Wavosaur - does some jobs better than Audacity
Notes from ClifNotes, Jan 2008, permalink Audio Editing Tools
Last week, I ran into this program and consulted a free music guru for his opinion of it. Jimi Pocius is never short on opinions and he didn't let me down this time.
Quote from Jimi:
Wavosaur is a cool cool cool little program. I have deep respect for the developers of Wavosaur and I believe it will remain free once they get out of Beta.
Wavosaur is GREAT for recording stereo Audio and tweezing it. It's better for recording stand-alone/SaviHost'ed VSTI's than Audacity, which often chokes on VSTi's, because Audacity generally uses windows sound drivers rather than the ASIO drivers VST is built on. If you need to run a VSTi (soft synth) that is very CPU intensive, Wavosaur, being a lighter app seems to record these better than Audacity. Audacity doesn't yet support ASIO (Stienberg lo-latency) drivers. If Steinberg opens that part of the VST standard to Open Source, I'm sure that will change.
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Quote from the website
Wavosaur is a free sound editor, audio editor, wav editor software for editing, processing and recording sounds, wav and mp3 files. Wavosaur has all the features to edit audio (cut, copy, paste, etc.) produce music loops, analyze, record, batch convert.
Wavosaur supports VST plugins, ASIO driver, multichannel wav files, real time effect processing.
The program has no installer and doesn't write in the registry. Use it as a free mp3 editor, for mastering, sound design. The Wavosaur freeware audio editor works on Windows 98, Windows XP and Windows Vista.
http://www.wavosaur.com/
