do you use Audacity, Wave Pad or something else for sound editing?

[dr4sight]

Since I've started recording songs I play on my DGX-650 I have used Audacity for processing and tweaking the music.
Some tools don't come naturally to me (e.g. the envelope tool) despite watching the YouTube instruction videos.
Today I downloaded and installed WavePad.
My first impressions are good although I am not sure whether to switch to using it instead of Audacity.

I am wondering whether anyone has analyzed which program is better for sound editing.

Larry

[DrakeM]

The first thing I do is to balance out the style to the OTS that I am going to use and save the style to my USB stick.

Then I record the WAV performance using the onboard keyboard WAV recorder. Move the WAV recording to my PC and use a free program call VLC Media Player. That program has a default compression that I turn on.

Next I open Audacity and start recording as I open the WAV file with VLC. I then use the Audacity "Normalize" effect on the performance. Last thing is to save it as an MP3 file.

It is that simple to get a great sounding MP3.

Regards
Drake

[Bill]

Hi Larry

Try Ocen Audio - It's quite good but much easier to understand and use.

https://www.ocenaudio.com

Regards

Bill

[dr4sight]

I'll give it a look.  Anything that's easier is a plus   

[Michael Trigoboff]

Or, you could go whole hog as I have done, and buy Cubase Pro.

It costs $$$, and the learning curve is fierce, but you get a ton of abilities as the payoff for that money and effort.

[ticktock]

The first thing I do is to balance out the style to the OTS that I am going to use and save the style to my USB stick.

Then I record the WAV performance using the onboard keyboard WAV recorder. Move the WAV recording to my PC and use a free program call VLC Media Player. That program has a default compression that I turn on.

Next I open Audacity and start recording as I open the WAV file with VLC. I then use the Audacity "Normalize" effect on the performance. Last thing is to save it as an MP3 file.

It is that simple to get a great sounding MP3.

Blake, you can use VLC Media Player to convert wav to mp3. Ted

Regards
Drake

[YammyFan]

  Thanks Drake.       I  downloaded the  VLC Media Player successfully, but couldn't find the bit where it says "Default Compression"

Then I record the WAV performance using the onboard keyboard WAV recorder. Move the WAV recording to my PC and use a free program call VLC Media Player. That program has a default compression that I turn on.

[DrakeM]

Here's a pic of where to look

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