NGWave Review

NGWave is a pretty interesting program that you can use to edit audio files. The interface is very clean and intuitive and I loved the quick-start guide.

Unlike other audio editing programs, I could use NGWave out of the box, without having to read anything but parts of the startup guide. The files can be edited in a splitted graph area (top part for the left channel and the bottom for the right one). The interface looks surprisingly close to the Audacity one (the open source editor) and the features are close between these two (except that Audacity is free and can export to different formats via the popular LAME encoder).

The toolbar under the menu contains nice effects like fade (in or out), distortions, equalizer, filters, echo, etc. and their position makes them fairly easy to access. The playback controls are at the bottom and so are some of the view options (channel zoom and locking).

The whole program seems to be based on the MCI API commands that are integrated in Windows(tm), but the programs makes good use of them and the sound quality is very good. It also features a nice metronome, a mixer, LED VU, sound recorder and most important of all you'll never lose your work in case of a crash since it has session restoring abilities.

About the price, it seems reasonable, but I still am not convinced to buy it since I can do exactly the same things in Audacity (wich is open source and multi-platform).

But if you need good support, stability and eye-candy, give this program a shot.