Just to add to Joes excelent comontary: GoldWave also supports keyboard
mapping to pretty well all functions of the program.
Cheers.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Paton" <[email protected]>
To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 04, 2011 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: Totle Recorder verses GoldWave?
Carlos,
Ok. Think about what you want to do. Obviously you want to record, using
the PC. You'll want the most input resources available to you. Line-in,
stereo mix, .wav and whatever else your sound card supports.
Capturing the audio, in which ever form, can be done by most recording
software, that is not the end of the matter.
You might need or want, or have to edit some recordings. For most
processes, goldwave has full keyboard support, and integrates with most
major screen readers to a greater or lesser extent; I.E there may be
scripts or setfiles to improve access, but these are not necessary when
you understand the audio software you are running and have a good working
knowledge of the screen reader in use.
If itr's straight recording, with little edditing, then mp3 direct cut
will facilitate the recording of audio with .mp3 files as the output file
format. This is free, but cutting, copying, pasting, equalizing only the
volume fading in/out is just about it with mp3 direct cut. but it's
fairly straight forward, and will capture and save audio.
Goldwave, Sound forge, record all and total recorder are but a few audio
editing packages which give reasonable access .
The goldwave dev. team are always responsive to the needs of screen
reader/magnifier users, and will take on board, then modify or repair
elements if they are broken, or just not accessible; That is worth paying
fifty or sixty canadian dollars for in my opinion.
Sony's sound forge, although you didn't mention this, is extremely
powerful, and is the highest price tag.
In earlier versions, care needed to be taken with the total recorder
drivers, because they conflicted or isolated other required sound drivers.
This was not difficult to fix, but caught a few of us on the hop when
things that used to work no longer worked. This issue may have been
resolved for further stable releases of the software, other list
contributors can confirm or not this situation.
If however you want to multi track record, then probably up for
consideration must be the Reaper multi track recorder; This is where
there are say a drum track, then a bass track, keyboard track, main vocal
track and say 3 harmony vocals. So you can then play and edit each of
these 7 audio source tracks till you have what you want, then mix them
together, and save the project down to an audio file format.
Reaper is not free, but I think the rae pluggin for better access is.
This is also a considerable learning curve, so be prepared to listen to
pod casts, and read the manual.
Going back to goldwave, the manual is brilliant. In .html format,
navigation and searching and locating results is a breeze when you
understand your web browser and how to use the screen reader for
navigating .html documents.
Audacity is free I think, I don't have much experience of this though.
sorry this is a little sketchey.
Just some thoughts for you, and good luck.
Joe Paton
APART Consultancy Limited,
tel.: 0044 1702 543 624.
http://www.apart.org
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At 13:52 03/07/2011, you wrote:
Hello Listers,
I am very new at using audio programs. So will someone please tell me the
difference between Totle Recorder and GoldWave? For example: can either of
these programs be used for taking dictation? I will be needing to do that
in
the near future.
Please, if you can just tell me what each program main features are, I
would
greatly appreciate that.
Tnanks!
Carliss
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