cheapie/freeware sample loop software for winxp?

That's complete and utter bullshit. I've made a living for the last 6 years selling music software & hardware. More than half of our clients our hobbyists, many of whom are sick of the instability & dodginess of warez. You can spend half your life looking for a crack that may or may not crash your computer, freeze up your DAW, and cause compatibility fuckups with your other plug-ins, or you can just buy the fucking official version, knowing that it will work!

And yes all warez is dodgy and unstable, just keep telling everyone that.

There's some truth in this, but I've known just as many unsigned, independent musicans who do, in fact, save their pennies & get a legit program to start.

And yes all warez is dodgy and unstable, just keep telling everyone that.

It may seem like I'm towing the company line here, but I've lost count of the times I've been hired to troubleshoot someone's PC because "dude, nothing works", only to find that every app is a crack: DAWs take ages to load, plug-ins glitch out or even crash the host, and the whole OS feels like it's about to lock up any second. The biggest problem of all with warez is that they're like potato chips - most people can't eat just one, so when they download an app, & it kinda works, they go apeshit & grab as many free programs as they can. That's when I get panic calls.

kinda depends on the attitudes and stuff.

audacity rules. goldwave can be really good. kristal is also decent. (it's at very least as good as ACID and some of those lower end general consumer packages.)

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Does anyone know of a good mp3 to wav batch conversion program, so I can convert all my loops in mp3 format into wave so Reaktor can see them? I've tried googling and all that, but a) all the results want me to buy something and b) they're probably all full of spyware.

Alternatively, I don't suppose anyone here uses Reaktor and knows if it does infact support mp3 files? That'd be ideal.

The Reaktor question still stands though, as this would be brilliant.

So, my new computer came with Windows 10, and so far the only software casualty is my dear, beloved old copy of CoolEdit 96, which does load in Win10, but is just glitchy AF - doesn't think I have enough RAM to save "Undo," and yet sometimes undoes OLD actions after I've done something else to the files... etc. So, I guess it's time I looked around for something else, ideally as similar as possible to the CE96 interface/tool as possible. MAINLY I use it for trimming down loops to just-so, and some occasional normalizing and basic effects. Is there anything out there with anything of that old-school, bells-and-whistles-free software style?

you might be able to run cooledit96 under a virtual machine with an older version of windows. I think virtualbox is free?

Wavosaur is pretty basic but still supports VST effects.

Audacity

Thanks, y'all. Just downloaded Wavosaur and feeling good about it, seems super low-impact. Doesn't even install anything! My kind of software.