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Reaper rocks for multi track audio; 'unlimited' free trial.

Audacity is clunky and awkward to use. I prefer Wavosaur for destructive audio editing; it's more similar to Cool Edit Pro / Audition

http://www.wavosaur.com

wavosaur, 224kb program for editing audio files. This is indispensable to my post-production workflow. It's completely replaced Soundforge and Peak for me; wavosaur is a little clunkier at times but it does everything.

It's also got a bunch of batch-processing tools that lets you take thousands of samples and with one click of the mouse, resample, normalize, convert stereo to mono, or apply a bunch of other useful utilities.

And if audio files get corrupted (battery on your recorder died before file finished recording, protools crashed during recording), wavosaur lets you open the file as raw data and in 90% of the cases recovers your work. It has saved my ass more than once.

There are no free standalone options.

If you've got a DAW that supports VST, then there are a few free autotune VSTs available.

If you're using a DAW that only supports AU (like Logic) then you can use VSTAU to use the above VST plugins. Garageband does not support AU effects though.

If you can get them to cough up at least $99, then you can get a far superior option - Melodyne Essential, Melodyne is probably the eaisiest autotune software to pick up, and doesn't rely on you using it with other software.

All of the above options rely on you having an isolated audio track for each person singing.

AUTOTUNING IS HOURS AND HOURS OF WORK, and it isn't easy, especially if you're non-musical!

If you don't have an isolated vocal track, then save of shelling out $400 for the full version of Melodyne, what they want you to do is more or less impossible.

Tracktion 6 for the DAW and Wavosaur for sample editing. For VSTs, try http://www.vst4free.com

Reaper is not free. The demo is unrestricted, which appears to confuse people about the licensing terms.

I use Tracktion for music and for recording and doing high-level editing (compression/high-pass filter and noise gate).

For anything more detailed I prefer to use Adobe Audition. Years ago when I worked for Sony, I used Sony SoundForge and as it's pretty much time for me to update some software, I've been umming and aaaing about whether to go for the new Audition or go for SoundForge (or even something else). Adobe have switched to a subscription model that I'm not entirely comfortable with.

Most of the free programs are dreadful; they all have different fatal deficiencies: Some can't run VST plugins, some can't adjust the playback rate, some have no noise profile filtering, some don't support ASIO for input. Wavosaur is probably the best on Windows, but it's a bit buggy. There are very few mid-priced applications and the only one that's worth anything has yet another fatal deficiency.

So it's Audition or SoundForge and it looks like I'll end up subscribing for Audition because SoundForge doesn't do spectral editing unless you pay twice the amount to link it with Sony's other spectral editing application.

For your purposes make sure that whatever program you use allows you to use compression (dynamic amplitude compression, not the mp3-type), EQ (remove anything below around 80Hz) and possibly noise filtering. Everyone on the internet says to use Audacity, but I hate it. There are some real fundamentals missing from it. Wavosaur is very good, so you could give that a go.

If you need any help with whatever you try, just give me a shout and I'll see what I can do.

So this is a bit tricky because they didn't write midi notes but the hex code for midi. 0x indicates that this is a hexadecimal number, this means for you, ignore the 0x and only look at the numbers after it. Here is a MIDI note to Hex chart: http://www.wavosaur.com/download/midi-note-hex.php.

From page 30 on you have the messages sent by the controller, for example 'clip launch 6' sends 0x05 which corresponds to F -1.

The LEDs are a bit more tricky, from what I've gathered from a short look is that the MIDI channel decides the 'type' of light (primary colour/one shot/blinking/pulsing, page 18), the velocity decides the colour (also page 18) and from bottom page 13 on the LED corresponding to the midi message, example: 'Clip launch 15' LED corresponds to 0x0F which is note D0.

You could try using Adobe Audition but that Cost money

That's weird i never heard Audacity crashing from users

Maybe install the latest version? or free up some space

Or you could Try Wavosaur

It's an alternative to Audacity but it doesn't have that much features unlike Audacity

but you could give it a try

~~Not entirely sure what you're asking but if you want a compressor plug-in for modern audio software look into VST. Here's one: http://www.wavosaur.com/vst/compressor-plugins.php~~

EDIT: Sorry, should have looked at the site you mentioned. LA was a minor thing for a brief while but it had nothing on FLAC. SHN and TAK are some others along with APE which I still see from time to time. As Arve says above there's not much point when FLAC and ALAC are alternatives.

If you have the LA plugin for foobar2000 it should work with versions up to 0.8.3 which IIRC is when changes were made that obsoleted most plugins. You can find a copy on oldversion.com.

Yeah Aussie, going in as a submariner though. Don't exactly need to be super fit, not much you can run from on a sub. I was pretty unfit when I started. About 15kg overweight, all flab. Still got a bit of it hanging around and my weight hasn't dropped but I've lost about 3-4% of my body fat so at least I'm building muscle and losing the extra bits.

I've been focusing on a bit of upper body to get my pushups well and truly over the entry threshold. Never really done upper body stuff before, used to play soccer and hockey so it wasn't ever a focus for me.

I'm training 5 days a week, 2 days with a personal trainer. Every session involves a run, usually the 2.5km. Though I've been told to come in and do 5k's before every training session starting tomorrow so I imagine my improvement will continue fairly well. After that I do 1min of pushups, 1 min of situps, 3 1 minute supermans twice through. Then onto low row, high row and pull downs in one big super set of 16x3 increasing weight by 2.5kg each set.

> Im kind of shocked at the 9.0 shuttle run

In a good or bad way? When I started the shuttle run really fucked me. I had no idea how to manage myself throughout the run and couldn't sync with the rhythm. I would definitely say get in and do it since it's not quite the same as just running straight. Worth noting is the first couple of stages of each level are slightly faster than the rest so each time you reach a new level you need to pick up the pace for a few runs then settle back into a rhythm.

Open the mp3 in an audio editor and you can check out the timing of the intervals. I recommend Wavosaur just for looking at the track, it's a small download with no install just unzip and go. You can download the beep test from the defencejobs site here if you haven't got it.

If you are on PC then you can get Wavosaur http://www.wavosaur.com/ which can import those files fine (and export binary as well). Beware of byte order when messing with raw files though! Could open gem_destroyed.raw fine and export again

Edit, apparantly they have some kind of OSX wrapper now http://blog.wavosaur.com/

Try some of these: http://www.wavosaur.com/vst/spatial-imaging-plugins.php

I've used ProdySpace, it works pretty well.

A binaural effect is a difficult thing to simulate accurately because it's a difficult thing to even record accurately in a way that sounds convincing.

There are some programs that can change the song so that you mostly just hear the instruments. ( http://www.wavosaur.com/ ) But how well it works depends mostly on the how the song was mixed. With most songs at certain points you can still hear the vocals but they are much lower and kind of in the background.