In 2002, Cool Edit Pro 2.0 was released,
with a lower price tag ($249 dollars if you buy it online, $79 dollar upgrade)
and a few interesting new features (gathered from
syntrillium.com, several reviews, and my own experience):
- A much more polished, customizable UI, including dual monitor support
- Built-in MP3 support (previously a plugin)
- CD Ripping capability
- Downloadable CD burning plugin
- Real-time effects, which can be applied to a track in the multitrack window (rather than just a
waveform individually
- New effects like the Quickverb (reverb) or the Doppler Shift, Dynamic EQ and Delay, etc.
- A "bus" system allowing you to group several tracks in the multitrack
- An improved loop manager
- Introduction of the Red Rover - a USB device that lets you control Cool Edit remotely
- Video (AVI only, as far as I know) support, allowing you to place a video inside
the multitrack view and edit your audio around it.
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The old easter egg in Cool Edit Pro 1.x(dragging the flower in the About... window to the smallest
circle and pressing "OK" would trigger a game of Pong) is gone, replaced by another About dialog
Easter Egg: you can click on the two metal balls in the Syntrillium logo and bounce them around,
and right click to add pinball-style stoppers. Not as fun as Pong, but then again not much is.
Cool Edit Pro remains one of the most affordable and complete digital audio solutions for Windows and a nice, relatively low cost Pro Tools alternative.
- Syntrillium Software: http://www.syntrillium.com/
- http://www.etcetera.co.uk/products/SYN002.shtml
- http://www.radioworld.com/reference-room/product_evaluation/06_rw_pe_CoolEditProRev_1.shtml