[RWP] Probably repeat question but...Re: hi all, I'm new in this list

[Patrick Perdue]

I consider Reaper and any dedicated audio editor mutually exclusive. You can edit audio with Reaper all night long, and it has advantages over a single track mastering editor such as GoldWave, or SoundForge, which I prefer, in combination with the old Sonic Foundry noise reduction plugin, which I keep going back to despite several supposedly better things out there.
I'm editing audio almost exclusively with Reaper these days, only using SoundForge for more simple tasks, final mastering, and some things that are just simply easier and faster than in reaper. I would never replace one with the other. However, mixing in Reaper with everything having it's own track is far more interesting than the single track sound-on-sound method provided by SoundForge. Which method I use depends on how much time I want to put into a project, how modular I want things to be later, etc. But again, I would never tell anyone to give up a dedicated audio editor and use Reaper exclusively for that purpose.

Reaper doesn't come with any restoration stuff, but you can use exteral VST or DX noise reduction plugins, like the Sony stuff, Waves, or others. This having been said, I prefer doing such things in SoundForge, though sometimes I use a combination of pre-processed audio in SoundForge, followed by another pass, configured differently, in real time on a track in reaper, as often, using only one pass of one particular algorithm of noise reduction doesn't quite cut it. It's always good to have options.

On Jan 14, 2012, at 11:54 AM, Merv Keck wrote:

> I used to depend on Adobe Audition 3 daily but recently had a severe vision loss that has me using gold wave for much of my audio editing.  I have been legally blind all my life but use Jaws & Magic together so used Adobe for the big jobs and gold wave for small ones because Adobe had great noise reduction and restoration tools.  However now that I have Magic on 20 instead of 10 I find that Adobe is more of a chore and am looking for more accesibility which Audition 3 does not have.
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> My question is does Reaper offer audio editing tools similar to gold wave or is it more for midi?  I play bass and guitar but most of my audio editing is work for my church web site that I have begun to develop.  This means editing voice mostly and reducing background hiss, hum, and other noise.  It also means occasionally cleaning up songs so I can burn the Christmas or Easter Cantata to CD etc and make them presentable and not sound like an old 45 record which is wha they currently sound like after Gold Wave is done with them.
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> I realize you get what you pay for and Audition is hundreds and gold wave is 50 and so is reaper or about that much.  However, I'm looking to combine various tools if I have to in order to get an accessible audio editing toolkit at my disposal.  I'm still learning to exist at this current level of blindness.  I've heard nothing but good things about reaper so I thought I would ask.  I like Gold Wave and it's certainly worth the $50 but I miss Audition.
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> Thanks for your patience
> blind5sparrow
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> -----Original Message----- From: blue wings
> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 2:39 AM
> To: Reapers Without Peepers
> Subject: Re: [RWP] hi all, I'm new in this list
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> Thanks, do you know of any podcast about using reaper with rea acces in the
> practice?
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Brown" <cursebuster at samobile.net>
> To: <rwp at reaaccess.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 11:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [RWP] hi all, I'm new in this list
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> 
>> Hey Ralf,
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>> Welcome to Reaper,...I hope you enjoy the reaper journey...
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>> As far as I'm concerned,...reaper is the most accessible DAW on the net,...and it doesn't break the bank,...Then, that is just my personal opinion...
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>> If you work with it you can get much out of it,...I'm using System Access, and I'm doing just fine with some work arrounds...
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>> There are lots of helpful people on this forum,...and your questions will be answered,...just be patient...
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>> 
>> Kevin
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