Wouldn't you rather use the latest and greatest Broadcast 2000 editor? This page is for historical reasons only. Hard to believe it's already 3 years since Broadcast 2.1 came out.
This program is a lightspeed fast, FREE, 16 bit hard disk recorder, first and foremost for poor people like musicians, students, and students to edit large audio files, prepare mixes for CD recording and mp3 encoding, or record radio dramas. It might even be useful for students.
Download Broadcast 2.1 here.
Get instructions on how to use it here
You must have access to a Linux box or UNIX box with the OSS sound driver to even compile this.
Broadcast 2.1 supports the following features:
transparent, non destructive editing
sliding in/out points
unlimited tracks
full duplex recording
automated fade, pan, polarity reverse, and mute
3 band parametric eq/bandpass filter
console module grouping with unlimited groups possible
fast wave displays
cue point labeling during record, playback, and editing
realtime console adjustments
variable output channels
playback looping
hard muting, crossfade, normalize, balance, direction reverse, and concert hall reverb
playback to an audio device or disk
vertical zoom, horizontal zoom, track zoom, and selection zoom
direct cd to hard drive transfer
db adjustments
multiple level undo
All these features come with catches.
The audio processing is done in 16 bit integers, producing marginal sound quality.
There are many bugs.
It doesn't work with many soundcards or CD ROM drives.
Under Linux 2.0.x it required either a modification to the OSS Free sound driver or an alternate sound driver. Functionality under the commercial OSS driver was unpredictable.
Today Linux 2.2.x is standard and you're on your own as regards to its sound driver.
Broadcast 2.1 is no longer being hacked or even used by its author, mainly because he's been unemployed since 1997. Don't set your heart out on a programming career. Get straight A's in a formal hardware oriented degree and you might have a chance. The source code in Broadcast 2.1 is pretty horrible anyway.
Today the latest and greatest audio editing can be gotten from Broadcast 2000 but not until the author finds a way to finance it.
Send freakouts to broadcast@earthling.net
Save yourself some clicking and check out the author's personal server. You're bound to find it anyway.
Links of interest to
the audio engineer
American Cinematographer
Society
Carrera computer
DV Magazine
Digital Playroom
EQ Magazine
Mix Magazine
Softimage
Avid
MPEG
source code
Sox
SGI
programs
MPEG Layer 3 software
MP3