Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It allows you to record live audio, converts tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs, edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files.
Features
Audacity can record live audio through a microphone or mixer, or digitize recordings from cassette tapes, vinyl records, or minidiscs. With some sound cards, it can also capture streaming audio.
* Record from microphone, line input, or other sources.
* Dub over existing tracks to create multi-track recordings.
* Record up to 16 channels at once (requires multi-channel hardware).
* Level meters can monitor volume levels before, during, and after recording.
2.Mp3DirectCut
mp3DirectCut is a fast and extensive audio editor and recorder for compressed mp3. You can directly cut, copy, paste or change the volume with no need to decompress your files for audio editing.
Features
* Non-destructive cut, copy, paste
* Volume change, fade, normalize, pause detection
* mp3 recording with ACM or Lame encoder
* Fast mp3 visualisation and easy navigation
* Supports Layer 2 (dvd/dvb audio)
* ID3v1.1 tag editor · ID3v2 tag keeping
* Cue Sheet support
* Auto cue (track dividing by time values)
* Track splitting with filename and tag creation
* Trim · Crop · Fast play · Loop play
* VU meter, bitrate visualisation
* High speed recorder · Command line usage
* View screenshots
3.Wavosaur
Wavosaur is a free sound editor, audio editor, wav editor software for editing, processing and recording sounds, wav and mp3 files. Wavosaur has all the features to edit audio (cut, copy, paste, etc.) produce music loops, analyze, record, batch convert.
Features
* Multiple Document Interface for working with many files in one session
* All classic editing functions : cut, copy, paste, paste mix, paste replace/insert, paste to new file, trim/crop, delete, undo.
* Many processing options: mute, channel convert (stereo->mono, mono->stereo),insert silence, change volume, normalize level, fade in/out,invert/flip, undo.
* Accurate waveform representation, fast zoom in/out,clean easy to use interface Right mouse to scroll/display context menu. Skinable editor look.
4.Ardour
Ardour is a digital audio workstation. You can use it to record, edit and mix multi-track audio. You can produce your own CDs, mix video soundtracks, or just experiment with new ideas about music and sound.
Features
* Unlimited audio tracks and buses
* Non-destructive, non-linear editing with unlimited undo
* Anything-to-anywhere signal routing
* Unlimited pre- and post-fader plugins
* 32 bit floating point audio path
* Automatic track delay compensation
* Sample accurate automation
* Standard file formats (BWF, WAV, WAV64, AIFF, CAF & more ...)
* Full AudioUnit plugin support on OS X
* More than 200 LADSPA & LV2 plugins freely available
* Support for Windows VST plugins available
* MIDI CC control with 1 click
* Level 2 MIDI Machine Control
* MIDI Timecode (MTC) Master or Slave
* Full integration with all JACK applications
* Video-synced playback, pull up/pull down
5.Traverso DAW
Traverso DAW is a GPL licensed, cross platform multitrack audio recording and editing suite, with an innovative and easy to master User Interface. It’s suited for both the professional and home user, who needs a robust and solid DAW.
Features
Traverso's main feature is it's Graphical User Interface philosophy. Use the graphical elements to control the application.This not only makes using the program faster, but you will learn how to use the application and it's available functions just by using it.
* Clean and concise interface
* Non-destructive editing
* Virtually unlimited track count
* Unlimited un/redo
* Playback and Record in the file format of your choice
* On the fly samplerate conversion
* Multiple Driver Backends
* Lockless realtime audio processing
* CD TOC creation, integrated CD Burning
6.WavePad Sound Editor
WavePad Sound Editor lets you make and edit music, voice and other audio recordings.WavePad works as a wav editor or mp3 editor but it also supports a number of other file formats including vox, gsm, real audio, au, aif, flac, ogg and more.
Features
* Sound editing functions include cut, copy, paste, delete, insert, silence, autotrim and more.
* Full featured Mp3 editing software support.
* Tools include spectral analysis (FFT) and speech synthesis (text-to-speech).
* Recorder supports autotrim and voice activated recording and more.
* Audio restoration features including noise reduction and click pop removal.
* Supports sample rates from 6000 to 96000Hz, stereo or mono, 8, 16, 24 or 32 bits.
* Includes its own CD ripper with 'ultrafast 'rip mode and cddb music database lookup.
* Works directly with MixPad multi-track audio mixing software.
* Links directly to the Express Burn CD Recorder to burn your sound files to CD.
* Edit tracks for the Zulu DJ software.
* Easy to use interface will get you started editing in just minutes.
7.Audiobook Cutter
Audiobook Cutter splits your MP3 audio books and podcasts in a fast and user friendly way. The split files can easily be used on mobile MP3 players because of their small-size. Their duration allows smooth navigation through the book.
Features
* Splits large MP3 audio books into small files
* Slices in silent periods
* Without loss in quality
* New: Improved performance (3x faster)
* New: Extended track name options
* Lifetime updates
* Runs on Windows 2000, XP and Vista
8.Jokosher
Jokosher is a simple yet powerful multi-track studio. With it you can create and record music, podcasts and more, all from an integrated simple environment.
Features
* Easy to use interface, designed from the ground up. Jokosher uses concepts and language familiar to musicians, and is a breeze to use.
* Simple editing with splitting, trimming and moving tools.
* Multi-track volume mixing with VU sliders.
* Import audio (Ogg Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, WAV and anything else supported by GStreamer) into your projects.
* A range of instruments can be added to a project, and instruments can be renamed. Instruments can also be muted and soloed easily.
* Export to MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, WAV and anything else GStreamer supports.
* Documentation (User Guide, FAQ, Tutorial) and User Community (Forums, IRC).
9.LMMS
LMMS is a free cross-platform alternative to commercial programs like FL Studio, which allow you to produce music with your computer. This includes the creation of melodies and beats, the synthesis and mixing of sounds, and arranging of samples.
Features
* Song-Editor for composing songs
* A Beat+Bassline-Editor for creating beats and basslines
* An easy-to-use Piano-Roll for editing patterns and melodies
* An FX mixer with 64 FX channels and arbitrary number of effects allow unlimited mixing possibilities
* Many powerful instrument and effect-plugins out of the box
* Full user-defined track-based automation and computer-controlled automation sources
* Compatible with many standards such as SoundFont2, VST(i), LADSPA, GUS Patches, and full MIDI support
* Import of MIDI and FLP (Fruityloops® Project) files.
10.Mp3Splt
Mp3Splt-project is a utility to split mp3 and ogg files selecting a begin and an end time position, without decoding. It’s very useful to split large mp3/ogg to make smaller files or to split entire albums to obtain original tracks.
Features
* split mp3 and ogg files from a begin time to an end time without decoding
* ID3v1 & ID3v2 tags support for mp3 files (using libid3tag)
* split an album with splitpoints from the freedb.org server
* split an album with local .XMCD, .CDDB or .CUE file
* split files automatically with silence detection
* split files by a fixed time length
* split files created with Mp3Wrap or AlbumWrap
* split concatenated mp3 files
* support for mp3 VBR (variable bit rate)
* specify output directory for split files
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