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The audio editor is a simple and convenient service that makes it as easy as possible to work with music tracks. Every day, technologies are developing faster and faster, and today any novice user will be able to work with audio recordings without turning to professionals for help. Everyone at home can give the soundtrack an original effect, cut out the chorus of a song, or mix several melodies and record their own remake of the track.

The user can also change the format of the audio recording. You can not only use the installed programs on your PC, but also work with music online through special services on the Internet. For maximum convenience, we will consider several utilities and services.

Downloadable editors

All changes to the audio track can be made using a specific program. By downloading it, you can get an advanced melody editing tool, including even such simple functions as trimming a music track or changing its format.

Audacity

A standard and affordable utility for processing audio tracks, consisting of a large set of functionalities. Audacity appeared back in 2000. More than 15 years have passed since the release, and during this time the project has been regularly supplemented and developed. The last update of this software was released in March 2015. The program can work with many audio formats and codecs: AIFF, WAV, MP2, MP3, Ogg, AU and others. Any format can be recoded very quickly. For ease of use, the Audacity utility has a huge number of different audio tracks for combining, special effects and filters to make any composition brighter and more original.

Wavosaur

Wavosaur is a free music editor that is considered to be the most functional and user-friendly. One of the advantages of this program is that you can work in it via the Internet without downloading it to your computer. The uniqueness of Wavosaur lies in the ability to represent each audio track in 3D format. The service opens many audio formats: WAV, AIFF (AIF), MP3, Ogg, etc. An unlimited number of melodies are processed in real time. The program works on all operating systems except Windows 7, Windows 8 b Windows 8.1. If the user has OS data installed, he will have to find an alternative program for working with music tracks.

Audio Editor Gold

Compared to those listed above, Audio Editor Gold is not free. The demo version is available for 30 days, after which a reminder about the registration of the program constantly appears. The interface is very convenient and simple, therefore, despite the paid basis, this service is also very popular among music lovers. You can edit the track on the displayed waveform segment of the audio recording, which can be scaled to highlight sections of the audio track more clearly. Transcoding any audio file using Audio Editor Gold will be very fast, so the process of creating creative compositions will not take much of your time and will not turn into a routine.

Online audio editors

The Internet is developing, and today users of the World Wide Web have the opportunity to use many programs online. Each client on the Internet can very easily edit any audio track without installing programs on their PC.

Twistedwave

TwistedWave is one of the utilities that does not need to be installed on your computer. The program has the functions of trimming, transcoding and using the desired filter to change the audio track online.
TwistedWave contains effects of fading out the sound of the entire melody or its separate section, about 40 VTS effects. In addition, the set of functions of the program has a convenient option to save the edited melody in the network cloud. The following formats are supported: WAV, FLAC, MP3, WMA, Ogg, MP2, AIFC, AIFF, Apple CAF, etc. Even the bit rate can be set manually (from 8 kb / s to 320 kb / s). All of the above allows us to judge the TwistedWave software as a multifunctional audio converter.

Free processing is only possible for mono mode. You will have to pay extra for processing records in two or more channels

Online MP3 Cutter

One of the most simple and easy-to-use utilities for editing audio tracks. Online MP3 Cutter allows you to create effective melodies, spending a minimum of time and effort on the processing process.
For example, to cut a chorus from a song, you just need to select the desired melody, open it, specify the desired section and save the finished audio segment to your computer. At the same stage, the track is converted into the desired format. Online MP3 Cutter works with five audio formats: WAC, AAC, AMR, Apple CAF and MP3. You can use any functions of this software absolutely free of charge, whether it is reformatting audio compositions, trimming or applying various musical effects. Convenience of work with the service and a pleasant interface make Online MP3 Cutter one of the most popular among the majority of users.

Make Your Own Ringtone

Make Your Own Ringtone is one of the most convenient online programs, the functionality of which is aimed at creating original ringtones. Unlike the Online MP3 Cutter service, Make Your Own Ringtone uses about 16 different overdubbing effects.
Track encoding formats: MPC, OGG, MP3, M4R, AAC and MP4. You can save the created melody to a computer, mobile device, or send the finished track to the specified e-mail to any user. Make Your Own Ringtone can be used as an online program. All declared formats are very easy and quick to convert and save to the required formats. You can trim the audio track, or you can simply save it again in the desired format.

As well as complex (overlay effects, equalization, audio recording).

Audacity

Audacity - ... There are versions for popular editions of Windows, Linux and macOS. The utility's functionality allows it to compete with commercial developments.

