Software: Applications/Audio Environments/Tools

[mobilegazer]

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http://www.prosoniq.com
sonicworx...THE soundeditor, now discontinued and freeware

http://www.uisoftware.com
home of the unbelievably cool Metasynth and other apps

http://www.cycling74.com
max/msp can do just about anything

http://www.audiofile-engineering.com
samplemanager and the totally cool wave editor live here

http://www.soundhack.com
tom erbe's excellent pieces of software

http://www.nativeinstruments.de
Reaktor again...

http://www.i3net.it/Products/dspQuattro
sample-editor that can host virtual instruments

http://www.audacity.sourceforge.net
open source sample-editor

http://www.plogue.com
bidule and a couple of plugins

http://www.icedaudio.com
audiofinder is a cool tool for managing and batch-processing samples

http://www.bernsee.com
http://www.dspdimension.com
tons of DSP related stuff

http://www.osxtools.com
MacOS X related tools, including some Neuron tools

[mobilegazer]

CDP
Sound transformation toolbox, mainly offline-process based.

[mobilegazer]

CPS
an audio programming environment, based on mpeg-4

Cecilia
graphic front-end for csound

PD
graphic audio programming environment by the creator of max/msp
more PD

OSW
graphic audio programming environment

[mobilegazer]

TwistedWave
Audio editor with cool features like Ambisonic decoding, multichannel editing, SoundMiner MetaData editing, batch processing.

http://www.soundminer.com/SM_Site/Home.html
SoundMiner, the de-facto standard for audio asset management.

[neuronaut]

Second that - TwistedWave is a great app (and comes with DIRAC time stretching, too)!!

Cheers
Stephan