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!
9 Comments
Leave a Commentryan 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.
December 10, 2007 @ 6:23 pm
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