The app interface is rude. For experienced users, the large icons and buttons of the main functions will remind the design of Windows XP. For fans of macOS, the design of the utility will seem archaic. Although it cannot be called beautiful, it is nevertheless simple and straightforward. Valmost all inscriptions are presented with a few exceptions, which will allow you to get started without a long study of manuals.

The interface of the utility is built in such a way that even a user who had no previous experience with such software can perform basic operations with audio data. Buttons for basic actions are located in the upper pane of the main window.

In order for the program to start supporting the main popular ones, you need to install the free FFmpeg and LAME codecs. This is inconvenient, but the developers had no other choice due to licensing issues. Experienced users will love the fact that the utility can handle uncompressed data (FLAC, WAV).

When the user finishes editing and saves the file,will automatically open a dialog for filling in tags. If the user is often engaged in audio editing, he does not need to enter information manually every time - the utility allows you to create templates.

To add files to the editor, use a standard dialog or simple drag and drop. With sound, the program can do everything the same as commercial products: noise reduction, gluing, cropping, applying effects, changing the pitch. During operation, the original file is not affected in any way. The application copies the sections of the track, on which operations were performed, to the project directory. When the user clicks on the "Save" button, the utility simply combines the modified and original data to create a new file. Thus, the maximum security of user data is achieved.

Can save the whole track or a separate part. If you are editing multichannel audio, it is possible to save the individual channels to separate files.

In addition to making changes to existing tracks, the application can record sound from the line-in of the audio card, the mixer and microphone built into the OS. In this case, the utility allows you to start capturing after pressing the button or upon reaching the signal level of the specified limit.

Sound softwarehas an extensive set of effects in its arsenal. If these are not enough, you can install any third party VST plugin. The frequency response analyzer is generally stable. But it has one significant drawback. After downloading the file, the utility analyzes only part of it.

Summary

Despite the fact that the program has disadvantages, it is the best free audio editor. Its functionality is comparable to commercial products. After downloading the application, the user gets a powerful tool. And the price of commercial analogs with the same functionality is very high. The download link is on the official Audacity resource. Windows- OS, which is most susceptible to virus threats, so it is not recommended to download the utility from third-party resources.

Mixcraft

Mixcraft is not just an audio editor, but a whole virtual studio. Its main distinguishing feature is a large number of built-in samples, loops, effects, virtual instruments.

All this variety of instruments allows not only performing the simplest operations on audio data, but also creating your own tracks, making remixes.

Key Features

Sound softwarehas the following distinctive features:

• 7000 samples are supplied with the program;
• over 20 built-in professional-grade effects;
• 11 pre-installed plugins in VST format;
• the ability to import loops from popular library containers;
• The utility supports almost all modern audio file formats.

Mixcraft is the software best suited for mixing or composing users. The program interface is made non-standard, so the utility will take some time to master.

The only drawback is this program for working with soundnot free. However, it can be used for two weeks without purchasing a license.

08/26/2014 at 12:07

Any sound engineer / beatmaker has to process digital audio, just like a photographer edit images. The sound engineer just needs to mask bad or damaged fragments, remove noise, and use filters. In general, audio processing is not an easy task, and today I have compiled a list of the most convenient and popular audio editors to help you.

Sony Sound Forge Pro 11.0 build 234

He has been considered the best professional editor for many years. Many masters use it to make the sound better. SONY Sound Forge Pro is the number one choice for a generation of artists, producers and editors. Its popularity and quality processing makes it one of the most advanced audio editors out there.

Adobe audition cc

This program offers fairly straightforward tools for audio editing, mixing, restoration, and effects. It has a Sound Remover that allows you to remove sounds from an entire file by analyzing a small selection. It is possible to create gorgeous soundscapes with sound design tools. Worth trying.

Adobe Audition CS6

And this audio editor is very powerful. It has powerful features like real-time clip stretching and automatic speech alignment. Will help you save tons of time.

GoldWave v5.67

This professional sound editor is capable of handling complex sounds, restoring, enhancing and converting.

Content

Processing audio files is considered to be the lot of specialists, musicians, sound engineers. Several years ago it was so. Radio programs were prepared, commercials were created. Music was born in the studios, solo and vocal parts were recorded. As a consequence, the market for wave editors was not rich in simple, affordable software products to try and get started right away.

Time does not stand still. Despite the seeming complexity of a significant proportion of modern wave editors, most of their users today do not even have a basic knowledge of musical literacy. The popularity of mobile phones that support MP3 ringtone playback is causing increased attention to audio processing tools.

