Review: Wavosaur is tiny and free, but it’s still a full-featured audio editor - smithealaings

At a Glance

Expert's Rating

Our Verdict

Wavosaur is an eye-popping programming feat, with overloaded support for VSTfx and Asio. This high-featured audio editing (sans FX) program is a flyspeck, ultra-efficient, and free package.

A man-portable, broad-featured audio editor that supports ASIO and VST FX in a mere 225KB download? Wavosaur is tight programming and and then some. But despite its tiny footprint, this dislodge audio frequency editor has tons of features so you can change bit rates, convert, create and apply intensity envelopes, cut, dice, fade, detect beats, normalize, and much many.

Information technology's likewise really fast in applying those edits and non-destructive, which agency you may undo your actions without reloading the original lodge.. What Wavosaur doesn't do is reverb, chorus, rim, and compress, etc. Instead, the curriculum relies on VST effects plug-ins (Virtual Studio Technology, a standard from industry heavyweight Steinberg) for FX. That's no doubt part of the reason it's so efficiently-moderate-sized. You can rule download golf links and listings of many free people VST effects plug-ins on the Wavosaur website if you've none of your ain.

Though somewhat Windows 95 in coming into court, Wavosaur is extremely easy to use, fast, and efficacious. Don't Army of the Pure determine-cognizance deter you.

Wavosaur also supports ASIO (ASynchronous Stimulus/Output), another Steinberg standard for low-latency audio so you send away record alongside a wave file you're editing without a lot of lag.

The Wavosaur interface is underspent, though a act old-school in appearance. You can pier the numerous toolbars at the top surgery bottom of the editor program window or detach them to be adrift. It isn't particularly pretty, but it gets the line of work done quite nicely.

Wavosaur is proud, and for straight audio redaction, it's amazingly powerful. Download it, still if it's just to see how small you can go when you compose tight code.

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Jon is a Juilliard-trained instrumentalist, former x86/6800 programmer, and long-time (late 70s) information processing system enthusiast living in the San Francisco bay expanse. jjacobi@pcworld.com