Re: [linux-audio-user] Looking for a Simple(ish) WAV editor

have a look at rezound first. newest version at least properly supports
alsa. it doesn't use my favorite gui toolkit, but it's really pop.

On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 12:52 -0500, Rick Wright wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I am looking for a WAV file editor that will do just a few basic
> things. Ideally, the editor would allow precise cutting/pasting without
> introducing gaps/silence, selection reversal, high/low pass filtering,
> and (hopefully) cross-fading between segment interfaces at the cut/paste
> points. I'd like to be able to export these as 32bit float WAV's.
>
> For the interested, all I'm trying to do is to cut out sections of
> various noise recordings (that don't have voices or other undesirables)
> and create clips/samples that I can filter the very lowest <15Hz
> frequencies from, so the result can be looped by a player without
> getting "clicks/pops" at the loop wraparound. Ultimately creating a
> library of "continuous" souces of various noise sources.
>
>
> So far I've tried:
> 1) Audacity, which seems to meet my needs, but I can't figure out how to
> tell it *not* to add ~3 secs of silence at the end when I export the
> finished product.
> 2) Ardour2 (latest beta), but here we have a situation with a far more
> capable application than user. I believe this app would be overkill for
> my needs and the learning curve looks steep.
> 3) a few Win32 shareware (cr)apps.
>
>
> Before I wade into the many GNU/Linux options in the GNU/Linux community
> (I'll probably start in the list found here:
> http://sound.condorow.net/snded.html), I had hoped some of the more
> experienced members of this list might point me in promising directions.
>
>
> Another avenue to possibly meet my goal could be to use a player (must
> be JACK compatible) that can play continuously and cross-fade between
> tracks, but have only the single WAV file in the playlist, thus
> effectively looping w/cross-fading. I would appreciate any guidance
> here as well. (In this case, I would still need to filter the low
> frequencies from the WAV file, so I'd still need some sort of editor.)
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any help,
> Rick

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