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- Price: Free to try (Some features disabled after 14 days); $76.00 to buy
- Operating system: Mac OS X 10.2, Mac OS X 10.5 Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 PPC, Mac OS X 10.6, Mac OS X 10.3, Mac OS X 10.4 PPC, Mac OS X 10.3.9
- Date added: August 17, 2009
- Total Downloads: 45,612
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 9 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
In spite of its tiny size, WavePad packs a big audio punch.
The app furnishes plenty of tools for recording and editing sound. WavePad's interface is fairly well-organized, and the Command Bar feature provides quick access to the most frequently used functions. WavePad supports a variety of popular audio formats, including MP3, OGG, WAV, and WMA, and it includes a ripping function.
Once you open a file or begin recording via your sound card, you'll see a large rendering of the waveform, and you can choose to apply edits to the entire track or only certain parts. The application lets you open several files at once and move sound fragments among them, and the inclusion of a batch-conversion utility is a nice touch. WavePad offers a decent number of basic effects, such as noise reduction, normalizing, fading, amplification, echo, changing speed and pitch, and reverb, and you can preview any edits before saving. There are also text-to-speech and speech recognition functions, impressive for a free app.
All told, this utility's many capabilities and lack of restrictions make it a fine pick for all but the most advanced, hard-core audio junkies.
Publisher's description
From NCH Software :WavePad is a sound editor program for Mac OS X. This software lets you make and edit voice and other audio recordings. You can cut, copy and paste parts of recording and, if required, add effects like echo, amplification and noise reduction. Features: Sound editing functions include cut, copy, paste, delete, insert, silence, autotrim and more. Audio effects include, amplify, normalize, equaliser, envelope, reverb, echo, reverse, sample rate conversion. Special effects include reduce vocals, distortion, chorus and more. Batch processing allows you to apply effects and/or convert your files as a single function. Version 3.14 allows users to drag audio file to Wavepad icon in the dock and wavepad opens the file.
What's new in this version:
Bug fix.
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Version: WavePad 4.25
Pros: Easy to use
Straight forward interface
Intuitive
Supports lots of formats
Free!Cons: None for me
Summary: I was looking for something that would edit my sound files. Did not want anything to fancy and WavePad seemed to fit the bill. I have been using it now for some time and have not found anything that I could not do. Love the fact that it is easy to u... read more >>
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