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Dominic Mazzoni

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to:

• Record live audio.
• Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
• Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files.
• Cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together.
• Change the speed or pitch of a recording.

Features:

Recording

Audacity can record live audio through a microphone or mixer, or digitize recordings from cassette tapes, vinyl records, or minidiscs. With some sound cards, it can also capture streaming audio.

• Record from microphone, line input, or other sources.
• Dub over existing tracks to create multi-track recordings.
• Record up to 16 channels at once (requires multi-channel hardware).
• Level meters can monitor volume levels before, during, and after recording.

Import and Export

Import sound files, edit them, and combine them with other files or new recordings. Export your recordings in several common file formats.

• Import and export WAV, AIFF, AU, and Ogg Vorbis files.
• Import MPEG audio (including MP2 and MP3 files) with libmad.
• Export MP3s with the optional LAME encoder library.
• Create WAV or AIFF files suitable for burning to CD.
• Import and export all file formats supported by libsndfile.
• Open raw (headerless) audio files using the “Import Raw” command.
• Note: Audacity does not currently support WMA, AAC, or most other proprietary or restricted file formats.

Editing

• Easy editing with Cut, Copy, Paste, and Delete.
• Use unlimited Undo (and Redo) to go back any number of steps.
• Very fast editing of large files.
• Edit and mix an unlimited number of tracks.
• Use the Drawing tool to alter individual sample points.
• Fade the volume up or down smoothly with the Envelope tool.

Effects

• Change the pitch without altering the tempo, or vice-versa.
• Remove static, hiss, hum, or other constant background noises.
• Alter frequencies with Equalization, FFT Filter, and Bass Boost effects.
• Adjust volumes with Compressor, Amplify, and Normalize effects.
• Other built-in effects include:
  • Echo
  • Phaser
  • Wahwah
  • Reverse

Sound Quality

• Record and edit 16-bit, 24-bit, and 32-bit (floating point) samples.
• Record at up to 96 KHz.
• Sample rates and formats are converted using high-quality resampling and dithering.
• Mix tracks with different sample rates or formats, and Audacity will convert them automatically in realtime.

Plug-Ins

• Add new effects with LADSPA plugins.
• Audacity includes some sample plugins by Steve Harris.
• Load VST plugins for Windows and Mac, with the optional VST Enabler.
• Write new effects with the built-in Nyquist programming language.

Analysis

• Spectrogram mode for visualizing frequencies.
• “Plot Spectrum” command for detailed frequency analysis.

Free and Cross-Platform

• Licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
• Runs on Mac OS X, Windows, and GNU/Linux.

Paul Davis

Ardour is a digital audio workstation. You can use it to record, edit and mix multi-track audio. You can produce your own CDs, mix video soundtracks, or just experiment with new ideas about music and sound.

Ardour capabilities include: multichannel recording, non-destructive editing with unlimited undo/redo, full automation support, a powerful mixer, unlimited tracks/busses/plugins, timecode synchronization, and hardware control from surfaces like the Mackie Control Universal. If you’ve been looking for a tool similar to ProTools, Nuendo, Pyramix, or Sequoia, you might have found it.

Above all, Ardour strives to meet the needs of professional users. This means implementing all the “hard stuff” that other DAWs ( even some leading commercial apps ) handle incorrectly or not at all. Ardour has a completely flexible “anything to anywhere” routing system, and will allow as many physical I/O ports as your system allows. Ardour supports a wide range of audio-for-video features such as video-synced playback and pullup/pulldown sample rates. You will also find powerful features such as “persistent undo”, multi-language support, and destructive track punching modes that aren’t available on other platforms.

Team Leader: Kai Vehmanen

Ecasound is a software package designed for multitrack audio processing. It can be used for simple tasks like audio playback, recording and format conversions, as well as for multitrack effect processing, mixing, recording and signal recycling. Ecasound supports a wide range of audio inputs, outputs and effect algorithms. Effects and audio objects can be combined in various ways, and their parameters can be controlled by operator objects like oscillators and MIDI-CCs. A versatile console mode user-interface is included in the package.

