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 3.7.0 changelog:
- Improved Linux compatibility.
- Improved contrast in the light theme.
- MP3 exports: Renamed "Insane" to "Excessive".
- Improved non-standard character handling for cloud saving.
- Renamed "Split cut/delete" to "Cut/delete and leave gap".
- Pasting clips no longer moves clips on other tracks if "editing clips can move other clips" is enabled.
- Fixed database compacting not working properly sometimes.
- Improved startup speed on systems with many audio devices.
- Multi view: Fixed the hitbox of the x being misaligned with the visuals. (Thanks, Kurtsley)
- macOS: Fixed VST presets path.
- Adding, removing, replacing and reordering of effects now is undoable.
- Closing a project upon turning a realtime effect stack on and off doesn"t crash Audacity anymore.
- Canceling a stereo track mid-operation no longer crashes Audacity.
- Importing Opus files using libopus no longer shifts the audio data.
- Changed the login flow for cloud uploads.
Download: Audacity 64-bit | Standalone ~20.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: Audacity 32-bit | Standalone
View: Audacity Home Page | Release Notes | Screenshot
