Wave Editor 1.5.7 Build 7481 RC 2 / 1.5.6 Build 7152

Wave Editor is a Mac OS X document-based audio file editor, built with Cocoa from the ground up, and taking advantage of Quartz, Core Audio, and other solid OS X features.

Wave Editor takes over where Sound Designer II and Spark and left off — incorporating the standard audio editing features you are used to while bringing you up-to-date with the latest advances in speed, interface design, and stability, without compromising the power.

Here are some key features of "Wave Editor":

· Direct editing of AIFF, WAVE, Sound Designer, ACID Apple Loop, and Law audio files
· Partial support for Recycle (REX, RX2 and RCY) files
· Supports any sample rate or bit depth
· Supports any number of channels
· Supports interleaved and split channel files
· Imports and exports AAC, AC-3, MP3, and other CoreAudio-supported files
· Full-featured editing/processing commands
· Inspector for file, audio and metadata info
· Full or partial audio file analysis
· New (patent-pending) layering feature
· Live support for Audio Units
· Bezier curve-based fade overlays
· Highly advanced and detailed Loop Editor
· Unlimited undo
· Level meter, stereograph and spectrometer
· Based on the familiar Aqua interface
· Optimized for G4 and G5 with AltiVec
· Utilizes (and requires) features in OS X 10.4 (Tiger).

Limitations:

· 15 days trial

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· resolved an issue where the AU Validator application would crash
· resolved an issue where exporting files with sample rates lower than 44.1 to AAC would not work
· resolved an issue where 32-bit files created by Max/MSP would not open
· resolved an issue importing dual mono SDII files
· resolved an issue uploading FLAC files to SoundCloud
· improved the interface for advanced options in the Processor
· resolved an issue where saving large wave64 files would cause an application error
· resolved an issue where the SmartEdits List would report the wrong channel count
· resolved an issue where Cut/Copy to New Document would not include removed audio at the start of the file
· resolved a rounding error when Flattening
· resolved an issue where compressed CAF files would open natively