[LAU] audacity alternative?

[tee]

Greg wrote:
> Hi all, I was wondering if you knew of a good alternative to Audacity.
>  For whatever reason I just don't like it.  What is a fast, solid
> sample editor?  I liked mhwavedit but gave up on it because it seemed
> to unstable.
> Basically something like an Ardour jr. would be perfect.  Is anybody
> using SND for this purpose?  It's got a high learning curve and I have
> not seen much written about it online.

an uncommon recommendation would be

cinelerra (http://cinelerra.org/)

it happily loads gigabytes of pcm data and is quite fast.

hth,

tee