

Also, for recording channel by channel, Audacity (or Adobe Audition) are really the simplest and easiest, if you’re a musician you’re not a programmer or a gamer and many DAWs are too complicated and convoluted for comfortable work. Also there’s noise reduction, amplifying only certain parts, fade in/out, it’s just easier when you have the final product in front of you. Say you’re making an album, you decide what you want on tracks for one song, then simply apply the same presets to tracks from all songs. Reaper is good, using it too, but I do prefer “destructive” editing. Now You: did we miss an application? Let us know in the comments below! Downside is that it has not been updated since 2018.

Windows, not open source, don't offer the same set of core features, or lack in other departments. They are either only available for one operating system, e.g. An alternative should offer a similar feature set, which means that the list that follows does not include commercial applications.Īll alternatives listed below lack at least one of the main characteristics of Audacity. It is free, open source and available as a cross-platform application. The plan was abandoned, but the controversy continued with the publication of a new Privacy Notice.Īudacity is an excellent audio editor.

Project ownership of Audacity changed in 2021 and one of the first planned changes to the project was the introduction of Telemetry.
