$79 for this app is a rob. That is a really generous price for such a beautifully competent application.

It means, look nowhere else.

We've completely revamped our pricing. Wave Editor is now $79. This is not a stripped-down version. It is the full application. Enjoy!

This is some amazing stuff; one hour into getting a license, I'm already finishing a job for a client. I can't wait for the user forum, I hope that gets online at some point. The documentation alone is worth $250. The help desk, the converter, the DDP --wow.

I haven't felt this good about an audio software purchase since Digital Performer. Wave Editor is THE audio mastering and editing program for the Mac platform. It's beautiful to look at, highly customizable, well designed and intuitive. It's also visionary in that it allows you to layer edits and effects in a visual manner, removing or copying with a keystroke or mouse click. I have also been impressed with their customer and software support.

Wave Editor makes working with audio a joy and I haven't missed drudging through Peak one bit.

We're actually thinking about adding presets as a solution to this issue.

Also, I think it needs to be carved out in stone, that none of the "pro-sumer" competition (Peak, DSP Quattro, etc) will even come near the same degree of innovation as Wave Editor.

One example of this, would be the layering system in Wave Editor. Almost like Photoshopping with sound... it's just mindblowing.

Another one (as I said before) is the MIDI playability of the sounds you're working with.

The power of this app, compared to any of the lesser alternatives, is nothing but scary. :)

Buy it, if you plan to work seriously with sound.

There is just one thing that needs to be fixed, in my opinion. Which is, that it should remember the sound format settings between saves, and even better yet, between program restarts as well.

We have very purposely not developed a stripped down version. There are three very good options for rudimentary and inexpensive two-track editing: SoundStudio, Amadeus Pro and TwistedWave.

Wave Editor is very deliberately intended to be a pro audio or "pro-sumer" audio application. In that vein, it's significantly cheaper than other pro waveform editors such as Peak or DSP Quattro. For example Wave Editor 1.3.0 exports DDP, but the module required for that functionality in Peak is $399 alone (that in and of itself is $150 more than Wave Editor).

Well, it's a bit pricey though. How about a slightly stripped down version for all of us our there who ust want to do occasional audio editing and think audacity's awful GUI makes it worthwile to pay 50$ but not 250$?

I dare to say that I've probably been using every single audio editor/multitrack DAW of rank, for the Mac, since the early days of granpa SoundEdit 16.

I find Wave Editor to be the perfect choice, if you're looking for a well balanced combination of these factors:

- Light-weight application size & short startup times
- Simple to use and understand (good looks, a bonus)
- Creatively stimulating (no disturbing and/or complex elements in the way)
- Robust and stable

WaveEditor is very expandable. Apart from the usual stuff, such as being an AU host, it, for instance, sports great MIDI functions. You can instantly play whatever sound you're working with, by means of a MIDI keyboard! I'm not saying that Wave Editor is alone with this feature, but I've never seen it as smoothly implemented (without latency or glitches) as in W.E. And if you got more than one file open, you can play more than one sound at the same time. If you're using SoundFlower (a freely available system framework, for routing audio within your computer (out of any program, and back into any other program, or in and out of the same progam), you can re-record your live performance using the MIDI keyboard, and bring the new result back in; then you can play that new sound, again via MIDI, and record the result again, and so on... This, alone, makes it a great sound design tool, that I think none of the competitor apps can really reproduce. (Although, there are competitor apps to W.E., that does other little great things, which W.E. can't do. Ultimately, this is why I think it's good to have one main/favorite app for audio editing and/or multitrack sequencing, depending on what you're doing, and then an arsenal of different little dohickeys, that does certain things, and those only.)

For the casual user, its price tag might be a little steep, in which case I'd recommend Freeverse's Sound Studio as a second choice (if a price tag is still ok), and the free Audacity as a last resort (of price tag means "stay away").

There is also Apple's Soundtrack Pro, which is very competent and, I would say, the main competitior to W.E.. Both apps support multitrack editing - Soundtrack Pro being more conventional in doing so - and I think, the way W.E. handles multiple layers (or tracks, if you will), makes it one of its kind, right now.

But then again, some may hate the innovative concept of using W.E.'s, almost Photoshop-like concept of using layers, for stacking sounds upon sounds. That feature is going to boil down to a matter of personal taste, so give it a decent time of evaluation before shelling out the dough.