A good audio editor?

[Louigi Verona]

During Windows days I was an avid user of GoldWave and to this day consider it to be the best audio editor around, both in terms of functionality and usability. It is simply a very good piece of software.
But it is proprietary (uh oh) and it is for Windows.

I tried Audacity. I have to be honest - I do not like it. Not only it crashes a lot, seemingly randomly (I am using Ubuntu 9.04, installed from repo, but same thing was on Karmic), I also do not like the workflow and the interface and the fact that opening a new file opens a whole new instance of a program. I also dislike editors which require to create project files. I just want to edit and save wave files!

I did try out some other audio editors - Jokosher (cut, but very limited imho and is more like a basic multitrack editor), Sweep (original, but very weird and for some reason it plays no sound on my system), Traverso (also a multitrack recorder, not really a sound file editor).

So far, I am left with Audacity. Any other options?

[autostatic]

Rezound maybe?

[StudioDave]

Louigi, did you notify anyone at Ubuntu or the Audacity site regarding the crashes ? I use Audacity constantly on my Debian box, never had a crash yet.

You can export your edits as WAV files. It's not difficult.

I've used GoldWave too. ReZound might be a good alternative.

[Louigi Verona]

Have not reported this. Audacity crashes (more accurately to say, it freezes) when I start zooming in and out, so it seems.

I have tried out ReZound and am impressed with it greatly. It is similar to GoldWave, but there are also very good functions which GoldWave does not have. Also, the fact that it supports JACK is great since I can edit files without leaving JACK mode.

[Scary Hallo]

I used WaveLab in my Windows-Days. I loved the feature that I could adust the parameters of my plugins while playing the song (and heat it). I think thats not possible in Audacity or any other audio-editor. Or am I wrong?
But at the end of the day, I think Audacity is ist a good editor for me.

[Havoc]

Another vote for Rezound. Altough it looks like standing still at the moment.

I'm still missing CEP from my windows days, the only application I really miss. Just nothing like it for restoration.

[zettberlin]

Rezound is great but it is in desperate need for an upgrade. It does not really fit in the recent audio-environment of Linux. Especially its jack-implementation is ancient to say it friendly...

I am absolutely enthusiastic about sonic visualizer:

http://www.sonicvisualiser.org/

it supports jack very well, has tons of features and the best: you can play a loop and adjust FX-settings in Realtime. Its like snd became usable overnight

[Havoc]

I took a look at the Sonic Visualiser website, but is this an editor? Can't make it out from the site.

[zettberlin]

I took a look at the Sonic Visualiser website, but is this an editor? Can't make it out from the site.

Yes, it can be used as an Editor. You can apply FX and export ranges as you can with any other editor...