Audacity can record and play sounds, loops and music and import and export WAV, AIFF, MP3, and OGG files with no limitations. You can edit your sounds using cut, copy, and paste features with unlimited undo functionality, mix tracks, or apply effects to your recordings or any sounds. Audacity has a built-in amplitude-envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode, and a frequency-analysis window for audio-analysis applications. There are many built-in effects like bass boost, wah wah, reverb, delay and noise removal and many others and the program also supports VST plug-in effects.
Pros
- Audacity is multiplatform, open-source editor Audacity has leaped to the top of our list with its clean interface, excellent features, and support for 32-bit floating-point audio.
- The performance of most functions is quick–even CPU-hogging tasks such as exporting to MP3 or adding complex effects
- Audacity has great editing features you usually don’t get for free in normal studio software editors!
- Every functional aspect of the software can be configured to suite whatever project, and whatever hardware setup, you are working with.
- A separately downloadable package of LADSPA plugins takes this to full professional post-production standards.
- Free with no limitations and no malware, perfect for recording analog to digital (audio cassettes to audio CDs or .mp3 format), good for audio editing before finalizing projects, a lot of built-in effects, low memory usage, mini pop-ups when hovering over a button is a great help, HELP file is excellent, one of the best written
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