iKlee wrote:
hello gooroo,
your philosophy is probably right and easy to understand. anyway, just to clarify a little bit (and, be sure :-) no more than 1 time), i'll say that, though i'm using audio software for vlf radiowaves research since 1993, words such as "regions" or "bookmarks" are unknown to me, at the moment, in this field.
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These are terms which are essential to understand if one is to use WavePad successfully for music editing. In particular, I use music editing software (I noticed that you mention Amadeus II for the Mac) to process large sound files which may consist of many _unrelated_ musical selections or, in other cases, may contain different movements of a classical music selection, which need to be separted and identified separately for further processing. It is in performing these music editing tasks that the notions of "regions" and the use of bookmarks to keep all of this business straight is virtually essential.
I of course understand that there are numerous sound editing tasks which perhaps do not require the understanding of these (basic, in _my_ opinion) editing tasks.
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moreover just say how different any of us experience may be especially regarding what *you* have to do, i am using the mac since 1997 with soundedit, macthescope, amadeus II and pro, spectrafoo, signalscope pro and some more. still searching for something new and (hopefully) better, even to be proposed to other friends and collegues in our worldwide association (The Inspire Project) and journal, for the mac area, of course.
so far i have to say that the best suited for the vlf purpose is probably "spectrumlab" a freeware from a german ham, for win pc only.
maybe spectrumlab lacks a lot of very important features for the music or other audio fields but, as i said before, it depends on what *you* need to do. i do not see any vlf related software in the mac community, so i have to look for in different roads in order to realize the products who better fit with our needs.
anyway, since i'm not an english language guy, i may have misunderstood your meaning. i'm sorry about that.
i'd like take this opportunity to suggest (if i may) to the wavepad people to better clarify the difference between the 2 edition in the wavepad web pages directly. from my perspective potentially buyers will find that explanation useful.
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Suggest away :-). However, it has been my experience using WavePad, and following this forum for a long period of time, that this will not happen. You will note (if you make the considerable effort) that the vast majority of questions directed (particularly by new users such as yourself) into "thin air" for desperate clarification by somebody, somewhere, novice and/or experienced, are never answered. It is exceptionally rare when questions such as the type which you have will be answered here by those who, in my opinion, should be providing these answers. In other words, these answers for clarity and transparency and informed knowledge are quite unlikely to come from the general readership of these NCH forums; most of these folks are simply struggling tremendously to make sense of this whole complex scenario.
Apparently the NCH business model for selling an extensive line of audio-related software does not provide for such clarity and transparency, with the cost of doing business being given as the reason. Extremely few competing audio software developers use this same business model, although many do maintain user forums for discussion of their products. There is a huge difference here, in that _this_ forum is not a supplement to continuing support provided by NCH to its customers; rather, it is intended to serve as the sole support for those who choose not to pay an additional premium for direct company support.
If I have this wrong, I would like to apologize to NCH for getting it wrong.....Surely "the proof of the pudding is in the eating".
gooroo