Cool Edit
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    • Cool Edit is a digital sound editor for Windows. You might think of it as a paint program for audio- just as a paint program enables you to create images with colors, brush strokes, and a variety of special effects, Cool Edit enables you to "paint" with sound: tones, pieces of songs and voices and miscellaneous noises, sine waves and sawtooth waves, noise, or just pure silence.

    Cool Edit also gives you a wide variety of special effects to "touch up" your sounds: reverberation, noise reduction, echo and delay, flanging, filtering, and many others. It's like having thousands of dollars' worth of professional audio equipment all in one easy-to-use software package. Cool Edit has been praised in Morph's Outpost, Windows Magazine, Electronic Musician, and other publications as the leading wave editor for the Windows platform.

    Read on to find out more about Cool Edit, or scroll down to download and try it out yourself!

     Cool Features:

    Edit mono or stereo files up to 1 gigabyte in size
    Touch up files with functions like Filter, Amplify, Compress, Stretch, and Noise Reduction
    Record files from a CD, keyboard, or any signal played through your sound card
    Add fantastic effects with Reverb, Delay, Echo, Flanger, Distortion, and Envelope functions
    Generate Silence, Noise (White, Pink, or Brown), DTMF Signals, and Tones
    Edit multiple files simultaneously
    Merge files together with Paste Overlap and Paste Modulate functions
    Perform Frequency Analyses on your signals
    Convert file and sample types
    Use the Cue List and Play List to cue up and play the segments you specify
    Create named Presets to store your favorite processing function settings
    Create Scripts for automated processing and batch operations

    Who uses Cool Edit?
    Musicians, multimedia authors, broadcast professionals, telephony system engineers, scientists, and sound enthusiasts all over the world have chosen Cool Edit as their preferred sound editor. They use Cool Edit to master CDs, add sound to multimedia games and other applications, create automated phone answering and calling systems, hone sound bites for radio broadcasts, and analyze sounds as diverse as heart beats and bat calls. Cool Edit gives you total control. Graphic displays and intuitive controls for each function make it easy to achieve just the effect you want. You can also select from commonly-used Presets or create your own for later recall.

    Sound Formats Supported
    Windows PCM waveform (WAV)
    8-bit signed raw format (SAM)
    ACM waveform (WAV)
    Apple AIFF format (PCM encoded data only) (AIF)
    CCITT mu-Law and A-Law waveforms (WAV)
    Dialogic ADPCM (VOX)
    IMA/DVI ADPCM waveform (WAV)
    Microsoft ADPCM waveform (WAV)
    Next/Sun CCITT mu-Law, A-Law and PCM format (AU)
    Raw PCM Data
    SampleVision format (SMP)
    Sound Blaster voice file format (VOC)
    TrueSpeech (WAV)

    System Requirements
    Windows 3.1 or higher or Windows 95 or NT, 4 MB RAM, and 2 MB free hard disk space
    Recommended: Sound card, speakers or headphones, and mouse
    Optional: CD Player and microphone

    How much does it cost?
    You can audition all of Cool Edit's features with the shareware version. When you register your copy, Syntrillium will issue a registration number that will unlock the shareware version so that you can use Cool Edit fully. Syntrillium offers two registration levels for Cool Edit. For the $50 Basic Registration, you receive a registration number that unlocks your copy so that you can use any function at any time. For the $25 Lite Registration, you receive a registration number that gives you access to all the features of Cool Edit except the following: Compressor, Delay, Distortion, Echo, Echo Chamber, Envelope, Flange, Noise Reduction, Quick Filter, Reverb, and Generate DTMF Tones. Multi-user and site licenses are also available. Contact Syntrillium for details.

    Notice to PREVIOUSLY REGISTERED users:
    IF you're UPGRADING from Cool Edit 95 to Cool Edit 96, you DO NOT need a new registration number. Simply download the software and run the installer!

    If you're currently using Cool Edit version 1.50 or earlier, you'll need a new registration number from Syntrillium to use version 1.53. Click here to request a new number, and please include your current name and address in the message body. If you haven't already registered Cool Edit, download version 1.53 and choose "Registration Form" from the Help menu to find out how.

    96 Find out what's new in Cool Edit 96!

    NOTE: If you have trouble downloading Cool Edit from here, try one of our mirror sites:

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    Cool Edit manual

    MPEG filters for use with Cool Edit

    To enable Cool Edit to read and write MPEG audio (layers I and II), click on the appropriate filter pack below. Once you've downloaded the filters, just unzip the file to your Cool Edit directory. MPEG will show up as a supported format in Cool Edit's Open and Save dialogs.
    Developers:
     You can write your filters and processing functions (transforms) to use with Cool Edit. Cool Edit's APIs include sample code in C.
    Download 16-bit Filter and Transform APIs (about 86 KB)
    Download 32-bit Filter and Transform APIs (about 97 KB)
    Download source code for Cool Edit's 16-bit MPEG filters (about 119 KB)
    Download source code for Cool Edit's 32-bit MPEG filters (about 126 KB)


    Download 16-bit Filter and Transform APIs -- Alternate
    Download 32-bit Filter and Transform APIs -- Alternate
    Download source code for Cool Edit's 16-bit MPEG filters -- Alternate
    Download source code for Cool Edit's 32-bit MPEG filters -- Alternate


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