with JAWS, very accessible.
It's not exactly a sound editor specifically.
Audacity is a freeware multi-track recorder and audio editer.
you can record and edit a nearly limitless number of tracks at once.
It has some decent onboard FX, and it a dream to use with jaws, even easier 
then gold wave.
There are scripts for it somewhere, but I didn't find the need for them.
there is a great tutorial written up for jaws users and audacity online 
somewhere, i'll try and find it and post the link to the group.
it goes through jaws specific commands and hotkeys built into audacity to 
make life a little easier.
I use it to record live gigs and edit multi-track music recordings.
It's no pro tools or even sonar, but for free it most certainly gets the job 
done and doesn't require a degree in computer science and engineer 
psychology to figure out how to record, edit and use it.
73
Colin, V A6BKX
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Dresser" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: sound editors


>
> Buddy,
>
> How accessible is Audacity?
>
> Steve
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Buddy Brannan" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 11:32
> Subject: Re: sound editors
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>
>> CoolEdit is not freeware, but Audacity is.
>>
>> I think it's on Sourceforge:
>> http://audacity.sourceforge.net
>> On Dec 15, 2008, at 11:03 AM, Bob Sikkila wrote:
>>
>>> hi all, does any one know of a freeware sound editor out there? I
>>> have heard
>>> of "cool edit". is that freeware?
>>>
>>> Bob K8MXC
>>
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