Reviewer, 2009-05-28 11:00:00

Home Audio Editor is a visual audio editor and recorder software solution, which supports many advanced and powerful operations with audio data.

Features: Home audio editor is of course and audio editor. It also is a recorder. It can thus not only create audio recordings but also do a lot of clean up work to produce professional quality content for you. It can open, create, and save audio files in any of the supported formats. It can also support partial file savings. Scenarios where the editor could be really useful are where you may want to save the content of your CD collection into one of the electronic formats, same with audio tapes and the vinyl collection you have, need to organize the music file or share them with family and friends. You may want to split, combine or use a snippet for a new creation, want to refine the recordings with change in levels/fade-in/out, change the play speed etc. Or add any other effects. You might even want to create a podcast, record a lecture or a course in real-time.

The editing is aided by the visual display of the recording in a waveform format. This waveform can have Zoom Full, Zoom In, Zoom Out, Zoom Vertical effects so that you can fix a precise point where one would like to add an effect. This helps visual edits by letting you do Cut, Copy, Delete Selection, Delete Silence, Paste, Paste From File, Mix, Mix From File. You can apply effects, filters or convert audio from one format to another. The effects that can be applied include Amplify, Compressor, Delay, Equalize, Fade In and Fade Out, Flanger, Invert, Normalize, Phaser, Reverb, Reverse, Silence, Shrink, Stretch, Vibrato, etc. The audio formats that are supported are Waveform Audio (PCM Wave) Files (*.wav), MPEG Audio (Various Layers) Files (*.mp3;*.mp2;*.mpeg), Windows Media Audio Files (*.wma), OGG Vorbis Audio Files (*.ogg), CD Audio Tracks (*.cda), VOX Dialogic ACPCM Files (*.vox), RAW Audio Files (*.raw; *.pcm), G.72x Audio Files (*.g721;*.g723;*.g726), AU Unix Audio Files (*.au;*.snd), AIFF Apple Audio Files (*.aif;*.aiff;*.aifc), MPC Audio Files (*.mpc) and DSP Audio Files (*.dsp).

Overall: A useful audio editor that can help you clean up audio recordings you create. But, before applying the effects and filters you should ensure you understand them clearly.