Give birth to your own sound files right at home. Product/Link: Goldwave Synopsis: Sound editor. Requirements: Windows 9x. Price: Shareware, Canadian$55.00. Rating: Excellent. Comment:

We've used various versions of Goldwave since 1996, finding it more than adequate for most of our sound editing needs. We paid less back then and it's paid off: once you register Goldwave all future releases are free. Version 4.1 is chockfull of more features than we'd care to list, but here's a sampling: Edit files up to 1GB; real-time graphs (amplitude, spectrum, bar, and spectrogram); real-time fast forward and rewind playback; lots of effects (distortion, Doppler, echo, filter, mechanize, offset, pan, volume shaping, invert, resample, transpose, noise reduction, time warp, pitch, and more); supports and converts all important formats (WAV, AU, IFF, VOC, SND, MAT, AIFF, MP3, OGG, and raw data); edit right and left channels separately. What it all means is you can create your own sound files from scratch and/or from others (see our Wave Files page). Create tracks for slide shows and videos, customize birthday, anniversary, graduation, holiday sounds, show off with stereo effects. Dog in stereo (left to right, 71KB) Send them to friends, put them on your own Web site, assemble your favorite tunes for personal use. Singing dog (mixed with music, 35KB) While Goldwave is capable of some very sophisticated effects you may never use, it makes simple cutting, pasting, fading, and mixing easy. Conclusion: Perfect if it handled MIDI files, but otherwise an outstanding program, and a good investment.