HENRIKTEKNIK  This is a winning app. Wave Editor is an extremely well-adviced craftsman tool for prestigious audio athletes.

It deserves the highest accolade for maintaining an even balance between ultimate simplicity and insane competence. Every once in a decade, a brilliant star will hit the software market—this is my pearl. One that I would swear upon and even be willing to speak in fanatic tongue about, should there be any slandering about it.

I can't see how anyone into sound design using Mac would ever want to look for something else. This is the audio software world's equivalent to the X-Acto knife.

A few examples of its selling points, to me, would be:

- Zero, null, zilch playback stuttering. And I repeat, none.

- Direct MIDI playability of the sample you work with (again, without no stuttering ever; just like having a sampler with very competent editing facilities)

- A single track - Multiple layers. This is a novel approach in the genre, and I think this gives a very organic feel—almost like modeling—to it, when adding and subtracting layers in your project. Even better, all layers can have separate effect plugins attached to them; hell, even multiple sets of audio plugins on each layer. (Which is just one example of how deep this seemingly spartan app can be.)

- Well, read for yourself, the specs on the developer website. The app is actively developed and has been around for a good while now. I've been using it since it first launched, years ago. The developer team is also a very conversational group, who listen well to what their customers have to say.

One note, before wrapping it up. This app used to cost a lot more than 3 times its current price: $250 before, $79 now.

I'm sorry if it looks suspicious, but I can't give this app anything but fives in rating. That is an accurate score.  
(Version 1.4.4)

BOBBY DELGATO  Screenshot looks like 1984, is it watching you? ;-)  
(Version 1.4.3)

HENRIKTEKNIK  Wave Editor is the most powerful, impressing audio editor I have ever seen. It's my bread and butter of all things audio.

I usually tend to write fairly long reviews, but in this case, I don't know where to begin.

I'm just going to say, here's my 5 stars, and thanks to Wave Editor, I have found my way home.  
(Version 1.3)

STEVECOX  I'm a proud owner of Wave Editor after I fell in love with Spectre (Audiofile's audio analyzer). Both of these apps are optimized for 10.4, utilizing OpenGL and Quartz. These apps are fast!

I have an early MBP because I wanted to edit 24/96k files and that was bringing my not-so-old PB using Apple's Soundtrack Pro to a screeching halt. So I thought for more horsepower I'd get a MBP. Turns out it was way too early for Apple to have a universal release of Soundtrack Pro. Then I found out that it would not be offered separately but only bundled with Final Cut Studio. I had some experience with Soundtrack Pro so I took the plunge and got the universal upgrade in early April. My biggest disappointment early on was still very slow performance. I could open files I couldn't before but it was very slow and the processor cores weren't even being utilized that much at all. It seemed I was I/O-bound. I haven't been happy at all with the universal Soundtrack Pro release. I expected much more in the way of optimization.

In comes Wave Editor... I wasn't even looking for a new waveform editor. Not because I was happy with Soundtrack Pro but because I didn't think there was anything better out there and I had already spent a wad of cash. As I was testing Spectre from Audiofile I thought I might as well download the 15 day trial of Wave Editor to see the interoperability between their own apps. I couldn't believe how fast the app launched and loaded my files. It was trivial to add an AUNetSEnd and set Spectre to receive them. I found that I was working MUCH faster and more efficient. It was no longer frustrating working with larger files. During my trial period with Wave Editor there was a useful update. I love this app!

I am extremely pleased with Audiofile and their committment to their software. I'm spending a lot more time being productive and having fun again.   
(Version 1.2.2)

WOOFSPUP  This is a follow up to my posted review:

Since I first wrote that review of Wave Editor, we have made a server change, so the address listed, pointing to the videos to watch has also changed. The new address is this: http://razormaid.com/Training/index.html

If you have any other questions about WE or would like to try something different, feel free to contact me directly and we will get back to you right away.

Takce care,

Joseph Watt

Razormaid Productions

http://www.razormaid.com  
(Version 1.2.2)

RAZORMAID2  My name is Joseph Watt and I am the owner of Razormaid Productions, a professional remix service for Dance Music worldwide. I was one of the original members of the team back in 1986, that helped mold and shape Sound Designer II into the timeless entity that is was. It held the prestigious honor of being the best of the best for nearly two decades. Unfortunately, back in 1997 when lawsuits froze it in time forever, we thought that was the end. When Apple took the leap to UNIX and Digidesign had no way to alter the program (as terms of the lawsuit settlement) we thought our days were numbered... and the were.

In September of 2006, through MacUpdates.com, I discovered a little program called Wave Editor. Keep in mind, like hundreds of you, I too has taken in by programs like Spark and Peak, with promises of things it just could not do - in Peak's case even today after numerous attempts by me to offer to help them "get it right" - so I was skeptical when I first downloaded the free 15 trial version of WE (Wave Editor).

While I waited for it to download, I read a bit about the programmers, through their online bios. When I saw the phrase, "We wrote this program to pay homage to Sound Designer II"... I knew instantly I found the right program... or so I thought.

My first reaction to the free download was not a good one. When I went to the pulldown menu's expecting to see all the same things I had in SDII, it hardly had anything at all. Even the preference window only had the option to change the sound wave's color. What's up with that? I mean, despite it's obvious flaws, even the dreadful PEAK program had similar "phrases" to SDII, so I was about to bail on this program, until I wrote to the programmers to ask them what part of WE did they pay homage to SDII with, 'cause I can't find it.   
(Version 1.2.1)

DIE MENSCH-MASCHINE  What can I say about Wave Editor? Plenty!!! If you've ever used Sound Designer 2 then had to switch to Peak, and are longer for the glory days of SD2, you're in luck! Wave Editor picks up where SD2 left off and leaves the rest in digital dust! For starters, all keyboard commands are assignable so you can feel comfortable using it however YOU want to and not how the programmer thought you should. Making a Region Playlist of all your edits is as easy as drag 'n' drop. Want to change BPMs without changing the pitch? No problem! You can do it using the slider, percentage, or good ol' fashioned numerics (i.e. 120 bpm to 135 bpm) and the end result is even better than Prosoniq's "Time Factory". The newest and coolest feature is Layering. You can take a soundfile and literally "layer" one on top of another and even adjust the volume. If you like what you hear then you can "flatten" the two together creating one complete file AND you can do that as many times as you want! You can even record to your hard disk, make crossfades, save your files in multiple formats, color code regions, ...the possibilities are virtually endless! There are way too many features to write about here but this is going to be THE Macintosh editing product for the rest of 2005 and beyond. If you have a Mac that's running 10.4 (that's the minimum requirement) go to their website and try it out for 15 days. You don't even need any extra hardware to run it. Just download it, place it in your Applications folder, and you're done!  
(Version 1.1)

REDMAN  Wow! I'm so excited to have this piece of software. A great audio editor with great features. The added playlist is the feature I like the best. Precise crossfades and fast accurate manuverability. I have purchased every audio editor for OSX and feel like I have finally found one that will meet my needs. I'm amazed to find new and interesting features evey time I work in this software. Hat's off to the guys at Audiofile Engineering for developing a truly USEFUL piece of software!  
(Version 1.1)

EUSKIR  Wave Editor make a couple of jumps in my dock, and then...nothing. What's wrong here?  
(Version 1.0.1)

ANONYMOUS  Looks promising, might be a little pricy...

Next best thing to soundtrack pro...  
(Version 1.0.1)