The girl bought a fancy phone. There are constantly advertisements on TV and radio, calling to send SMS and receive a new melody. Of course, this service costs a lot of money, and if you get a taste, ordering a large amount of music, you can even go bankrupt. Downloading original MP3 songs to your phone will run out of memory very quickly. Few people buy additional flash-cards for their mobile friend, preferring to be content with a few tens of megabytes, which are available by default. In addition, the processor speed of mobile devices is significantly slower than that of desktop computers, and the processing of large amounts of data greatly slows down the phone.

Surprisingly, the main contingent of users of wave editors are young girls who perform simple operations on MP3 files. The desire to stand out, to show friends a new melody, which no one else in the world has yet, makes young ladies sit down at their personal computers. And after loading the wave editor, a melody opens, a fragment is selected and saved to the hard disk with a lower data rate. As a seasoning, you can add various effects, record a voice from a microphone and add to music, make a medley of several songs.

Audacity- free audio editor.
Supports basic operations for working with sound - cut, copy, paste and delete. Using a "pencil" to edit individual sample points. Change and mix an unlimited number of tracks.

Possibility of displaying oscillograms of channels, spectrum analyzer, the possibility of various amplitude and frequency conversions.

Other features of the program:
• Audacity can record sound externally from a microphone built into the OS of the mixer or from the Line In channel.
• Record up to 16 channels simultaneously with a multichannel sound card.
• Volume indicators before, during and after recording.
• Recording and editing of 16/24/32-bit audio data.
• Sampling rates up to 96 kHz.
• Conversions of sampling rates and bit depths are performed using high-quality resampling and dithering algorithms.
• Mixing tracks with different quality characteristics with automatic conversion to project characteristics in real time.
• Record while listening to existing tracks.
• Smooth volume change using the envelope editing tool.
• Support for various effects - changing the pitch without changing the tempo and vice versa, removing static noise, hum, hiss and other recording defects, changing the frequency characteristics using an equalizer, adjusting the volume using a compressor, amplification and normalization effect.
• Fast work with large files.
• Audacity's interface is multilingual, supports Ukrainian and Russian.
• Cross-platform application - works under Windows, Mac OS X, GNU / Linux and other operating systems.

Supported file formats:
• The ability to import audio files into an Audacity project, modify them, combine them with other files or new recordings, and then export the results to files of other formats. Namely, in 18 different formats supported by the libsndfile library.
• Export files in WAV, AIFF, AU, and Ogg Vorbis formats, as well as MP3 using the LAME encoder, which is installed separately.
• Import of WAV, AIFF, AU, Ogg Vorbis and MPEG files (including MP2 and MP3 files) using libmad.
• Create WAV and AIFF files that can be burned to an audio CD.
• Opening raw files (files without headers) using the "Import raw file" command.

WaveSurfer is a free audio editor, a tool for visualizing and manipulating audio data. Has a simple and intuitive interface, but does not support Russian.

Functionality of the program:
• WaveSurfer provides basic audio editing operations such as delete, copy, paste, zero crossing in height.
• Sound effects such as fading, normalizing, echoing, inverting, changing, replacing with silence, and DC-removal.
• Sound analysis and visualization functions - spectral sections, spectrogram, waveform, etc.
• Supports reading and writing various audio formats - WAV, AU, AIFF, MP3, CSL, SD, Ogg Vorbis and NIST / Sphere.
• Expansion of functionality due to additional modules.
• Works on a large number of platforms - Linux, Windows, Macintosh, Solaris, HP-UX, FreeBSD.

Description on the official website: http://www.speech.kth.se/software
User manual in English: http://www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/man.html
Download WaveSurfer: http://www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/download.html

Free Studio- a free package of multimedia applications.

Free Audio Dub- an audio editing utility that allows you to remove unnecessary parts from an audio track without re-encoding:
• Works fast and easy to use.
• Work without losing the quality of the original, because no recoding is performed.
• Supports many audio formats - MP3, WAV, AAC, AC3, M4A, MP2, OGG, WMA.

Free Video to MP3 Converter- utility for extracting audio from video files:
• Save audio data in high, normal or economy quality to MP3 or WAV Lossless Audio format.
• Supports input video formats: AVI, IVF, DIV, DIVX, OGV, MPG, MPEG, MPE, MP4, M4V, WMV, ASF, MOV, QT, TS, MTS, M2T, M2TS, MOD, TOD, 3GP2, 3GPP, 3GP , 3G2, DVR-MS, VRO, FLV, F4V, AMV, RM, RMM, RV, RMVB and MKV.
• Auto-fill title and cover with audio frame from video, which can be viewed in iTunes, Winamp or Windows Explorer.

The Free Studio package contains 41 multimedia utilities, detailed in the article