Why do I need a wave editor.

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I use Ntrack and continue to learn and enjoy

But can someone explain what a wave editor will do for me that I cannot do in ntrack -- I know it is needed but I am not clear on why and what it will do -

I know I can set up utrack to go to the external wave editor
(when I get one)

Lets say I have a project with 15 tracks going and then send it to the wave editor---
What then? How does it show up in the wave editor? (Hope that makes sense)

I know from lurking and reading that It is needed --- I just have to learn why ---
Then I beez a gettin me one!

anyway any links, or education you can give me or direct me to will be appreciated.
 
only reasons

you need an external editor are if it has some feature you need not in your main multitrack application.
for example noise reducing a track, or say an echo effect thats in cool edit or some other pleasing effect. or say a filtering algorithm.
you only export ONE TRACK by the way.
try goldwave, audacity(free), cool edit 96 (no 24 bit i dont think only 16 bit), and there are numbers of others on the internet.
there is also the free muzys , another multitrack recorder
but with additional features.
if were me i would keep n track. a superb product imho ,
and maybe get sound forge cheap somewhere. the noise reduction is excellent and there are many other excellent
fx and editing tools and restoration tools.
forge plus n track is a great combination imho.
 
Hey thanks manning,

What do you mean you export one track,

one track at a time of does the export send one track of the whole mix?

So the wave editor is where you really do the "Mastering?"
Do I understand that right?

I really like ntrack and have gotten use to is and it's features --

great suggestion about sound forge -- have heard good things about goldwave -- that it is like the ntrack of wave editors
 
hi,

wave editors such as sound forge 7.0, wavelab 4.0, or the multitracking cooledit pro are the tools for detail to say that guitar track that just sounds to tinty. you can get in there and do surgery on your track and then pull it back to n-track where you try to get a good mix.

having done that now it's time for mastering and possibly composing a red tape cd. soundforge has a plugin called wave hammer that simplifies the art of getting that thumping compressed sound found on good commercial cd's, a combination of limiting and compression.

my favorite is sound forge but I have grown very use to it over several years and really use not much else now-a- days.

baba
 
Any recommendations as to where to get the best deal on Sound Forge?
 
hi,

sound forge 7.0 can be found on www.epinions.com w/links to the lowest prices on the web. version 6.0 was $299.00 last time I checked. an acedemic version of 7.0 including cd architect was going for $169.00.

best to try the trial version from sony's media website which is about 30+ MB download. if you need all the many features of sound forge and can justify the high price, the trial can become the full version with a reg code from sony.

if you don't need this many features, there are many available wave editors that have enough going on to use and be productive. nero burning rom used to have a wave editor bundled with it that was quite nice.

cheers,
baba
 
frankly at those prices i would try cool edit 96. the original and one of the best imho. it might just do the job.
or golwave. even the free audacity you could master in.
its got all sorts of mastering features including special eq curves.
or wait for a deal on forge at a closeout around 60 bucks.
lots of wave ditor demoes at hitsquad.com
by the way n track and a few plug ins should be able to get good masters.
 
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