As others have said, Help is a good place to start. You can use it like your tradition DAW, I assume you have some previous experience with DAWs....
MP3 Surround and HD AAC encoding are useless because not much can decode them yet. There was also an earlier issue of the Warezed...
Meldaproduction also has some p.good tutorials http://www.meldaproduction.com/audiotutorials/
Try QuikQuak Pitchwheel or Zplane Elastique. Those are VSTs that allow independant pitch and formant control. The Cubase one might be able to hold...
Meldaproduction has some modulation plugins. MAutopan, MVibrato, Mtremoto, MRingModulator.
You could put a delay on it like sheppi free spatial enhancer (based on Bob Katz's haas delay), but I don't like the sound of it. What I prefer...
Izotop Ozone 5's EQ also has a brickwall/slope/resonant HP & LP filters.
Audacity, Adobe Audition 3&4, and many other apps also have spectral views. Nothing special. A3 allows you to cutomize the colours displayed....
That looks like NI Traktor. That's a DJ app. Serato Scratch had that feature before. That's also a DJ app. What's your intent of having...
Some sort of sidechaining-triggered effect maybe ?
Voxengo Transgainer (VST). Undoes the horrible dynamics compression that people put on so much these days.
I think you mean "I want to apply dynamics compression" as opposed to equalize. In Audacity, try the hard limiter plugin. That just chops the...
I don't usually have unprocessed vocals to deal with. Izotope nectar is apparently good. I have used GGate before. it is free. I have also used...
Waves has a selection of surround plugins which I thought were alright. If i could make PS1 stereo maker to work that would be nice. But as I...
Reaper is nice - for stereo. Not so much for surround, the surround capabilities seem like an afterthought. Audition has your surround DAW...
Sony ACID also supports surround. Again, I haven't used it.
I edited my post above with more pros & cons of Audition & Reaper after you posted. I'm suggesting Audition for now. EDIT: The stereo panner in...
Cubase/Nuendo, and Pro Tools iirc, have hardware protection, so I haven't tried them. As said above Logic should be good if you if you don't mind...
Yep, Audition is pretty good. It's my DAW but I occasionally use it to edit audio. Very handy switching back & forth. Wavelab I only use because...
If you have dBpoweramp installed, it allows you to select multiple files and get the average bitrate in a explorer: properties tab. Not quite...
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