X-WaveSurfer

The Internet is filled with all sort of applications and programs that you could use in order to manage your files easily. One of them is X-WaveSurfer.

It's a portable version of WaveSurfer, an Open Source software for sound visualization and manipulation, designed to suit both novice and advanced users. It's packed with lots of nice features and tools all neatly arranged in an intuitive graphical interface. Sleek and lightweight user interface

The application doesn't take long to install and it doesn't come with a complicated setup that you would need to complete before you can actually use it. It sports a clean and intuitive graphical interface with many nice tools and features.

X-WaveSurfer is a nice portable version of WaveSurfer, an Open Source software for sound visualization and manipulation, designed to suit both novice and advanced users.

The basic document you work with is a sound. When WaveSurfer is first started, it contains an empty sound. You can load a sound file from disk or start recording, using the tape-recorder like controls in the upper right corner. You can add any number of sounds.

Each sound has a small arrow-shaped button in the upper left corner, that can be used to collapse the view of the sound into only a blue titlebar. Right-clicking on the different parts of the interface brings up a popup menu with choices that are applicable to that part.

Use the tape recorder controls to play and record audio. If a current selection exists only that segment is played. You can use the space bar to toggle between play and pause. For more sophisticated tasks, a single waveform view of the whole sound might not be sufficient.

You might want to zoom in to look at small portions, you might want other representations such as spectrograms or pitch-curves, or maybe you have a multi-channel sound and want to look at each channel individually.

X-WaveSurfer is a nice portable version of WaveSurfer, an Open Source software for sound visualization and manipulation, designed to suit both novice and advanced users.