#Cool edit pro 2.0 user guide how to#
#Cool edit pro 2.0 user guide drivers#
#Cool edit pro 2.0 user guide update#
#Cool edit pro 2.0 user guide manual#
#Cool edit pro 2.0 user guide software#

The Waveform Statistics feature conveys a wealth of information about the content of your audio.The new edition of CEP boasts a lot of new and substantially improved features compared with the original, and the graphical interface has been 'prettified' too.

#Cool edit pro 2.0 user guide drivers#

It uses standard Windows MME drivers and seems to run happily on pretty much any Windows-compatible stereo or multi-channel soundcard. Perhaps I should say at this point that Mac users should skip the rest of this article before becoming too disappointed and upset! CEP is only available for the PC and runs under any of the recent Windows operating systems: 98, 98SE, ME, 2000 and XP.

#Cool edit pro 2.0 user guide manual#

For those who like to collect colourful packaging, a full boxed version with CD and manual is also available (albeit at a higher cost), as are upgrades for registered users of the previous versions of CEP 1.x and Cool Edit 2000. If you like the look and feel of CEP 2.0 it can be purchased over the web, whereupon the restrictions are lifted and the files unlocked. This demo program works completely normally for 21 days with everything functioning as expected apart from a couple of audio file format import/export filters, which time out after a minute or so. Like its predecessors, CEP 2.0 is available on a 'try before you buy' basis, as an Internet download (a mere 19.3MB!).

#Cool edit pro 2.0 user guide software#

There has been extensive rebuilding of the workings, but pretty much all of the desirable characteristics of the original remain in place the impression is of a more mature, wide-ranging and very capable product, yet without the typically steep learning curve associated with audio editing software of this kind.

#Cool edit pro 2.0 user guide update#

The update incorporates much more than cosmetic tweaking and bug-fixing, but the basic structure remains unaltered in concept, with a stereo editing window and a multitrack window for compiling complex material. The latest incarnation is version 2.0, a serious makeover of this popular program with dozens of new and enhanced features. The original Cool Edit Pro - CEP to its friends - was reviewed in SOS June '98. The program's widespread popularity is partly due to its remarkable ease of use, partly because of its comprehensive facilities, but especially because of its surprising affordability. Syntrillium's Cool Edit Pro editor has become a firm favourite of amateur sound recording enthusiasts and professional audio users alike, the world over. The new version offers more features, more power, and an updated user interface. It won't take my voice and guitar and turn it into Hoyt Axton Sings With Steely Dan, but it WILL allow me to get the combination to sound as good as possible.Cool Edit Pro v2's multitrack editing window, with its virtual mixer open in front.įrom its beginnings as shareware, Syntrillium's Cool Edit Pro has acquired an impressive professional user base. The truth is, that recording is a deep and complex activity, and, while a computer will do many things that you either can't do without one, or without a lot of expensive analog gear, it's still a box. CEP (and most of the other software I've seen) emulate tape recording for a lot of their functions, which means sometimes that if you can't use a tape deck it's not going to be any easier to use a computer.Ī lot of people sort of assume that, if it's a computer, it will do a lot of things for you, kind of like a graphics program that 'automatically' gets rid of red-eye in portraits. If you don't know what ins & outs ARE, or why sampling rates matter (or that they exist) then a book won't help.

#Cool edit pro 2.0 user guide how to#

One thing I have found with the books is that all of them assume you understand recording, music, and arranging, and that all you need is to know how to configure your ins & outs, sampling rates, etc.

The best way is to start at the beginning and teach yourself. I have one, and it was useful, but you will always find yourself wanting to do something that the writer didn't think of. I see copies every so often (since there's no longer a Cool Edit Pro, I guess they haven't bothered to reprint it).

There are a couple of books out, including Audio Editing With Cool Edit Pro by Robert Riley.