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

[Leonard "paniq" Ritter]

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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