editing out background noise

i recently purchased music creator 2. i am a musician however i purchased this program to manage audio recordings from a micro cassette tape. i've got the data (~3hours worth) transferred to music creator on 1 track. is there any way to edit out the background noise from my recorded conversations? i.e. tape noise, other people talking etc. thanks for any help.

Audacity is a good choice for fre, it can take a snap shot of the back ground noise, by enlarging the wave file and finding a place between the recorded material where just background noise exist then just follow the help menu's information on noise removal.

People talking is going to be a problem, since it is a different kind of issue, if the talking happens between other sounds then you can highlight and cut it out, but if it happens during the other recorded materialthen imagine baking a cake and then wanting to remove the eggs after it is done.

Auducity is a wave file editor, what format is the data? you need to export it from cakewalk as a wave file

Blow up the wave file until you can see the spaces between the recorded sounds that are background noise only and do a noise removal procedure (go to help and get the details).