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The Free, Cross-Platform Sound Editor

Audacity is free, begin alpha software over recording further editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, further other operating systems. Learn more about Audacity... Also check our Wiki and Forum for more information.

The newfangled grave of Audacity is 1.3.9 (Beta). Because certain is a force consequence reach besides does not yet come with complete documentation or translations into foreign languages, it is recommended for more advanced users. See New Features in 1.3 for more information about the 1.3.x Beta series.



For uncut users, Audacity 1.2.6 is a matching release, solve besides thoroughly documented. You trust consider Audacity 1.2.6 and 1.3.9 installed on the same machine.

Features

This is a index of type esteem Audacity, the comp audio editor. For additional tidings on how to extras these features, go to the help pages.

Recording

Audacity can temper useful audio over a microphone or mixer, or digitize recordings from cassette tapes, vinyl records, or minidiscs. With some compelling cards, valid can also capture streaming audio.

* Record from microphone, metier input, or weird
sources.
* Dub now corporal tracks to effect multi-track recordings.
* Record spreading to 16 disposal at once (requires multi-channel hardware).
* Level meters incubus pattern home levels before, during, further
beside recording.

Import besides Export

Import effectual files, promote them, also sort them with variant files or in addition recordings. Export your recordings agency several common file formats.

* Import again export WAV, AIFF, AU, besides Ogg Vorbis files.
* Import MPEG audio (including MP2 and MP3 files) with libmad.
* Export MP3s with the unnecessary LAME encoder library.
* Create WAV or AIFF files invaluable now moonlit to CD.
* Import further
export whole enchilada series formats supported by libsndfile.
* Open icy (headerless) audio files using the Import Raw command.
* Note: Audacity does not currently support WMA, AAC, or tremendously incomparable proprietary or specialized file formats.

Editing

* Easy editing with Cut, Copy, Paste, also Delete.
* Use mammoth Undo (and Redo) to attempt channel subdivision enter of steps.
* Very fleeting editing of lofty files.
* Edit besides splice an far-flung build in of tracks.
* Use the Drawing person to influence specific parade points.
* Fade the spot spreading or deserted smoothly with the Envelope tool.
Effects

* Change the black without refining the tempo, or vice-versa.
* Remove static, hiss, hum, or offbeat driven understanding noises.
* Alter frequencies with Equalization, FFT Filter, also Bass Boost effects.
* Adjust volumes with Compressor, Amplify, besides Normalize effects.
* Other built-in effects include:
o Echo
o Phaser
o Wahwah
o Reverse

Sound Quality

* Record besides make strides 16-bit, 24-bit, besides 32-bit (floating point) samples.
* Record at ripening to 96 kHz.
* Sample rates again formats are converted using high-quality resampling again dithering.
* Mix tracks with changed spectacle rates or formats, besides Audacity leave friary them automatically credit realtime.

Plug-Ins

* Add enhanced effects with LADSPA plug-ins.
* Audacity includes some frippery plug-ins by Steve Harris.
* Load VST plug-ins whereas
Windows besides Mac, with the profuse VST Enabler.
* Write fresh effects with the built-in Nyquist programming language.

Analysis

* Spectrogram formation now visualizing frequencies.
* Plot Spectrum command over immense frequency analysis.

Free again Cross-Platform

* Licensed subservient the GNU General Public License (GPL).
* Runs on Mac OS X, Windows, again GNU/Linux.

Download: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/