best (affordable/free) loop point software??

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best (affordable/free) loop point software??

Post by EleanorGrace » Fri Feb 26, 2021 12:36 pm

Hi everyone,

I am seeing if my old Sound Forge 10 (Sony light version) has actual "loop points".. ugh.. nm.. apparently they abandoned it (no registration server up anymore) which is a shame.. it was basically soundforge 4.5 simple but it did a good job still.

Apparently Audacity doesn't support this and I'd like to edit some samples because my Peavey SP supports loop points.

Zero-X does a good job but I can't seem to find a way to get a full version.. like please take my money.. but there seems to be a bit of a hunt to find a legit owner of the software these days..

So I thought I'd look to see if anyone has any knowledge of a good (ideally free / affordable) solution for making wavs that have loop points. Zero-X seemed like the best option I could find, but being stuck with a demo version that won't let me save my work is a bit of a downer..

my searching has often come up with programs for DJ's or Ableton but these are loop based composition programs, not wav editors.

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Re: best (affordable/free) loop point software??

Post by Ashe37 » Fri Feb 26, 2021 10:59 pm

Sound Forge was sold to Magix. There is an upgrade for it....

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Post by Big Gnome » Fri Mar 05, 2021 11:02 am

Wavosaur can read and edit loop points. Yeah...really wish Audacity would implement that...*sigh*
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Re: best (affordable/free) loop point software??

Post by meatballfulton » Fri Mar 05, 2021 5:33 pm

That's the breaks with open source apps. If noone wants to take on a feature it doesn't get implemented. I'm honestly amazed that Audacity works as well as it does.
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Re: best (affordable/free) loop point software??

Post by Big Gnome » Sat Mar 06, 2021 9:03 am

Well aware, being primarily a Linux guy myself these last couple of years. I find Audacity superb (within its somewhat limited scope); mostly I'm surprised in that support for these very sorts of niche functions is where FOSS stuff tends to really excel, and it does seem like a conspicuous oversight. Oh well...
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