WaveMax is a graphical sound editor that does much more than just editing your WAV files. On one hand, it is capable of creating new audio files (either from an external source or by creating audio from any text using synthetic speech), make a frequency analysis of your sound files to detect lossy sources, and rip the tracks of your CDs. On the other hand, it not only supports WAV files, but also MP3, WMA, RAW, OGG, and others.
The editing functionality included is basically the one you may found in any other professional sound editors. You can normalize, amplify, fade (in and out), trim, and split any of your audio files, or fragments of them. The selection tools available offer different colors for the highlighted sections, and allows you to refine your selections either manually (by introducing the start and end times), or in a more graphical way via your mouse. Either way, you will be able to make accurate selections down to centiseconds (one hundredth of a second).
As for sound improvement, WaveMax is also well equipped with denoisers, sound cleaners, equalizers, dynamic range compressors, and so on. You can also add more creative effects, such as echo and reverb, perform sound reverse, and mix a whole track or a section of it with other sections or with different tracks. All of these options and many more can be applied either from the traditional menu options, the large collection of buttons available, or by opening a context menu by right-clicking. Besides, it includes a loop option that will allow you to repeat the last action as many times as you wish.
It supports a number of other audio formats besides WAV, such as MP3, WMA, and OGG. And if you prefer to work on the tracks of one of your CDs, this tool will rip them for you, and will let you mix and edit them in any way you pefer.
The text to speech functionality is really one of the highlights of this product. This is a feature you do not see very frequently in sound editors, or in many specialized sound recording tools, for that matter. You can use it in two ways – either by typing in your own text, or by cutting and paste text from any document. The conversion process works like a charm, and it is really fast. The quality of the output will vary according to the speech engine used, which can be selected beforehand (the default is Microsoft’s Sam).
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