GoldWave

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Digital audio editor and recording application

title: "GoldWave" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["audio-editors", "shareware", "windows-multimedia-software", "1993-software", "software-companies-of-canada"] description: "Digital audio editor and recording application" topic_path: "technology/operating-systems" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoldWave" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Digital audio editor and recording application ::

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Field	Value
name	GoldWave
logo	GoldWave Inc logo.png
screenshot
caption
author	Chris Craig (GoldWave 1.0)
developer	GoldWave Inc.
released
latest release version	7.02
latest release date
operating system	GoldWave: Microsoft Windows, iOS 11.0 (up to 1.0.40), Android 6.0 (up to 1.0.36 (2020-07-31 build)), Mac OS 11.0 with Apple M1-compatible processor
GoldWave Infinity: web-based (supports Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Android, iOS)
genre	Digital audio editor
license	Shareware
website
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GoldWave is a commercial digital audio editing software product developed by GoldWave Inc, first released to the public in April 1993.

Goldwave product lines

GoldWave: Audio editor for Microsoft Windows, iOS, Android. iOS version runs on Mac OS 11 with Apple M1-compatible processor.
GoldWave Infinity: Web browser-based audio editor that also supports Linux, Mac OS X, Android, iOS.

Features

GoldWave has an array of features bundled which define the program. They include:

Real-time graphic visuals, such as bar, waveform, spectrogram, spectrum, and VU meter.
Basic and advanced effects and filters such as noise reduction, compressor/expander, volume shaping, volume matcher, pitch, reverb, resampling, and parametric EQ.
Effect previewing
Saving and restoring effect presets
DirectX Audio plug-in support
A variety of audio file formats are supported, including WAV, MP3, Windows Media Audio, Ogg, FLAC, AIFF, AU, Monkey's Audio, VOX, mat, snd, and voc
Batch processing and conversion support for converting a set of files to a different format and applying effects
Multiple undo levels
Edit multiple files at once
Support for editing large files
Storage option available to use RAM

GoldWave

Supported versions and compatibility

Windows

A version prior to the version 5 series still exists for download of its shareware version at the official website.

Versions up to 3.03 are 16-bit applications and cannot run in 64-bit versions of Windows).

All versions up to 4.26 can run on any 32-bit Windows operating system.

Starting with version 5, the minimum supported operating system is changed to Windows ME. However, the requirements listed in the software package's HTML documentation was not updated.

Starting with version 5.03, minimum hardware requirements were increased to Pentium III of 700 (500 in FAQ)MHz and DirectX 8 are now part of the minimum system requirements compared to the Pentium II of 300 MHz and DirectX 5 required by previous versions.

Windows ME are supported up to 5.25. Windows 98 works, but not officially supported. The 5.09 announcement claimed Windows 98 does not work starting in 2005-01-29 (previously claimed unsupported as late as 2 days earlier), but the feature was restored in 5.10.

Beginning with 5.51, Windows 98 and ME are not supported.

Beginning with 6.00, minimum supported operating system is Windows 7 64-bit.

Linux

Prior to GoldWave Infinity, GoldWave version 5 was supported via a Wine compatibility layer.

Android

Original test version was announced in 2019-07-30.

The last release of GoldWave was 1.0.36, which is also the first production version, then it was replaced by GoldWave Infinity.

iOS

Original test version was announced in 2019-10-09.

The last version announced in publisher's web site was 1.0.39, which is also the first production version. The last released version was 1.0.40, then it was replaced by GoldWave Infinity.

Reception

GoldWave was used to analyze historic recordings from the Moon landing, including establishing the "missing word" from astronaut Neil Armstrong's famous line.
Adam Young (aka Owl City) used GoldWave to record all his vocals on his first major label album Ocean Eyes.
The videogame Megaman X 4 features English audio recorded using GoldWave.
The videogame Half-Life uses audio edited with GoldWave (most notably the Black Mesa Announcement System known as VOX, the HECU voices, most of the sound effects and a few voicelines).
The 2010 album Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1 by American musician Daniel Lopatin is composed of collages of slowed-down looped samples of songs of the 1980s and 1990s; many of them were initially created at his office job in GoldWave.

References

"GLDWAV10.ZIP - GoldWave: Sound player/editor for Windows 3.1".
[https://goldwave.ca/forums2/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6080 GoldWave v7.02 Released]
"GoldWave now available on Android and iOS".
[https://web.archive.org/web/20030215173435/http://goldwave.com/gwave501.exe See GoldWave.htm in GoldWave Version 5.01]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20030608215112/http://www.goldwave.com/faq.html GoldWave Frequently Asked Questions (2003-06-08)]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20030402054736/http://goldwave.com/v5beta.html GoldWave Version 5 Beta Download (5.03)]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20050125021831/http://www.goldwave.com/release.php GoldWave Version 5 Download (2005-01-25)]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20050127030929/http://www.goldwave.com/release.php GoldWave Version 5 Download (2005-01-27)]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20050129051154/http://www.goldwave.com/release.php GoldWave Version 5 Download (2005-01-29)]
"GoldWave v5.10 Released".
[http://www.goldwave.ca/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2940 GoldWave v5.51 Released]
[http://goldwave.ca/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4444 GoldWave v6.00 Beta Released]
[http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=640 GoldWave]
"GoldWave for Android".
"GoldWave for Android v1.0.36 Released!".
"GoldWave for iOS".
"GoldWave for iOS v1.0.39 Released!".
Carreau, Mark. (September 30, 2006). "Hear what Neil Armstrong really said on the moon". Houston Chronicle.
(October 2, 2006). "Armstrong 'got Moon quote right'". BBC News.
Kates, Kristi. (December 1, 2009). "Adam Young Pro/File: Going Underground". EM Profiles.
(August 1, 1997). "Megaman X 4".
Reynolds, Simon. (June 2011). "Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past". [[Faber and Faber Ltd]].

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