Wave Display Right-Click Menu
The Edit View’s Wave Display now has a right-click menu. However, if you prefer Cool Edit Pro 1.x’s way of using the right mouse button to extend the edges of selections, you can turn the menu off in Options > Settings by checking the “Right-click extend selection” box. Or, you can keep the right-click menu on and use the new shortcut of Shift+Left-click to extend selection edges.
Wave Properties
We’ve beefed up our View > Wave Properties dialog (formerly called “Wave Information”) to include room for much more data including a waveform’s looping info and support for EBU (European Broadcasting Union) extensions.
Phase Analysis
Joining the improved Frequency Analysis tool on Cool Edit Pro’s Analyze menu is the new Phase Analysis window. Now you can check those stereo waveforms to make sure they’re “in phase”.
Easier Batch Conversion
Cool Edit Pro’s new Batch File Convert dialog (you get to it from the Edit View’s File menu) makes it a cinch to convert multiple sound files from one format and/or sample type to another. (If you’d rather continue to use the Scripts & Batch Processing window for this, don’t worry – it’s still there on the Options menu.)
Multitrack View
More Tracks
We’ve doubled the number of tracks in Cool Edit Pro’s Multitrack View. Now you have access to up to 128 stereo tracks to master your next production or musical masterpiece.
More Envelopes
Along with the Pan and Volume Envelopes from Cool Edit Pro 1.x, we now have three more types of envelopes. Wet/Dry Envelopes give you total control over the amount of effects applied to a track, while FX Parameter Envelopes are used to govern the amount of dynamic effects (for example, Dynamic EQ and Dynamic Delay) used on a track. Also, MIDI blocks can have non-editable Tempo Envelopes displayed on them that matches their tempo map.
Block Edge Dragging
You can now drag the edges of waveform, MIDI, and video blocks to non-destructively trim the part of a block that gets played. This feature is especially handy when looping.
Multitrack Session Information
We’ve expanded the Multitrack Session Information window to include tempo and key information for looping.
Frequency Band Splitter
There’s a new “Multitrack only” effect in Cool Edit Pro 2. You can use the Frequency Band Splitter to take a selected waveform block (or a highlighted portion thereof) and make up to 8 copies of it, with each copy assuming a different frequency range of the original.
Built-in Metronome
Keeping time in Cool Edit Pro is a breeze with the new Metronome function, which, of course, is fully customizable. We’ve even included several sets of metronome sounds.
Vertical Portion Bar
The Vertical Portion Bar (which by default appears to the left of the Track Controls) not only lets you scroll through the number of tracks visible in the Session Window, but allows you to zoom in and out on those tracks with ease. This lets you display just one track, a few tracks, or as many tracks as your screen resolution supports.
US-428 Support
Cool Edit Pro now supports the US-428, a hardware control unit from Tascam that’s also a USB sound card.
Changes
Envelope Editing
Can’t make the Volume or Pan envelopes work like exactly like they did in Cool Edit Pro 1.x? Their behavior is slightly different in version 2. In order to get the points to appear on envelopes, make sure you first click on the wave block to give it focus; then you can edit the envelope points. (This behavior was changed to make it harder to accidentally click and create or move envelope points.)
Multitrack Insertion
Right-clicking in the Multitrack View’s Session Window and choosing the “Insert” item from the menu no longer produces a direct list of all open waveforms. Instead, there’s an item called “Existing File/Cue” which, when clicked, pops open a floating “Insert Into Multitrack” window. This small window lists the open waveforms and allows you to drag them to the desired track(s). If the waveform’s name has a plus sign next to it, this designates that it includes cues. Click on the plus sign to expand the file to see all the cue ranges, which can then be added directly.
Multitrack View Master Volume
In Cool Edit Pro 1.x, a master volume control appeared at the top of the Multitrack View’s Session Display. If you want to control a session’s master volume in Cool Edit Pro 2, you’ll need to use the new Mixers window. To activate it, go the Multitrack View’s View Menu and click “Show Mixers Window”. Docking the Mixers window to any of the side docking points (such as just to the right of the Session Display) will cause only the master volume slider to appear by default.
Splice/Split
The “Splice” function in the Multitrack View is now called “Split”.
