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"Digital Audio Editor" 

Cool Edit 96 is a digital audio editor that, as the name implies, has been around for a while. You can use it to record and play files in a wide variety of audio formats, edit files, mix them together and convert files from one format to another. 

Especially the great batch convertion features are vey useful to users who want a quick way to convert all their samples
to 44.1 kHz / 16 bit / mono / RAW files for use with
the Userbank Creator. 

But Cool Edit is much more than just an editor, recorder,
and player:  it's like a complete recording studio inside your computer. You can work on multiple files simultaneously with the New Instance feature. You can create sounds from scratch with Generate Tones, Generate Noise, and Generate DTMF Signals. You can "touch up" your audio with features like FFT Filter, Quick Filter, Amplify, Compress, Envelope, Stretch, Channel Mixer and Noise Reduction. You can add effects to files like Reverb, Delay, Echo, 3D Echo Chamber, Flanging and Distortion. You can even adjust the pitch or tempo of your audio with the Stretch function. When you find just the effect you want, you can save it as a Preset for later recall. 

Cool Edit also offers powerful data analysis features. The Spectral View gives you a multi-color map of the sounds in your files. You can generate a Frequency Analysis to see which frequencies predominate at a point or in a region of your waveform. The Statistics feature gives you information on peak amplitude, minimum and maximum RMS power levels, and more. 

Unlike the other programs offered on this site, Cool Edit 96 was originally  released as shareware, not freeware. You can still use all of Cool Edit's features, but not in the same session. 

When you start the program, you get to select which two features you want to use from the list below:
  Save, External Clipboard Functionality and Sample Converting 
  CD player controls 
  Stretch, PCM Music Generator and DTMF (telephone) Tones 
  Filter and Noise Reduction 
  Amplify, Envelope, Channel mixer and Normalise 
  Flanger, Delay and Compressor 
  Echo, Echo Chamber and Reverb 
  Distortion, Quick Filter and Reverse 
So, if you chose "Save" and "Flanger, Delay & Compressor", 
you'll have to save your work and restart Cool Edit before you can add Echo effects. However, since the Cool Edit software series has been discontinued and this program is no longer supported or commercially available,
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