Audacity is a free complete audio wave editing and recording program available as open source software. It is a nice, cost effective solution and a useful addition to any home recording studio or digital audio workstation.
It can clean up and edit your samples, cut off or join your tracks and provides most tools you will need to record audio or edit sound including editing with Cut, Copy, Paste, and Delete. Adjust volume levels, fade in/out the sound smoothly with a built in envelope tool to remove clicks at the beginning of samples. There are an unlimited amount of Undos or Redos so you can go back as far as you need. Record tracks directly into Audacity using a microphone, guitar or any other audio through the soundcards line input.
It can import and export most widely used audio formats WAV, AIFF, AU, and OGG Vorbis and prepare audio files for burning onto a cd. There is an ‘Imprt Raw’ function which will allow you to work with audio files not containg any header information.
You can run the audio through effects and filters to further optimise the sound and improve the quality. There are plugins available allowing the use of vst technology as well as adding new effects to Audacity.
Audacity is a very useful program for any producer or sound designer needing to do editing to sound samples and audio files. For Ableton Live users it can integrate into Lives workflow and provide the ability to convert your files to mp3 format with the addition of the ‘Lame mp3 encoder’ for distribution of your songs on-line.
Download the latest version of this free open source audio editing program and get more information at the Audacity page on Sourceforge.
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