Audacity is a free, easy-to-use, and multilingual audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, AAC, MP4, Ogg Vorbis, MP3 files, and more.
Use it to edit your sounds using Cut, Copy, and Paste (with unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, apply effects to your recordings, change the speed or pitch of a recording, and much more.
Audacity enables FLAC support. The software also has a built-in amplitude-envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode, and a frequency-analysis window for audio-analysis applications.
The software has built-in effects, including Bass Boost, Wahwah, and Noise Removal, and it also supports VST plug-in effects.
Audacity is without a doubt one of the best and easiest digital audio editors on the market and it will meet any requirement at 100% no matter if it is a home or professional audio edition.
Audacity Key Features
- Cut, copy, splice, or combine sounds collectively.
- Record live audio.
- Supports 16-bit, 24-bit, and 32-bit (floating-level) samples (the latter preserves samples in extra of full scale).
- Record computer playback on Windows Vista and later by selecting “Windows WASAPI” host in the Device Toolbar then a “loopback” enter.
- Import and Export WAV, AIFF, AU, FLAC, and Ogg Vorbis files.
- Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
- Edit WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP2, MP3 or Ogg Vorbis sound files.
- Import and export AC3, M4A/M4R (AAC), and WMA with the non-compulsory FFmpeg library (this additionally supports the import of audio from video files).
- Numerous results together with change speed or pitch and vocal discount or isolation (given suitable stereo tracks).
- And more! See the whole list of features.