Cool Edit 96 - the sound editor

~terry Sun, Nov 10, 1996 (14:05) seed

I'm hot for Cooledit. I needed an app that would let me create apps for my new RealAudio Server at http://barton.spring.com and Cool Edit just released an add on that lets you create Realaudio files directly, without having to use the Realaudio encoder. I gathered some of the following from the website: http://www.syntrillium.com/cebeta.htm Cool Edit is a digital sound editor for Windows. You might think of it as a paint program for audio- just as a paint program enables you to create images with colors, brush strokes, and a variety of special effects, Cool Edit enabl es you to "paint" with sound: tones, pieces of songs and voices and miscellaneous noises, sine waves and sawtooth waves, noise, or just pure silence. Cool Edit also gives you a wide variety of special effects to "touch up" your sounds: reverbera tion, noise reduction, echo and elay, flanging, filtering, and others. Cool Features: - Edit mono or stereo files up to 1 gigabyte in size - Touch up files with functions like Filter, Amplify, Compress, Stretch, and Noise Reduction - Record files from a CD, keyboard, or any signal played through your sound card - Add fantastic effects with Reverb, Delay, Echo, Flanger, Distortion, and Envelope functions - Generate Silence, Noise (White, Pink, or Brown), DTMF Signals, and Tones - Edit multiple files simultaneously - Merge files together with Paste Overlap and Paste Modulate functions - Perform Frequency Analyses on your signals - Convert file and sample types - Use the Cue List and Play List to cue up and play the segments you specify - Create named Presets to store your favorite processing function settings - Create Scripts for automated processing and batch operations Rating: Four and half walruses out of a possible five. Pros: May be the only game in town for sound editing. It's pretty easy to use. It supports a *wide* variety of file formats including Realaudio. Cons: Tough to get to the download site (as of this writing). Some features are disabled in the shareware version, sending them $50 cures this.

~terry Sun, Nov 10, 1996 (14:49) #1

To elaborate on a minor inaccuracy in one of the "cons" above. When you start up the program, you select three features that you want to enable. All the other features are disabled. This is "semi-crippleware" but not onerous enough to prevent you from getting basic sound files edited. It may cause you to shut down and re-open the program frequently to acheive multiple effects. I'm gonna offer these folks a distribution point on the Spring, the main limitation now is that their software is just plain hard to get. Quit playing hard to get, Cool Edit folks!

~terry Tue, Nov 12, 1996 (00:04) #2

Here's where to download it: ftp://ftp.syntrillium.com/pub/cool_edit/filters/prognet.exe They just got their ftp site back up and running. I got an email today apologizing for yesterday's downed ftp site. So that may not be normal for their ftp site to be down. I'm real happy to have this app. The Realaudio add on worked like a champ. Now I can save sound bytes directly as Realaudio files. You just ftp these files into your c:\cool directory where the cool edit files reside and they work!