wavelab''s gui has too much eyecandy, and selecting is VERY slow looking (when you select audio via mouse it looks like 15fps) even on a 2.5ghz with a gf4 or matrox 550 so it must be the prog.
I do hear it has faster processing, But I really hate that prog with a passion. I didnt notice much diff between wavlab and sf proc times.

Cooledit, is a decent prog simular to Vegas.
I still prefer vegas for all my multitracking/mixing tho.

>>wavelab''s gui has too much eyecandy, and selecting is VERY slow looking (when you select audio via mouse it looks like 15fps)>>

hmm, have you enabled "do not gradient backgrounds" ? (option/pref./display)

I like SF, but I realy hate the plugin-chainer ( you can only see a single plugin - in wavelab 4.0 its much more comfortable.

In case any one is interested I''ve developed some software that I use for my SFX. The new version (2.00+) that I use professionally to create SFX is not available but the older (and inferior but still usable) is fine, and I used it to make the sfx for several of my older games.

It''s called Noise Station and was desigend as music sequencer software, but as a synth too works fine for SFX. The trial version works 100% if all you want to do is synthesize (the only limit is 4 music tracks which isn''t relevant to synthesizing).

Get it from http://www.cornutopia.net

Oh, if anyone is interested in my sound effects they''re on http://www.indiesfx.co.uk

Mark