Topic: Audio Processing - Creating Seamless Wave Loops

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Anyone know of a free or trial ware application (other than Sound Forge) for windows XP that will let me create a seemless audio loop form a wave file (any format)? Or if you know how to do this in Sound Forge 6/5 and actually get it to save correctly, that'd be a big help too.
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I know jack when it comes to Audio Processing. Well, no, that's not entirely true but for the life of me I can't find a program for Windows that'll let me process a simple wave file (any format) into a seamless loop. Just a simple overlapped cross fade at the beginning and end of the sample is all I need but gah!

Help!

I could do this at Uni with Pro Tools on a Mac but it's the last two weeks of semester and the Music Tech students are basically camping in the labs so I have to find another solution. I'm also running XP Pro here at home so I can't run the free version of Pro Tools and I don't have time to set up Win98 just for one program. I have a trial version of Sound Forge 6.0 and apparently this can do what I want it to do but it doesn't appear to be working.

I've read some thin tutorials on how to create seamless loops but this only appears to work when you export the selection as an acid loop or something like that and well, I don't know what that is. Any alterations work for the preview of the sound inside the application but when I save it it doesn't process anything. All the other features of Sound Forge seem to work fine so I doubt this is a trial limitation and I have seen nothing in the docs or license about this feature being limited in the demo. This seems like such a simple thing. Hell, If director could write binary sound files I could write a program myself to do exactly what I want in under an hour.

Any suggestions of how to get Sound Forge to play nice or any other free/trial applications that you know can do what I'm after would be a huge help.

I'm climbing the walls here! arrrg!



[This message has been edited by Dracusis (edited 05-28-2003).]

You might want to take a look at Cool Edit Pro.

It has a lot of features... This caught my eye:

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Loop-based song creation, including session tempo and key matching
Compressed loop file format (*.CEL file)
Thousands of free loops from Loopology.com

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It runs about $250 USD for the registered version... Cool Edit 2000 is a stripped version of Cool Edit Pro. I'm not sure that it will have the functionality that you are looking for however. Cool Edit 2000 runs $70 USD. There is a demo version that allows you some limited usage (basically two options) that you can download and see if it has the capabilities you need. I don't know if Cool Edit Pro has a trial version.

I know less than you do about sound editing...so I'm hopeful that this helps, if nothing else I got to blabber for a while.

GrythusDraconis
"I'm sick of hearing that beauty is only skin-deep. That's deep enough. Who wants an adorable pancreas?" - Unknown

[This message has been edited by GrythusDraconis (edited 05-29-2003).]

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Actually, I just figured out how to do it with sound forge... It was staring me in the face all this time.

It turns out I didn't need any special function to do this, I can just cut and mix the file myself. Heh, how stupid of me. This is like not knoing how to make a dropshadow in PS withough using layer effects.