If you want crystal clear high fidelity sound burned direct to CD, you can have it. Like WavePad, MixPad outputs in any audio format and any quality you're likely to need. You can record directly into the application and then edit and enhance it in a standard waveform graphical view.Īudio editors are all a little daunting at first sight, but it doesn't take long to learn to trim, cut, copy, paste, and add effects like voice compression – for that tight sound you hear on FM broadcasts – and echo, reverb or other enhancements. įor audio recording, we've relied on NCH Wavepad for many years. NCH is in rare company as a 25-year-old software company, and the Canberra stalwart remains one of the best available for sound and video editing. There are dozens of options for the recording, editing, compiling and conversion tools we need, but NCH is a one-stop shop. We create a lot of training videos that compile spoken word soundtracks, often with some music and a few sound effects, Powerpoint-style slides and even some video. In 2018, it offers dozens of applications, focusing on audio, image and video utilities, but adding an eclectic mix of software allsorts. If software was movies, NCH wouldn't have won any best picture Oscars, but it would certainly be in line for a lifetime achievement award. And then there's Australia's own NCH, a hardy software survivor from Canberra, this year racking up its quarter century in the game. There's Microsoft and Apple, of course, and Adobe and IBM and Oracle, for instance. A handful of software publishers can claim a 25-year history.

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