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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