However, although these heavyweights are rightly popular, they are beyond the budgets of many musicians - the latest Sound Forge 7.0 is £349, whilst Wavelab 4.0 costs £390 and Audition £246. In the professional arena, three stereo audio editors have dominated the PC market: Sound Forge from Sonic Foundry (now Sony Media Software), Steinberg's Wavelab and Syntrillium's Cool Edit Pro (now Adobe Audition). If the established professional applications are out of your price league, Acon Digital Media's highly affordable stereo editor might be a real alternative.

Transfer, an AAX plug-in that makes audio transfers between Pro Tools and Acoustica a breeze.Acoustica's interface is elegant and easy to use, and offers a surprising number of high-quality audio treatments.

DeBuzz:Dialogue automatically reduces buzz and hum noises such as neon light buzz, AC power hum, RF transmission interference from dialogue recordings.

DeRustle:Dialogue automatically reduces clothing rustle and microphone bump noise from lavalier recordings.

DeWind:Dialogue automatically reduces wind noise from dialogue.

Extract:Dialogue automatically reduces background noise in dialogue recordings.

Restoration Suite 2 with four plug-ins for audio restoration: DeNoise 2, DeHum 2, DeClick 2 and DeClip 2.

Verberate 2, our renowned natural sounding reverb plug-in.

Mastering Suite consisting of Equalize 2, Dynamics, Multiband Dynamics, Limit and Dither.

With the Premium Edition, you can also use these in other host applications supporting VST, VST3, AAX or Audio Units (Mac only): A large collection of plug-ins are included and seamlessly integrated into the application. The Premium Edition adds advanced features such as spectral editing with powerful retouch algorithms and multi-channel support up to 7.1 surround. You can also create multitrack sessions where you can import or record audio clips to separate tracks that you can mix and process. Both include a powerful and sample accurate clip editor that lets you navigate and edit single track audio with pristine quality. The application is available in a Premium Edition and a lower cost Standard Edition.

Acoustica 7 is the perfect solution for audio editing, podcast creation, mastering and audio restoration on both Mac and PC.

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