Mix your music tracks, add effects, edit your songs with this utility

Audacity is an open source, cross-platform audio editor and recorder that aims to process the most popular audio formats, podcasts included. Audacity won’t disappoint if you need a piece of software that can record live, convert tapes or cut/splice/mix sounds.

Audacity features support for importing, processing and exporting WAV, FLAC, AIFF, AU and OGG Vorbis files. Bundled with a large array of plugins and effects, this software is ready for audio recording/playback, track mixing and audio spectrum analysis.

Audacity has a clean and pleasant user interface, with rich menus that offer easy access to all of its functions. There’s also a quick access toolbar from where you can trigger the player or the recorder.

Audacity can record multiple channels simultaneously at high sample rates from microphones, USB or Firewire devices. Sound editing can be performed via basic Cut/Copy/Paste/Delete operations. Mixing can be achieved from multiple clips, while the Draw feature allows altering individual sample points.

The rich list of Effects includes noise processing, equalization, bass, high/low pass filters, as well as amplify, fade in/out, normalize, reverse, echo and phaser filters. Additional effects can be achieved via plugins.

Audacity can also perform flawless audio analysis through an algorithm based on the Fourier transformation. Frequencies can be visualized through spectrogram views, while the Plot Spectrum allows users to analyze frequencies.

All in all, Audacity impresses through its plethora of features combined with ease of use and accessibility. The processing speed is decent, to say the least and the results are of superior audio quality.

Audacity is an audio tool that allows you to record and play sounds, import or export WAV, AIFF or MP3 files.

Use it to edit your sounds using Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, or apply effects to your recordings.

Audacity also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio analysis applications. Built-in effects include Wahwah, Bass Boost, and Noise Removal, and it also supports VST plug-in effects.

Requirements:

· 300 MHz CPU (2 GHz recommended, depending on the OS)
· 64 MB RAM (4 GB recommended, depending on the OS)

What's New in This Release:

Bug fixes:

Interface:
· Selection Toolbar: a value for the previous whole second displayed if the value was close to a whole second.
· Finding zero crossings could cause the selection to expand into white space at either side of the clip.
· Clips did not drag to another track if mouse was over a selection.
· Mixer Board: Rendering four tracks resulted in a redundant Track Strip followed by a crash.

Imports, Exports and Files:
· Exporting to WAV or AIFF led to a "Libsndfile says" error or corrupted output due to order of metadata in imported files.

Effects and Analysis:
· Normalize: Fixed issues where normalization could be to wrong value if applied with DC offset correction, or if applied to "read-directly" WAV and AIFF files before On-Demand completed.
· Sliding Time Scale: fixed an audible discontinuity at the beginning of the processed selection; fixed a serious quality problem on Linux 64-bit.

Other miscellaneous bug fixes:
· including fix to prevent zooming with mouse...

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