NGWave Review
NGWave - an excellently well organized application
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You can buy it at RegNow for that price.
Well organized, no need to spend minutes searching though menus for the option you want to find.
No unique features, old interface, might crash (but eventually recovers your work)
NGWave is a small and light audio-editing software. It has sufficient options to please the expert, yet they're easy enough to use and can make any novice happy. Easy to use crossfading, trimming, customizable echos and a nice equalizer are the features that NGWave is famous for.
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That said, NGWave is extremely easy to navigate through. Going through your audio file is a breeze and keyboard shortcuts are intuitive (the default for Windows), it's easy to select one Channel or both of them by maneuvering the mouse. There are sufficient options for zooming in on your audio waves and of editing them.
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What NGWave does best is arranging the toolbars and filling them with options so that everything is accessible without having to go through the many menus and submenus that other applications put you through. That really increases users' productivity and it reduces stress when having to deal with multiple tracks.
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Tabbed browsing is also something that other applications lack. If keeping things organized is your thing, then NGWave sure is good for you.
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Whereas I was impressed by the relative ease of use of the software, I encountered stability issues. Within 5 minutes of my testing the software it crashed upon performing an undo. It did, however, manage to recover the session exactly as it was at the moment of the crash. I later read their documentation and it states that recovery is only 'guaranteed' on NTFS systems, but not on Fat32.
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As for the user interface - it has everything well arranged, but the design of the buttons and the interface itself look oldish, Windows 98 - 2000 Style.
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And as much as I liked the way everything is organized, NGWave didn't really do anything that Audacity couldn't do (Audacity is a freeware sound editing application). I am even tempted to say that Audacity's automatic noise removal is better, although it offers substantially less user control than NGWave does.
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Also, the help file is pretty useful, as it explains mostly everything that you needed to know. It comes in 2 flavors: one for novices and one for experienced users.
If you need everything done quickly or a well-arranged user interface - use NGWave; but if going through menus/options is not a problem, then don't spend money on it.