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

lala lala.land at freenet.de
Fri Nov 3 17:51:22 EST 2006


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Leonard "paniq" Ritter schrieb:
> 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
audacity has some issues here too... i read a lot of some 'null'
errors, different errors on different languages (same package) and so
on... dont know if this is a packagers fault (packman.links2linux.de)
or the software itself...
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