reverse
The programme seems pretty good...and when you consider the prices ($50 & $25)....Then for functions like timestretch, Reverb and all the other editing facilities well it's pretty amazing really.....Cool Edit has some very interesting features....
Apart from the basic editing commands there are FX and Processing commands listed in the functions above....So you've got all your time & pitch stuff, reverb, delay fx, compression etc etc etc......But Cool Edit also does batch processing, where it will apply a given Effect or Process to a selected bunch of audio files.......But Cool Edit has a very interesting feature attatched to this called SCRIPTS....
From what I can make out, you can create a script file which lists a whole bunch of specific processing settings....these can be saved and opened for use without having to actually save the audio wav file....So...taking one of the example scripts, a Space film type Laser gun sound.......all the settings for the Wave generation, Filters, delay, envelope etc are all stored as a tiny script file.....when you run a script, it opens all the necessary dialog boxes, and sets the levels & parameters to run all the stages of the wave generation........
So....You can create a wicked FX, or favourite sound generating setting and save it as a script...at any time you need that sound, just Run the script file, and .....Hey Presto...The sound is created......These scripts can also be exported to other users who can apply them to audio in their own machine....Good idea huh?!
Cool edit also makes wicked Telephone dial sounds, where you can select the dial sequence etc....as well as a variety of other tones & noises....All in all a VERY versatile programme for a piddling amount of money !!!
Cool edit also has a nice CD controller that will open if you want it along the bottom of the window with a special toolbar....Nice touch if you're doing stuff from CD.....
Tell you what....Either download the older smaller Version 1.50 from here, or go to the Syntrillion website to download the newer versions.....The new Cool Edit 6 apparently works with Cakewalk to become a dedicated wave editor & Effector without having to exit Cakewalk...Sounds excellent if you have the older pre-version 6 Cakewalk Pro Audio, which has Eq & a few other functions, but no FX etc........
Since I wrote this, Cool-Edit now comes with a 24 track multitrack section I do believe kiddies !!.... so check it out !!...
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