> I am in need of some fairly simple audio software; nothing fancy, just
> something that can record from one or more sources, split and splice one or
> more audio track, and compress one or more tracks (track one becomes
> background, track two foreground, and out puts to a third audio file)

I think Audacity is very cool.  Multitrack, good quality, a fair
number of useful tools and effects.  It's pretty much the standard
tool out there, for free.  http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

But let me say this about compression:  I have *never* been satisfied
with this.  I went through a fair number of < $50 packages out there
before finding Audacity, but NONE of them had what I consider even a
DECENT compressor.  I downloaded add-ins (or whatever thay call them)
and found the quality to be HORRIBLE.  I mean -- I expect a
compressor, cranked up to max, to produce a waveform of more or less
uniformly amplitude.  But no, what you get is something that looks and
sounds very unlike a compressor.  I wish I could figure this out!

Also slightly annoying is that you have to wait for the effect to
process the whole wave (or selected section) before auditing it.  You
can't compress on the fly and tweak in the settings.  It's trial (wait
wait wait) and error.

Audacity is very nice.  I would love to hear other's comments.

Craig
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