Stan, since you're not familiar with this stuff, reread what Scott wrote about non-destructive editing. That is really a big deal if you're doing a lot of it. I've also worked with Adobe Audition for years and become quite good at finding those crossfade loop points to eliminate pops. What Scott is talking about is the difference between actually cutting out part of the waveform and simply lowering the volume to silence the part you don't want to hear in a non-destructive way. Doing the volume thing eliminates any possibility of pop noises but is a bear to do manually. Traction does it automatically and that is very cool. Audition creates a new backup file after every edit and when I go to close it I have to wait while it goes through a very elobarate "flushing un-needed files" dance and I have to think about each one. If I really want to save the edit then the original version is gone unless I specifically save it. That can take 30 minutes or more. I don't know how Reaper handles that. Traction is or was very affordable because they had a $19.95 sale going on a few months ago. Full list price for it was $299 I think but it's almost an orphan program now so it's probably available somewhere as a close out for low cost. Scott is our resident expert with that program and there's a few other threads talking about it, just do a forum search using the keyword "Traction".

Bob

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