Re: [ARSCLIST] Audio Editing Software Options

[Brandon Burke <bburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The advantage to Pro Tools Free, of course, is that you can go out to your local
bookstore and buy a book to accompany it--like the Visual Quickstart Guide, for
example. They're pretty helpful if you're new to the game. Just a thought....


Brandon Burke
Graduate Research Assistant
Digital Library Services
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
phone: (512) 495-4566
email: bburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Quoting andy kolovos <akolovos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Folks,
>
> Anyone have suggestions for free/open source and low cost audio editing
> programs usable in Windows?  To give you some idea, I'm referring to
> options in the range of ProTools Free, Goldwave ($40), and Sound Forge
> Studio ($70)on the high end.  If anyone can suggest anything else, in
> particular free, open source options for Windows, it would be terrific.
> The suggestions will be directed to people conducting oral
> history/ethnographic interviews who are interested in doing basic editing
> of digital audio files, have no need of multi-tracking, probably no
> interest in creating 24/96 files, and don't have a lot of money to spend.
>
> Thanks,
>
> andy
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