The editor itself:
Considering it was doing 16-bit 44.1 kHz since the early '90s, I sometimes entertain time-travel thoughts of going back to those days, basing a studio around it and just stabilizing on that platform for 30 years without any huge technical jolts to my music-making platform.
I still use it every so often.
I've been using Goldwave for 20 years. I do most of my work in FL Studio (writing, producing, and mixing/mastering songs), but when I need to do a quick edit, seamless loop, fade in/out, I always reach for Goldwave. I've tried many sound editors over the years — both free and paid — but I always came back to Goldwave. Yes; it still looks pretty much like it did in 2003, but I don't care because I find the UX and reliability to be unparalleled. I've gotten many years of value uot of my $50. I wish there was more software like this in 2022.
I hope they can open source it so it lives for a very long time.
> We would provide all of the source code for GoldWave Infinity under an open source license (GPL or MIT). To do that, we would need to raise two million dollars.
That was resolved, even though some people still seem to think it was/is/ever will be malicious.
I haven't used Audacity in a few years now but was always happy w it; what'd I miss?
This strikes me more as a retirement plan for the Goldwave devs.
If every software company closed shop by going open source, the world would be a better place:)
Any other alternative recommendations are welcomed, though.
2nd thing I wonder is why do they need money to develop the open source-version. If they just published the source as open source wouldn't that be it? Further open-source-developers then could develop it further.
always made sound editing fun and very productive.
