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Cyclone103 · 2008-06-05 13:21:52

This is a wavepad tutorial. Wavepad can be used to crop, edit, and do many other things with sound. Here are download links:

For Mac users:
http://www.nch.com.au/components/wavepadmac.zip

For Windows users:
http://www.nch.com.au/components/wpsetup.exe

Wavepad has many interesting features, some of which even I do not know how to use, so I will only explain what I know. To open and edit a sound file already on your computer, click on "Open an existing file" in the toolbar on the left. This toolbar, as well as the ones on the top and bottom of your screen, are what allow you to edit your sounds. If you have no sound file already on your computer, or you wish to record a new one, click "create a new file", right above the open an existing file button. Set your file size, larger numbers take up more space but the quality is better, smaller files take less space and have poor quality. Press ok. Make sure your mic is on, and press the record button. Record your sound, and press the stop button (black square). To be able to edit your recording, x out of that small window. It should now appear in the regular background of Wavepad. Now comes the fun part!

Editing your sounds:
To play your sound, press the play button on the bottom toolbar. The rest of the controls are obvious, except for "scrub". From what I see, it is basically a pause. Use the bar on the bottom right corner to control volume. To select a small portion of your sound, click and drag out the blue box, which comes from the yellow bar. To zoom in on your sound, click the magnifying glass with a + on it. to zoom out, click the one with a -. Now this is where it gets interesting. To change the volume of that one section, click the "amplify" button on the top toolbar. It looks like a sine wave. Type your volume in, and press ok. You can loop several songs together by pressing the "mix file" button (fourth from left) on the top, but I recommend inserting silence at that point. To insert silence, find the are you want to insert it by clicking, and press the button 5th from the left on the top toolbar. A good length would be 1-200. Then, add in your sound. If you want to be fancy, add a crossfade from the button close to the middle. You can find out what each button is by mousing over it. You can fade the beginning and end of your sound by pressing the corresponding buttons on the top, and you can even split your sound into 2 separate files. The equalizer is at the top of the screen, and you can normalize, amplify, and remove background noise with the left toolbar, as well as cutting, copying, and pasting a selection.

That's basically it, I explained most features. 2 more features I recommend trying are the echo and reverb functions. The effects are quite interesting.....and the reverse feature is useful for playing sounds backwards (hint: try playing "I am the Walrus" by the Beatles backwards. You can actually hear the much talked-about message with your own ears!) Have fun, and tell me if this post helped you at all! Probably my longest post ever smile

Bluestribute · 2008-06-05 13:37:35

That is the coolest ever. I'm listening to Nun chuka kata right now backwards

Cyclone103 · 2008-06-05 13:38:25

Did it help you at all?

Bluestribute · 2008-06-05 13:41:18

Yes. Because lots of those buttons are confusing, and you explained them pretty good here, to where you get what they do (though from bein a guitar player, I knew about the echo and reverb). And I didn't know about the background noise remover (where it was. You already told me it had it, but not where).

Bluestribute · 2008-06-05 13:42:33

And I am telling my guitar teacher about this next week when I have my lesson.

Cyclone103 · 2008-06-05 14:11:34

Cool! The thing I like the most is the fact that such a useful program is entirely free smile

Bluestribute · 2008-06-05 14:18:28

Cyclone103 wrote:
Cool! The thing I like the most is the fact that such a useful program is entirely free

Here's the ones I know. There in order from favorite to least:

Sonar 7: lot's of money, at least $500.00
Sonar is my favorite because I use it at my lessons, and my guitar teacher has such a great setup

Wavepad: free
I like this because it has some interesting features, like reverse. It also has the some of the same features as Sonar 7

Garageband: free (at least for me)
This isn't the best for recording, but it comes with some awesome loops, and an easy-to-use interface.

Cyclone103 · 2008-06-05 14:21:58

lol I have never heard of those others!

Cyclone103 · 2008-06-06 22:14:48

One quick update: Wavepad is just a trial, which will last about a month. I forgot to mention that. The actual, regular non-trial software is available for sale though.

Bluestribute · 2008-06-06 22:18:55

Cyclone103 wrote:
One quick update: Wavepad is just a trial, which will last about a month. I forgot to mention that. The actual, regular non-trial software is available for sale though.

