Be Your Own DJ - Digital Audio Processing Tools Overview

SoundEdit Pro
http://www.deprice.com/soundeditpro.htm

SoundEdit Pro is a digital audio editor for a user-friendly price. It's the perfect program for home studio recording and for people who are just getting started with audio editing. SoundEdit Pro provides an intuitive, easy-to-use interface and is designed for the everyday user. It has dozens of amazing audio effects and tools for converting audio files into different formats, including MP3, WMA, WAV, Ogg Vorbis and many others. It even includes the possibility to directly load audio tracks! And that's just the beginning of what you can do with SoundEdit Pro.

Audio Record Wizard 3
http://www.deprice.com/audiorecordwizard.htm

This sound recorder program is designed to work directly with your sound card, so can record almost all audio from your sound card at near-perfect quality. You can record sound from a microphone, line-in, and just about any other programs (such as winamp, realplay, windows media player and others). Direct to disk feature allows you to record sound without running out of memory. Audio Record Wizard can also record directly to the mp3 format if you choose, saving you valuable disk space. You can select the different mp3 recording modes as required.

AudioStreamer
http://www.deprice.com/audiostreamer.htm

AudioStreamer is the Internet radio receiver and recorder that lets you enjoy the thousands of radio stations available on the Internet. While listening to your favorite radio station, you can record any radio station you want, anytime! Browse through the radio stations, selecting a genre and the preferred bandwidth, and enjoy Internet radio! This Internet radio receiver also lets you search for stations by keywords, like 'top 40'! All radio recordings can be saved as individual tracks, and AudioStreamer automatically adds the correct MP3 tag to the recording.

Cool MP3 Splitter
http://www.deprice.com/coolmp3splitter.htm

There are three methods which you can employ to split your tracks - split by section, split by time and split by size. Whichever you choose to use, you should find it very useful for creating audio CDs from your collection, and you can break up live songs from a recording of a concert you may have into individual tracks. What's more, the Multi-Thread split technology that the splitter employs ensures that you can achieve the highest possible performance.

EZ-DJ Plus
http://www.deprice.com/ezdjplus.htm

Anyone can mix music like a pro with EZ-DJ Plus. EZ-DJ Plus is a revolutionary program that lets anyone mix high quality DJ sets from MP3s, and have fun doing it! Use the beat-matched DJ Sets provided or import and mix your own MP3 music files. EZ-DJ Plus lets music lovers focus on the fun parts of mixing like scratching, cuts, fades, tricks, and other cool effects.

Former DJ John Deprice shares his secrets of professional music mastering at http://www.deprice.com/audio.htm

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