Power Audio Editor

Power Audio Editor is a digital-audio editor for home studio recording and for powerful audio editing.

Pros: Power Audio Editor application provides a variety of audio recording, mixing, editing, analyzing and effects processing opportunities. You can use it to record your own music, voice or other audio, edit it, mix it with other audio or musical parts, add effects like Reverb, Chorus, and Echo, and master it so that you can burn it to a CD, post it on the World Wide Web, or e-mail it. Audio files can be converted from one format to another that includes MP3, WMA, WAV, Ogg Vorbis and others. Coupled with the powerful editor and the effects that can be used the audio clips produced can be used to enhance effects of website pages, PowerPoint presentations or Flash animations.

Recording is as 2 channel stereo through the sound card, the package automatically identifies the audio card available. One can monitor the amplitudes appearing on each channel graphically. Inputs can be selected out of several possible ones.

Editing is quite easy. Users can select individual channels or both stereo channels together for doing the editing. One can apply cut/paste kind of editing on the waveform representation as easily as if it was being done on sections of text. Undo helps correcting mistake easy, should there be any and the user can start over again. Thus it is equally suited for professionals as well as amateurs learning their way around. A variety of audio effects and filters are available for use including Echo, Delay, Flanger, Reverb, Phaser, Quick Filters, FFT Filter, Amplify and so on. Use waveform or spectral view to analyze what needs to be one on the piece being edited and then correct shortcomings if any.

Cons: Nothing problematic noticed.

Overall a well designed application with easy to use interface. Takes a bit of learning for amateurs but one is able to learn quickly. Overall rating of 4 stars is well deserved.

Friendly interface allows you to perform lots of different operations in easy way. You can use it to record your own music, voice or other audio, edit it, mix it with other audio or musical parts, add effects like Reverb, Chorus, and Echo, and master it so that you can burn it to a CD, post it on the World Wide Web, or e-mail it. Power Audio Editor supports all major audio file formats. Power Audio Editor will be interesting for professionals and amateurs, it is very easy to use, it enables you to perform a lot of operations without any difficulties. Once you get started you will be surprised to see the possibilities this program offers to you. So what are the main functions of Power Audio Editor? Suppose you have recorded some audio data, now you can do whatever you want with it: cut it, copy, paste, move, the same operations that you can do with the text in a word processor. In case you make a mistake, press Undo button, and try again. Power Audio Editor has a great variety of audio effects and tools: Echo, Delay, Flanger, Reverb, Phaser, Quick Filters, FFT Filter, Amplify and many others. With the help of Power Audio Editor you can also analyze your audio data. Waveform View, Spectral View are at your disposal. It provides an intuitive, easy-to-use interface and is designed for the everyday user. You don't need to be a professional to use Power Audio Editor!