Finding A Music Editing Program

Can some of you guys recommend me great music editing programs, regardless of price? im looking for a program that can: edit music, work wit mp3 and wav among other formats, amplify it, add special effects to it, add stuff from other songs to one song, cut off parts of the song you dont like, filter out bad hisses and unwanted noise, all that stuff.

I looked at cool edit pro and am consider buying it. but then i heard about sonicfoundry and their site confused me. they have a program called acid. well can you guys recommend me wut you think is the ABSOLUTE BEST program for music editing?

oh ya, how do i know if an mp3 file i dl off the net is corrupted or has bad frames? can music editing programs determine this and can they fix it? is there a way to fix it?

thank you

I have cool edit pro. its the best.

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Originally posted by FlynMonkeez
I have cool edit pro. its the best.

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I heard adobe bought them out.

Cool Edit Pro is great but it's basically just a WAV editor. You need to be more specific about what you're trying to do. If you're looking to create your own music and not just cutting up bits of other files, you'll need something else. If you're going to be working mostly with loops or clips of other songs, take a look at Acid Pro. If you're looking for something a little more involved, check out Fruity Studio. Both of those are considered to be for more of the "hobbiest musician" but there are plenty of people producing pro-quality tunes with them.

If you need something even more advanced (ie. pro music creation) let me know and I'll comment further.

And, BTW, I'd strongly recommend you "try" before you "buy" when it comes to music software. Most of the stuff is more expensive than it needs to be. ;)

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Originally posted by messiahfan2003
I heard adobe bought them out.

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YUP ITS TRUE

and I DONT wanna create music so that kinda narrows it down. all i really need is a music editor. all im gonna do is take unwanted parts of the song out or mix it with other songs. i also wanna be able to take an instrumental file and an acappella file and mix them together if possible. i also wanna be able to filter out hisses and crackle noises. and i also wanna know how to fix bad frames from and mp3. if you guys know how then please tell me.

theres so many acid versions, i dunno wut to pick anymore. and i dunno wut the new name is cool edit pro is. their site confused me also. damn sites LOL. thank you

edit: can you please tell me more about looping and wut it is because im not familiar wit it. wut can you do with it? thank you

COOOL EDIT PRO will do what you neeed it to do, it is very cool and I learned the basics in like 10 minutes :)

Yeah... in that case, get Cool Edit Pro ... or Adobe Audition as it is now known.

http://www.adobe.com/products/audition/main.html