Thanks all. I will give them a try and report back!

Using renoise is a good idea actually.. Can generate with synths and eq chop and export hmm hmm

Closest one to what Im looking for so far is twisted wave methinx.. 30 day trial here we go

Oh yeah! Renoise has a frigging great built in WAV editor. And if I remember right, or if they haven't changed the demo functionality, that capability isn't disabled in the demo.

I WAV edit in Audacity and EQ in Ableton.

Reaper unfortunately doesn't have a built in wav editor

I wav edit and mix with Adobe Audition. In past it was known as "cool edit pro"
It looks like cubase but is faster and easier (so it's ok on my shitty pc).

Not sure if it does everything you want, but for quick'n'dirty sampling / sample editing for use in Piggy tracker I really like using Wiretape Studio which has a really nice editing interface. http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/wiretap/

Fission is worth a look too. http://rogueamoeba.com/fission/

actually now I think about it, osx has a graphic eq and a parametric eq audio unit installed by default.

any of the wave editors will do, you use a audio unit or vst for eq, thats how most people work anyway.

Twisted wave is pretty good.

No bigazz daws just a wav editor dawg

Select -> chopout -> eq-> cmd s -> name -> move on

Wavosaur looks good.. Wonder if wine can handle it

Originoo Loop Jiggaz

ableton?

Reaper?

Peak Proooo is the shit.

but it's expensive.

If you were on PC, I would say Wavosaur. That said, it runs on my 500 mhz Vaio just fine. So you can probably dumpster dive a computer that will run it. Or maybe you can emulate it on OSX.

Wavelab 7? Not sure about its looping abilities but it is probably the closest to soundforge in terms of features and you can def do realtime effects and save cuts and edits as new files..