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- Price: Free to try (Some features limited); $40.00 to buy
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/NT
- Date added: April 29, 2002
- Total Downloads: 2,056,018
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- Average user rating: stars out of 193 votes
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Publisher's description
From GoldWave :GoldWave is a digital-audio editor for Windows. The program has real-time oscilloscopes, intelligent editing, and numerous effects (including echo, flange, distortion, mechanize, and reverse). An intuitive user interface makes GoldWave easy to learn and use. Version 4.0 adds an improved interface, time stretching, CD-audio extraction, and vertical zooming. Previous updates add automatic cue points, an improved Mark Silence feature under the Cue Points tool, and a new licensing system (for faster online licensing in the future).
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User reviews of GoldWave 5.06
- Average user rating: 4.6 stars out of 193 votes
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11 out of 11 people found this review helpful
Version: GoldWave 5.06
"I agree with Kiros review of this product - but it can save to MP3 too"
Pros: Simply download the lame.dll MP3 codec thingy and Goldwave will be able to save files to MP3. A quick search for lame.dll will reveal many sources - all free. The trial version of Goldwave allows something like 2000 uses before it runs out, so you can have it installed for ages.
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4 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: GoldWave 5.06
Pros: loads of effects to choose from, Encode to alot of multimedia files
Cons: Slighly Complicated I wanted to have one sound playing on one speaker and the track onto another recommend for intermediate music makers and advanced computer users but still I give it 5 stars
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5 out of 8 people found this review helpful
Version: GoldWave 5.06
"A Goldmine for Audio Lovers!"
Pros: > I can't recommend this product highly enough. I first worked with this product in its version 3. And I liked it a lot. Recently, I downloaded it (obvious) and am pleased to see that it has improved greatly than its past versions.
> It is the best, no doubt. You can tinker, play, edit, modify, record, add effects, trim, and tons more with audio files.
> It supports all the well and no so well known formats. Small size, but tremendous power!
> It doesn't bog down the system resources. The interface is good, and you can just do whatever your creative urges tell you to do with a click of a button. All the important tools are placed handily on the main window, so not much menu clicking.
> An extremely generous trial period of time is there. You can keep the trial version permanently on your computer, as so long you don't want to do any long recording of sounds.
> The product performs with ease on EQ adjustments and the noise reduction is fine. It is a flawless one and will really surpass a user's expectations.
> You can also change the volume of a audio file and add crossfading effects and other noise effects to this product. It is an aptly well priced product and lives up to its name.
Cons: > Only a lame_dll codec is required. It is available free, just Google it. You can however convert the file to a different format (say wma) and then convert them to the mp3 format with another product. Enjoy!
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: GoldWave 5.06
"I have used this product for years!"
Pros: I have used the various iterations of this product for years with great results. I finally got around to paying for it recently, but that was just to thank them for all I had done for free. I have captured, manipulated, and saved all sorts of audio files with this product, and never had a problem. I have used it to cut up and edit narration audio for professional CBTs, made loops of favorite audio, captured telephone calls, and many other odd uses. Go with GoldWave!
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5 out of 9 people found this review helpful
Version: GoldWave 5.06
"HUGE waste of time...please read below"
Pros: Has all the bells and whistles you could ever imagine and then some.
Cons: The bells and whistles are impossible to operate! I'm an avid PC user. Have used many, many programs of this nature. This is the biggest piece of garbage to date. I record cassettes of my local band and put the sound from analog to digital via my PC. Very common practice I suppose.=================================Now for the real cons...you will be ready to pull your hair out after a few hours of tinkering with this program. It's a huge resource hog so forget about doing anything else online with a dial-up. Also, you have 2000 commands and the program quits. I tried to split a 36 minute recording into 9 tracks using fade-in/fade-out, equalizer, auto cue (track finder), split tracks, and a few other functions. After over 1,000 commands the program was half over. This piece of crap is the hardest software to understand that I've ever seen. And I never got my recording split into anything but out-of-order out-of-sync tracks. If you have a LP or cassette and want to put it onto a CD then this program would be fine. But it does cost $40 to activate...if you have a live recording with multiple tracks then go elsewhere. GoldWave is too complicated and not worth the effort. At least I did get to hear what my Rob Zombie CD was saying in reverse using GoldWaves reverse function, which by the way is the only useful function I found.
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