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Digital Sound Editing Under Unix?

Posted by Cliff on from the wav-when-you-say-hifi dept.

Jed1Mnd asks: "I have recently set out to find some decent audio manipulation software for Linux, with out that much luck. I have a friend who is currently using CoolEdit on Windows 98SE is running into issue with performance. We are looking at Linux because of the better IO, memory management and support for file systems like xfs. However like I said I am having trouble find a decent replacement for CoolEdit. I was hoping that the Slashdot crowd would know of a product (commercial or non-commercial) that would fit this situation."

5 of 19 comments (clear)

  1. Snd? by Ridge2001 · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2001/10/05/s nd_partone.html
    http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2001/10/18/s nd_parttwo.html

  2. linuxsound.at by Sam+Lowry · · Score: 3, Informative

    Try http://www.linuxsound.at/

    and... tell yoru friend that such a serious move requires not only the software to change but her habits, methods and skillset to change also...

  3. Audacity by ratatosk · · Score: 4, Informative

    As always, SourceForge is your friend ;-)

    You might want to try Audacity - it gives the win32-only packages a real run for their money:

    Audacity

    (and it's available for linux, freebsd, macos and windoze)

    /wulff

    1. Re:Audacity by ConceptJunkie · · Score: 4, Informative

      I've done quite a bit with Audacity the 0.9.6 and 0.9.7 beta versions under Windows 2000. Aside of a few interface quirks, I am extremely pleased with the results. I can slice-n-dice several hundred megabyte WAV files with impunity and then save it all to a completed file. I've been digitizing old audio tapes and Audacity has made it really easy to edit out dead spots, remove clicks and pops, adjust sound levels, etc.

      And it's GPL! Much recommended.

      --
      You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
  4. Change to the CORRECT operating system. by Xenex · · Score: 2, Informative

    I can't see the logic in a move from Windows to Linux here. The application you require only runs on a win32 platform.

    Insted of moving from Windows 98 to Linux, why don't you look into moving to Windows 2000. The issues you list (IO, memory mangement, filesystem) are all far better in Windows 2000 compared to Win9x.

    Linux is great, and the freedom attached to it is also great. But if what you need to do needs Windows, then perhaps the best solution is to move to a better version of Windows...