Now you tell me

dingdong · 2008-06-06 23:38:13

I use Audacity, it works fine, echo is one of the effects, but I also like whawha effect

Bluestribute · 2008-06-06 23:39:27

dingdong wrote:
I use Audacity, it works fine, echo is one of the effects, but I also like whawha effect

Garageband has those effects (I hate Garageband), but so does my bass amp, but my guitar amp only has distortion...

dingdong · 2008-06-07 00:30:08

garageband only allows you to create songs, and it's so hard to do that

Bluestribute · 2008-06-07 00:35:54

dingdong wrote:
garageband only allows you to create songs, and it's so hard to do that

Actually, you can import a song into 1 track

Sakani · 2008-06-07 01:04:26

go find jvc's paper mario back in time. Then download it and export the mario 64 remix LOL! file. then after that put it on wavepad in reverse. Then u can laugh at 14 seconds in.

Bluestribute · 2008-06-07 01:09:31

Sakani wrote:
go find jvc's paper mario back in time. Then download it and export the mario 64 remix LOL! file. then after that put it on wavepad in reverse. Then u can laugh at 14 seconds in.

What's it say? Like stairway to heaven backwards is talking about the devil, another bites the dust backwards is "it's fun to smoke marijuana"(I don't think on purpose) and a Mariah Carey song backwards reads something about woman (I saw it on Youtube)

Sakani · 2008-06-07 01:17:01

Bluestribute wrote:
Sakani wrote:
go find jvc's paper mario back in time. Then download it and export the mario 64 remix LOL! file. then after that put it on wavepad in reverse. Then u can laugh at 14 seconds in.
What's it say? Like stairway to heaven backwards is talking about the devil, another bites the dust backwards is "it's fun to smoke marijuana"(I don't think on purpose) and a Mariah Carey song backwards reads something about woman (I saw it on Youtube)

when he says mama mia backwards its hilarious

Cyclone103 · 2008-06-07 11:03:15

The beatles song when played backwards is "paul is a dead man miss him miss him miss him" it is REALLY creepy smile

Cyclone103 · 2008-06-07 11:04:16

Bluestribute wrote:
Cyclone103 wrote:
One quick update: Wavepad is just a trial, which will last about a month. I forgot to mention that. The actual, regular non-trial software is available for sale though.
Now you tell me

Sorry, but I just found out. Still, a month is a long period of time. Mine still has not expired!

FoxDur · 2009-05-22 20:03:38

Bluestribute wrote:
Sakani wrote:
go find jvc's paper mario back in time. Then download it and export the mario 64 remix LOL! file. then after that put it on wavepad in reverse. Then u can laugh at 14 seconds in.
What's it say? Like stairway to heaven backwards is talking about the devil, another bites the dust backwards is "it's fun to smoke marijuana"(I don't think on purpose) and a Mariah Carey song backwards reads something about woman (I saw it on Youtube)

All that stuff about how stairway to heaven is talking about the devil is just ridiculous.

coolstuff · 2009-05-22 20:25:43

FoxDur wrote:
Bluestribute wrote:
Sakani wrote:
go find jvc's paper mario back in time. Then download it and export the mario 64 remix LOL! file. then after that put it on wavepad in reverse. Then u can laugh at 14 seconds in.
What's it say? Like stairway to heaven backwards is talking about the devil, another bites the dust backwards is "it's fun to smoke marijuana"(I don't think on purpose) and a Mariah Carey song backwards reads something about woman (I saw it on Youtube)
All that stuff about how stairway to heaven is talking about the devil is just ridiculous.

Another old topic... Yikes!

ScratchX · 2009-05-22 20:35:27

coolstuff wrote:
FoxDur wrote:
Bluestribute wrote:

What's it say? Like stairway to heaven backwards is talking about the devil, another bites the dust backwards is "it's fun to smoke marijuana"(I don't think on purpose) and a Mariah Carey song backwards reads something about woman (I saw it on Youtube)
All that stuff about how stairway to heaven is talking about the devil is just ridiculous.
Another old topic... Yikes!

funny to say but YOUR the one brining back the dead topic too...and after this post i am the the resurector

coolstuff · 2009-05-22 20:38:36

ScratchX wrote:
coolstuff wrote:
FoxDur wrote:

All that stuff about how stairway to heaven is talking about the devil is just ridiculous.
Another old topic... Yikes!
funny to say but YOUR the one brining back the dead topic too...and after this post i am the the resurector

What? I can't be bringing it back since it was already here...

All4one · 2009-11-13 13:14:52

I'm not really allowed to download other programs that my parents don't know about, so can you make a project with I Am the Walrus played backwards please?

darkgamemaker · 2009-12-30 18:02:31

GUYS!!! I was listening to stairway to heaven backwards, using this, and I found out something really really scary, STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN HAS BAD MESSAGES BACKWARDS!!
I really freaked out, but dude, this program is genius! thanks for sharing it! smile

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