Create supersonic, professional sounding audio projects with Dexster Audio Editor. Even beginners can record, extract, edit and burn easily with our #1 choice and "TopTenREVIEWS Gold Award" winner.
Dexster Audio Editor, from Softdiv Software, may not offer as many editing tools as GoldWave, but it makes up for it in ease of use. Anyone can use this product to pull audio from video files, convert formats, record from the internet, add effects, filter or burn CDs.
The manufacturer is constantly improving the product and adding new tutorials and offers free upgrades for a year. This software can work with a wide variety of compressed or uncompressed WAV files as well as AIFF (Apple), AU, AVI, MP3, OGG and WMA (Windows).
Audio Editing:
This product can perform batch processing and conversions as well as edit marker and tag information. All of the edits have a preview option and are fully adjustable.
It supports quite a few preset effects, including compressor/expander, fade in/out, cross fading, flange, phase, normalize, envelope, reverb and vibrato. Dexster Audio Editor offers a good collection of filters including high and low shelf, notch, band pass, FFT and a peak EQ filter. It can also reduce silences and vocals and trim.
It would be nice if they had an effect chain editor and the ability to punch in/out, perhaps in one of their upcoming versions. A remarkable new addition is a noise reduction feature. Previous versions offered the ability to add noise, but none allowed you take noise away.
Recording/Burning:
It is easy to record with this product, you can record anything off the internet, from a line-in or it can rip from a CD or extract audio from a video file. It can also work with many formats and the manufacturer is always adding new formats through updates. The program will work with most WAV and MP3 type files and several kinds of video files. It also includes CD burning software.
Ease of Use:
This product has excellent support if you need help figuring out how to use their tools or create a specific effect. It has inter-program help pages, user guide, defined terms and tutorials as well as an online user forum, tutorials, FAQs and access to technical support by email. They update often and with purchase, you get free updates for a year.
Softdiv Software relates that this version is nearly 100% Vista compatible and that its next version will be entirely Vista compatible.
Summary:
Both creative and technical types can use Dexster Audio Editor to produce great sounding mixes for an online radio station, website or for a high-exposure corporate presentation.
This product can record anything, from a microphone to streaming audio and after you master your audio track, the program will help your burn it to a disc. From sound byte to hard copy, this product does it all.