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Dec 07 2007

Free Wavosaur: Wonderful Windows Audio Editor with VST

Wavosaur is a free audio editor for Windows that just hit version 1.0. It’s really good stuff: not only is it free, but the whole app is tiny (488kb), it’s designed to fit on a portable USB key, it hosts VSTs, and it’s an elegant waveform editor reminiscent of early versions of SoundForge. Even if you’ve got a wave editor of choice, might be worth sticking this on your USB key when you’re on the go — especially since it supports Windows 98, XP, and Vista. And it doesn’t have an installer or touch the Registry.

I just gave it a spin on my Vista install, and really enjoy it — clean interface, lots of features.

Basic features:

Multiple file editing
All the editing and processing you need (convert channels, normalize, cut and paste, trim, fade in / out, the usual)
Pitch shift, vocal removal (karaoke, whoo!), loop points and markers
ASIO, VST support
Support for MP3, Akai, Amiga, and many other file formats
Analysis features (2D, 3D)

Hmmm, look out — some more popular wave editors might get a run for their money. Thanks to Art from Russia for the tip!

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9 Comments

ryan j

About damn time.
I’ll be giving this a whirl.

DX pluggin support would be nice…

December 7, 2007 @ 4:41 am

flip

But….will it blend?

December 7, 2007 @ 5:17 am

matous

it has strange system for effects (need to load dll) – not very straight forward and that is big stopper for me.

But I’d try it for sure, if it didn’t crash every time I press play ;(

December 7, 2007 @ 9:20 am

Richard Lawler

Nifty!

December 7, 2007 @ 12:22 pm

runagate

waveosaur has been around for quite a while and continues to get better and better. I’m glad for it to be getting some recognition finally.

December 7, 2007 @ 1:52 pm

seismo

@matous …

you need to specify your VST path in options>editor configuration, then it works as you’d expect it to.

happy to see a batch editing function on wavosaur.. i’ll be happier when it’s fully script-able a la sound forge/audition.

good stuff.

December 7, 2007 @ 6:42 pm

Kyran

I like how you can store effect racks. Now I can easily store my mastering rack.

Support for ogg and flac would be handy though (and the ability to record your windows mixer stereo out, now I need to keep audacity around for ripping dialog out of movies)

December 8, 2007 @ 8:38 am

MattyBoJangles

In anyone’s opinion, How does it compare to Audacity?

December 10, 2007 @ 6:19 pm

Peter Kirn

Well, Audacity has the advantage of being open source and running on Linux and Mac. But I find Audacity hopelessly clunky to use. The interface and editing functions here would make me choose Wavosaur hands-down as a free tool on Windows.