GoldWave is a top rated, professional digital audio editor. GoldWave is the most advanced and complete audio editor available in its price range. It includes all of the common audio editing commands and effects, plus powerful built-in tools such as a batch processor/converter, a CD reader, and audio restoration filters that cost extra in other similar programs. Comprehensive, easy to use, and efficiently engineered, GoldWave offers the best value in audio editing software. With over 10 years of development and widespread usage, it has an excellent and unmatched track record.

GoldWave can do::
· Play, edit, mix, and analyze audio
· Record audio from cassettes, vinyl records, radio, etc. through your computer’s line-in
· Record dictation through a microphone or play dictation back at a slower speed for transcription
· Record and edit audio for podcasting
· Apply special effects, such as fade, equalizer, doppler, mechanize, echo, reverse, flanger, and more
· Digitally remaster and restore old recordings with noise reduction and pop/click filters
· Make perfect digital copies of audio CD tracks using the CD Reader tool and save them in wma, mp3, ogg files
· Edit music for dance programs, figure skating, gymnastics
· Analyze human speech, bird song, whale song
· Demonstrate digital signal processing with filter effects and the expression evaluator tool
· View a variety of real-time visuals and VU meters
· Convert files to/from different formats, such as wav, wma, mp3, ogg, aiff, au, vox and even raw binary data

General Features:
· Multiple Document Interface for working with many files in one session
· Huge file editing: 4GB and beyond (NTFS only)
· Configurable RAM or hard drive editing
· High quality: 24 bit, 192kHz
· Real-time visuals: bar, waveform, spectrogram, spectrum, VU meter, ...
· Fast non-destructive editing. Cut, copy, delete, and undo take only a fraction of a second, regardless of the file size
· Multiple undo levels
· Many effects: distortion, doppler, echo, filter, mechanize, offset, pan, volume shaping, invert, resample, equalizer, time warp, pitch, reverb, volume matcher, channel mixer, ...
· Effect previewing and presets
· Audio restoration filters: noise reduction, pop/plick, smoother
· Supported file formats (wav, mp3, ogg, aiff, au, vox, mat, snd, voc, raw binary data, text data, and more)
· File format plug-ins for the next generation of audio compression, such as WMA, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC.
· DirectX Audio Plug-in hosting
· Effect chain editor
· Audio CD Reader
· Batch processing and conversion
· Drag-and-drop cue points, with auto-cue and file splitting features.
· Direct waveform editing with the mouse
· Customizable tool bars
· Customizable waveform colours
· Several built-in accessibility features and keyboard shortcuts

Changes in v5.20 include:
-Updated FLAC and WMA file plug-ins
-QTFile plug-in
-"Check for Updates” feature
-Several fixes and improvements

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