Digital audio editor

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A digital audio editor is a computer application for audio editing, i.e. manipulating digital audio. Digital audio editors are the main software component of a digital audio workstation.

[edit] For use with music

Editors designed for use with music typically allow the user to do the following:

  • Record audio from one or more inputs and store recordings in the computer's memory as digital audio
  • Edit the start time, stop time, and duration of any sound on the audio timeline
  • Fade into or out of a clip (e.g. an S-fade out during applause after a performance), or between clips (e.g. crossfading between takes)
  • Mix multiple sound sources/tracks, combine them at various volume levels and pan from channel to channel to one or more output tracks
  • Playback sound (often after being mixed) that can be sent to one or more outputs, such as speakers, additional processors, or a recording medium
  • Conversion between different audio file formats, or between different sound quality levels

Typically these tasks can be performed in a manner that is both non-linear and non-destructive.

[edit] For use with speech

Editors designed for use in speech research add the ability to make measurements and perform acoustic analyses such as extracting and displaying a fundamental frequency contour or spectrogram. They typically lack most or all of the effects of interest to musicians.

[edit] Table of audio editing software

Name Creator Linux? Mac OS X? Unix? Windows? Is free software? Note
Acoustica Acon Digital Media No No No Yes No
Amadeus Pro HairerSoft No Yes No No No
Ardour Paul Davis Yes Yes Yes No Yes multi-track audio recorder
Audacity Dominic Mazzoni Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Audiobook Cutter Free Edition No No No Yes Yes MP3 audiobook splitter
Audio Editor Gold NextLevel Software No No No Yes No An innovative audio editing and recording software solution
Audio Dementia Holladay Audio No No No Yes No
Audition Adobe Systems No No No Yes No Previously known as CoolEdit
BIAS Peak BIAS No Yes No No No
Creative Wavestudio Creative Technology No No No Yes No Bundled with Creative Soundcards.
Diamond Cut DC7 Enhancedaudio.com, Inc. No No No Yes No Noise Reduction, Editing and Audio Enhancement
Ecasound Yes Yes No Yes audio recorder
Freecycle Yes No No Yes beat slicer
Fast Edit Minnetonka audio No No No Yes No
Fission Rogue Amoeba No Yes No No No
FlexiMusic Wave Editor FlexiMusic No No No Yes No Handles large audio files to Edit, Special effects such as fade, equalize, echo, reverb, modulate, stretch/shrink
Goldwave Goldwave Inc. No No No Yes No
Jokosher Jokosher community Yes No No Yes multi-track audio editor
LMMS Tobias Doerffel Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Intended as a replacement for Cubase-like software (DAW)
Media Digitalizer Digitope No No No Yes No Intended to facilitate recording cassette tapes to digital formats
Mp3splt Yes Yes Yes Yes splits MP3 and Vorbis files without decoding (see mp3splt-gtk and libmp3splt)
MP3 Stream Editor 3delite No No No Yes No Non-destructive audio editor
MusE Yes No No Yes MIDI sequencer
n-Track Studio FAsoft No No No Yes No
NU-Tech Leaff Engineering No No No Yes No Available free SDK
Pyramix Merging Technologies No No No Yes No DSP Based version and Native version
Qtractor Yes No No Yes A non-destructive multi-track audio and MIDI Workstation (DAW)
QuickAudio Sion Software No No No Yes No
Reaper Unknown No No No Yes No
ReZound Davy Durham Yes No No No Yes Graphical audio file editor
Rosegarden Yes No No Yes MIDI sequencer and multi-track recorder
SADiE SADiE No No No Yes No non-destructive multi-channel audio editor, primarily for broadcast
Sample Wrench dissidents No No No Yes No Audio editor/analyzer with MIDI transfer
Snd (link) Yes Yes No Yes audio editor
SndBite Bill Poser Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Editor for cutting a recording into many small pieces.
Sound Forge Sony No No No Yes No Formerly from Sonic Foundry
Soundbooth Adobe Systems No Yes No Yes No Intel only
Soundscape 32 Solid State Logic No No No Yes No DSP Based version - formerly from Soundscape Digital Technology
SoX Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes command-line multi-track audio editor/processor
Sweep Conrad Parker Yes No Yes No Yes
Total Recorder HighCriteria No No No Yes No Available for no cost evaluation
Traverso DAW Yes Yes Yes Yes multi-track audio recorder/editor/mixer
WaveLab Steinberg No No No Yes No
Wave Editor Abyssmedia No No No Yes No freeware version available
Wavosaur Wavosaur Team No No No Yes No freeware version available
WavePad NCH Software No Yes No Yes No freeware version available
WaveSurfer Centre for Speech Technology at KTH Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
XO Wave XO Audio Yes Yes No No No

[edit] See also

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