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I recorded my first songs on audacity, I love this piece of software!

by tpabla 9y ago

xellisx 9y ago
Back in my day, we had Windows Recorder and Cool Edit.
- laumars 9y ago
  I don't think anyone used Windows Sound Recorder for anything serious. It had a built in maximum record length for starters (I think to prevent piracy?). Sound Forge was my preferred editor for years before Audacity matured. Cool Edit was ok, but I seem to recall it had a bizarrely over-designed UI that made the thing feel more like a toy than a serious tool. Particularly when compared to the much older and more feature rich (at that time) Sound Forge. It took a while before Cool Edit really became competitive and by that point I was already using Audacity. I do still miss some features of Sound Forge even now. Though I don't tend to do too much with audio editors these days compared to the stuff I was doing in the 90s and 00s.
  - whatever_dude 9y ago
    > It had a built in maximum record length for starters (I think to prevent piracy?). It was somewhat related to the memory the computer had. I think it tried to store audio all uncompressed in memory. At the very least it varied a lot between different machines. I remember trying it in a super low spec machine and it could record up to about 5s max.
- dguaraglia 9y ago
  Haha, Cool Edit... now, that's a name I haven't heard in forever. Cool Edit and Paint Shop Pro were like the highest end crackeable shareware I never had a use for, and yet for some reason were the first thing I'd install on every new Windows install.
- bobsgame 9y ago
  Cool Edit is now Adobe Audition
  - pishpash 9y ago
    TBH, Cool Edit was better. Audition is crass.
- reaperducer 9y ago
  Back in my day we had SIDEdit. And you would solder one SID chip on top of the other piggy-back style to make sweet stereo music.
- mildavw 9y ago
  You never forget your first! SoundEdit16: https://www.file-extensions.org/imgs/app-picture/2247/soundedit.jpg https://www.file-extensions.org/imgs/app-picture/2247/sounde...

I recorded my first songs on audacity, I love this piece of software!

by tpabla 9y ago

I recorded my first songs on audacity, I love this piece of software!

xellisx 9y ago

Back in my day, we had Windows Recorder and Cool Edit.

laumars 9y ago
I don't think anyone used Windows Sound Recorder for anything serious. It had a built in maximum record length for starters (I think to prevent piracy?). Sound Forge was my preferred editor for years before Audacity matured. Cool Edit was ok, but I seem to recall it had a bizarrely over-designed UI that made the thing feel more like a toy than a serious tool. Particularly when compared to the much older and more feature rich (at that time) Sound Forge. It took a while before Cool Edit really became competitive and by that point I was already using Audacity. I do still miss some features of Sound Forge even now. Though I don't tend to do too much with audio editors these days compared to the stuff I was doing in the 90s and 00s.
- whatever_dude 9y ago
  > It had a built in maximum record length for starters (I think to prevent piracy?). It was somewhat related to the memory the computer had. I think it tried to store audio all uncompressed in memory. At the very least it varied a lot between different machines. I remember trying it in a super low spec machine and it could record up to about 5s max.
dguaraglia 9y ago
Haha, Cool Edit... now, that's a name I haven't heard in forever. Cool Edit and Paint Shop Pro were like the highest end crackeable shareware I never had a use for, and yet for some reason were the first thing I'd install on every new Windows install.
bobsgame 9y ago
Cool Edit is now Adobe Audition
- pishpash 9y ago
  TBH, Cool Edit was better. Audition is crass.
reaperducer 9y ago
Back in my day we had SIDEdit. And you would solder one SID chip on top of the other piggy-back style to make sweet stereo music.
mildavw 9y ago
You never forget your first! SoundEdit16: https://www.file-extensions.org/imgs/app-picture/2247/soundedit.jpg https://www.file-extensions.org/imgs/app-picture/2247/sounde...