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