I use Cool Edit Pro 2.0 over the time. I like it's friendly interface and 128 tracks recording.

Cool Edit Pro 2 for hasty jobs

Magix Samplitude 2496 6.0 for detailed and advanced jobs

Magix Audio Cleaning Lab for restoration

Mayah EditPro for MP3 direct edition

Waves Native Gold Bundle 3.5 for effects (sometimes BBE Sonic Maximizer for maximization)

Prosoniq Orange Vocoder just for fun

Old SoundForge 4.5 to quickly view waveforms, generate sines, record vinyls and tapes, perform clic removal...

Magix Samplitude Producer pro 6 for mastering, mixing, burning. I should use it to record too, but I didn't take the time to test its recording function.

With Samplitude, in addition to instant equalization, dynamics, volume, balance, enveloppe etc settings, it is possible to mix tracks together adjusting the tempo, it is even possible to get the scales matching performing a time stretching on individual tracks, so that it's impossible, save for the time stretching artifacts, to tell which part is from one track and which part is from the other when they are mixed, because they really play together.

Audacity 1.1 for everything...

IT's maybe not as good as its commercial counterparts, but it does all I want for free...

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Mainly Cool Edit Pro 2.0 for editing/effects/generating sounds.

Sound Forge 6 with NR 2
an old version of Cool Edit Pro
Acoustic

Sound Forge 6 with NR 2
an old version of Cool Edit Pro
Acoustica

Sound forge 6
Cool edit 2000

I'd like to know how SoundForge 6 compares to Samplitude.
I read that it could master CDs and perform non destructive editing.

What are the non destructive processes offered ? Is there a multitrack workspace in which you can move your waveforms in order to built an audio CD layout ? Can you apply non destructive processes in this layout ?

Don't know about SoundForge 6, but at least in 5 you couldn't have a multitrack layout. You had to burn each track TAO

I work as a part time mastering engineer. Wavelab 4 is my choice.

CoolEdit Pro 1.2a, for audio editing, DSP'ing and signal generation.

Steinberg Wavelab,
Steinberg Natural Verb Vst,
Magix Samplitude Studio,
Waves Masters Bundle,
Waves Restoration Bundle,
Waves Native Gold Bundle,
Tc Sparkfx Machine.

can anyone here recommend some good high-frequency restoration tool? i know that it won't sound the same, but i can't stand that 4.5khz lowpass. i know that the Magix audio cleaning lab does it very well, but it hangs all Microsoft OS on my pc. does any other tool with magix's sound quality exist?

Soundforge 6 and Samplitude 2496

Cool Edit 2000.

Cool Edit 1.2a and Audacity.

>>>'I'd like to know how SoundForge 6 compares to Samplitude.
I read that it could master CDs and perform non destructive editing.'<<<

yes, it can. the non-destructive editing part is literally identical to samplitude and wavelab. as for mastering CDs, it has a basic digital mastering package like wavehammer (compressor + loudness maximizer) and a dynamics processor, but i would certainly recommend using more high-end plugins from waves or TC works if quality is important to you

>>>'What are the non destructive processes offered ? Is there a multitrack workspace in which you can move your waveforms in order to built an audio CD layout ? Can you apply non destructive processes in this layout ?'<<<

unfortunately, it is not possible with sound forge 6 (unlike wavelab 4 and samplitude producer 6). if you buy SF6 and you register it, i believe they give you vegas video LE, which allows basic audio multi-tracking functions like mix, fade, cut and paste, etc. sound forge 6 is also very basic when it comes to CD burning -- only track-at-once audio CD burning, unlike wavelab 4 which has a much more advanced CD burning program and burns both audio and data CDs

i'd like to mention SoundProbe, 'cause I think it's really cool !

yup...


as of restoration (vinyl, tape ).. i prefer diamond cut live 4.74

then i use wavelab 4.0 for all files..

it looks exactly like cooledit pro... literally

LOL. Indeed!

http://www.soundprobe.com/im/sp2shotb.gif

EAC!

Does quite a bit really.

heh I use GoldWave ... anybody heard of it?

i really only use it for trimming or cutting... ie, some tracks on cds that i rip have 15 minutes of silence after the song, then another bonus song at the end... i split them up and remove the silence.

i would be interested in remastering some of my albums, if that is possible... some independent releases i own sound like garbage and make my ears really tired after listening.

Yeah, I have it.

It's small and fast - Bravo! - but lacks too many features IMO.

http://www.goldwave.com/

The best I've found is Diamond Cut. Noise reduction, enhancements, it does it all and does it all with precision. Once you learn to use it, it can really blow you away. Even now, it occasionally surprises me. This stuff is all math, and their algorhythymns are the most accurate I've found, producing the best results.

that'll be Audacity 1.1

however although now you can record in 32-bit float, you can't choose the dither method, exporting to 16-bit might try out goldwave.