Digital Audio Editing Software. GoldWave is is a top rated, a comprehensive digital audio editor. GoldWave is ideal for people who work with audio for CD editing, archive restoration, speech analysis, radio and TV, Java and Web pages, games, or just for fun. You can use it to make everything from elaborate answering machine messages to professional, high quality CD audio content .

GoldWave can do:

Play, edit, mix, and analyze audio

Record audio from cassettes, vinyl records, radio, etc. through your computer's line-in

Record dictation through a microphone or play dictation back at a slower speed for transcription

Record and edit audio for podcasting

Apply special effects, such as fade, equalizer, doppler, mechanize, echo, reverse, flanger, and more

Digitally remaster and restore old recordings with noise reduction and pop/click filters

Make perfect digital copies of audio CD tracks using the CD Reader tool and save them in wma, mp3, ogg files

Edit music for dance programs, figure skating, gymnastics

Analyze human speech, bird song, whale song

Demonstrate digital signal processing with filter effects and the expression evaluator tool

View a variety of real-time visuals and VU meters

Convert files to/from different formats, such as wav, wma, mp3, ogg, aiff, au, vox and even raw binary data

General Features:

Multiple Document Interface for working with many files in one session

Huge file editing: 4GB and beyond (NTFS only)

Configurable RAM or hard drive editing

High quality: 24 bit, 192kHz

Real-time visuals: bar, waveform, spectrogram, spectrum, VU meter, ...

Fast non-destructive editing. Cut, copy, delete, and undo take only a fraction of a second, regardless of the file size

Multiple undo levels

Many effects: distortion, doppler, echo, filter, mechanize, offset, pan, volume shaping, invert, resample, equalizer, time warp, pitch, reverb, volume matcher, channel mixer, ...

Effect previewing and presets

Audio restoration filters: noise reduction, pop/plick, smoother

Supported file formats (wav, mp3, ogg, aiff, au, vox, mat, snd, voc, raw binary data, text data, and more)

File format plug-ins for the next generation of audio compression, such as WMA, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC.

DirectX Audio Plug-in hosting

Effect chain editor

Audio CD Reader

Batch processing and conversion

Drag-and-drop cue points, with auto-cue and file splitting features.

Direct waveform editing with the mouse

Customizable tool bars

Customizable waveform colours

Several built-in accessibility features and keyboard shortcuts

GoldWave v6.68 Released

Updated translations

Several important fixes

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