Digital audio editor

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A digital audio editor is a computer application for audio editing, i.e. manipulating digital audio. Editors designed for use with music 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

Mix multiple sound sources/tracks, combine them at various volume levels and pan from channel to channel to one or more output tracks

Apply simple or advanced effects or filters, including compression, expansion, flanging, reverb, noise reduction and equalization to change the audio

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.

Editors designed for use in speech research add the ability to make measurements and perform acoustic analysts 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] List of audio editor software

	Creator	OS support	Note	External link
Ardour	Paul Davis	OS X / Linux / Unix	Free	[1]
Audacity	Dominic Mazzoni	OS X / Windows / Unix	Free	[2]
Audio Dementia	Holladay Audio	Windows	-	[3]
Audition	Adobe Systems	Windows	Previously known as CoolEdit	[4]
BIAS Peak	BIAS	OS X	-	[5]
Fisson	Rogue_Amoeba	OS X	-	[6]
FlexiMusic Wave Editor	FlexiMusic	Windows	-	[7]
Goldwave	Goldwave Inc.	Windows	-	[8]
Jokosher	Jokosher community	Linux	Free	[9]
MP3 Stream Editor	3delite	Windows	Non-destructive audio editor	[10]
n-Track Studio	FAsoft	Windows		[11]
SndBite	Bill Poser	Linux	Free. (Editor for cutting a recording into many small pieces.)	[12]
Sound Forge	Sony	Windows	(Formerly from Sonic Foundry)	[13]
Sweep	Conrad Parker	Linux / Unix	Free	[14]
Wavelab	Steinberg	Windows	-	[15]
WavePad	NCH Software	Windows	Free and Licensed	[16]
WaveSurfer	Centre for Speech Technology at KTH	OS X / Windows / Unix	Free	[17]
XO Wave	XO Audio	OS X / Linux	Proprietary	[18]
	Creator	OS support	Note	External link