Audio (WAV) editor for use as a Utility with Sonar Platinum?

Morning all -
 
I was wondering if anyone had a recommendation for a decent (but affordable; just a hobbyist here ...) WAV editor that could be added to the Utilities menu and used inside of Sonar Platinum, running on a Windows 8.1 machine?
 
I tried Adobe Audition 3.0 - which has some nice features, and a GREAT price  - and while it can be added to the Utilities menu, I never could get it to actually launch inside of Sonar.
 
Thanks!
 
RR

A great free audio editor which works well is Audacity. It also has a great set of plugins that have been developed for it. Also free.

When you're ready to add it to Sonar's tools menu go here for SonarToolsEditor to do it properly.

Http://Forum.Cakewalk.com/Findpost/3238243

The idiots at Sony has never heard of 64bit, so even the latest and greatest Soundforge 11 won't link with Sonar, Unbelievable, and not a cheap program either...

Thanks guys -
Got Audition 3.0 working fine.
 
The key seems to have been making sure Sonar & Audition were both set to run as Administrator.
 
Appreciate the help!
 
 
 
 

Goldwave.

Brilliant, on the utility menu, now 64bit

Cheers,
Jerry

It does not matter where you put the SONARToolsEditor.exe. I put it in the Cakewalk "Shared Utilities" folder. If you set "Update Registry" to yes, a button is added to the SONARToolsEditor UI to add SONARToolsEditor to SONAR. It fills out all the fields based on where ever the SONARToolsEditor.exe was run. It is not necessary to add this tool to the Utilities menu.
 
When it comes to Audacity, use the browse button to the right of the "Exe Path" and navigate to the audacity exe. The menu text could be anything but I would suggest "Audacity". Adding an ampersand in front of a letter makes that the accelerator key. For example "&Audacity" would bind ALT+U+A to launch Audacity. ALT+U is predefined to open the Utilities menu.

LJB
the latest and greatest Soundforge 11 won't link with Sonar,

That does not seem right. Version 9 and 10 work fine with SONAR. I am pretty sure I have helped users of SF11 fix up the registry entry for SONAR. The tool I recently wrote might help. It does not matter that SF is a 32bit application, at least when communicating with 64bit SONAR.

LJB
The idiots at Sony has never heard of 64bit, so even the latest and greatest Soundforge 11 won't link with Sonar, Unbelievable, and not a cheap program either...

As much as i agree with Sony being slack about 64-bit. soundforge works within Sonar just fine.

LJB
The idiots at Sony has never heard of 64bit, so even the latest and greatest Soundforge 11 won't link with Sonar, Unbelievable, and not a cheap program either...

Completely incorrect. Sound Forge links perfectly well with Sonar x64. The programs don't actually connect. Sonar just creates a copy of the specified audio file, and sends an instruction for the editor to open (SF in this case) with that copy of the file loaded with any highlighted audio also highlighted in the editor.

It's like giving a virtual double click to that file copy and using the editor as the default program, so whether that program is 32 bit or 64 bit is irrelevant.
If you want to add this function into Sonar use scook's SonarToolsEditor utility. 100% works. Available (along with many other useful Utilties created by our members) via the link in my signature.

I have audacity loaded and didn't have to enter any arguments

Try it with a whole audio track. There maybe a clip format problem. That will tell you if that's the case

Let us know how you go.

Also what is greyed out?

Could Audacity be hiding behind Sonar's window?

Get this message

Usage: audacity.exe [/b <num>] [/h][/t][/v] [audio or project file name...]] then a few lines refering to b, h, t and v.

unknown option 'REGION'

Didn't realise you'd got an error message. Scooks right again. It's a similar issue as RX4 if Region Flag isn't set to No.

I have the same question about using Audacity ~
It will open from the Sonar menu with the selected audio just fine, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to save the edited audio back into Sonar - it seems Audacity just wants to export to a new file or save to a project on the hard drive.
 
Adobe Audition is seamless, and saves right back into Sonar.
 
Probably overkill, but it would be nice to be able to use both editors as desired - just because ...

I think the problem with Audition could be that it doesn't work natively with wav files. It uses a proprietary format and I'm not sure whether wavs are converted immediately when imported in which case the audio file would not be recognised by Sonar for the return.

I'll put it on my list of things to test.