Audio editing software

An audio production facility at An-Najah National University

Audio editing software is software which allows editing and generating of audio data. Audio editing software can be implemented completely or partly as library, as computer application, as Web application or as a loadable kernel module.

Wave Editors are digital audio editors and there are many sources of software available to perform this function. Most can edit music, apply effects and filters, adjust stereo channels etc.. with waveform editing views and many are freeware programs without any limitations.

A digital audio workstation (DAW) can consist to a great part out of software. are usually software suites composed of many distinct software components, giving access to them through a unified graphical user interface using GTK+, Qt or some other library for the GUI widgets.

Audio data can be characterized as digitized audio signal, cf. digital audio.

For use with music

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

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

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.

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