Audacity is a free, open source digital audio editor and recording application. Edit your sounds using cut, copy, and paste features (with unlimited undo functionality), mix tracks, or apply effects to your recordings. The program 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 bass boost, wah wah, and noise removal, and the program also supports VST plug-in effects.
You can use Audacity to:
- Record live audio.
- Record computer playback on any Windows Vista or later machine.
- Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
- Edit WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP2, MP3 or Ogg Vorbis sound files.
- AC3, M4A/M4R (AAC), WMA and other formats supported using optional libraries.
- Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together.
- Numerous effects including change the speed or pitch of a recording.
- Write your own plug-in effects with Nyquist.
- And more! See the complete list of features.
Audacity v3.6.1 is a hotfix release. It fixes the following bugs:
- Fixed a crash when exporting multichannel audio.
- Fixed a crash when pasting mono clips into stereo tracks.
- (Accessibility) Made more values available when using the plain UI of plugins. (Thanks, David Bailes!)
- Prevented incompatible versions from opening projects created in 3.6.x.
- Fixed the dark theme sometimes having white corners in buttons.
Download: Audacity 64-bit | Standalone ~20.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: Audacity 32-bit | Standalone
View: Audacity Home Page | Release Notes