Key Features:

• Novel user-interface concept

  What makes Ecasound unique is its non-graphical user-interface. The basic working principle of ecasound is similar to the widely used gdb (software debugging) and mysql (database admin) tools. Ecasound allows the user to perform most common tasks directly from the terminal console. Repeating or otherwise complicated tasks can be easily turned into shell scripts or ECI apps. Ecasound tries to follow the time-tested UNIX design practises - see for example The Art of UNIX Programming by Eric S. Raymond.

• Highly optimized real-time engine

  Ecasound’s engine has been developed with real-time reliability as the top priority. The engine clearly separates real-time safe subsystems from non-RT subsystems such as storage access, user-interface code and memory management. This allows Ecasound to deliver reliable playback and recording in all circumstances - even under significant system load.

• Ability to adapt to runtime environment

  Ecasound will automatically adjust buffering parameters and other performance related options based on analysis of runtime environment and the requested task. Ecasound does not require you to run it with special privileges, but if available (for example the permission to utilize real-time scheduling), Ecasound will take full advantage and choose more aggressive parameters allowing to further minimize processing latencies while at the same time not risking reliability.

• Support for new Linux audio technology

  Ecasound has mature support for JACK audio server (including full transport support), LADSPA effect plugins and ALSA kernel sound subsystem. Ecasound developers are active members of the Linux audio development community.

• Portability and minimal external dependencies

  Ecasound runs on various operating systems (GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Solaris, Cygwin/win32) and architectures (IA32, PowerPC, ARM, SPARC). Ecasound implements most of its core functionality without relying on external packages. Although Ecasound can utilize numerous external packages, they are all optional. As a mimimum, Ecasound needs POSIX (with 1003.1c thread support) and ANSI C++ runtimes.

Chris Bagwell

NOTE: A COMMAND LINE INTERFACE (AS THIS PROGRAM EMPLOYS) MAY BE DIFFICULT TO USE.

Sound eXchange, abbreviated SoX, is a free digital audio editor which is licensed under the GPL and distributed by Chris Bagwell through SourceForge. SoX is written in standard C, with a command-line interface.

Features:

• Multi-platform (Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, Sun Solaris, Mac)
• Reading and writing AU, WAV, AIFF, MP3 (via an external LAME MP3 encoder), Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and other file formats
• Recording and playing audio (on Unix-like systems)
• Editing via concatenate, trim, pad, repeat, reverse, volume, fade
• Processing via chorus, flanger, echo, phaser, compressor, filter (high-pass, low-pass, shelving, etc.)
• Speed (pitch and tempo), pitch (without tempo), and tempo (without pitch) adjustment
• Noise removal
• Simple audio synthesis
• Multi-file & multi-track mixing
• Multi-file merging (e.g. 2 mono to 1 stereo)

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Development Lead: Conrad ParkerSweep is an audio editor and live playback tool for GNU/Linux, BSD and compatible systems. It supports many music and voice formats including WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, Speex and MP3, with multichannel editing and LADSPA effects plugins.Features:

• Extreme ease of use:
  • Unlimited undo/redo with a fully revertible edit history
  • Multithreaded background rendering and file import/export: effects processing is not disabled during playback, providing instantaneous feedback.
  • Precise, interactive scrubbing
  • Multichannel file support: Sweep provides complete editing and processing for multichannel sound files.
  • Customisable keybindings available for all operations
  • Translations for French, Hungarian, Italian, German, Russian and Polish.
• Support for many PCM and voice file formats via libsndfile by Erik de Castro Lopo:
  • at least 14 PCM sound file formats formats including WAV, W64, AIFF/AIFF-C, IFF/SVX, AU and raw PCM files.
  • PCM audio encoding formats including 8/16/24/32 bit PCM, 32 and 64 bit floating point, u-law, A-law and ADPCM
  • voice encoding formats including GSM 6.10, G721/G723 ADPCM, 12/16/24 bit DWVW
• Support for Ogg Vorbis format audio files:
  • an exteremely high quality, free, open and unpatented perceptual audio codec.
  • supports intuitive variable bitrate encoding, where the Vorbis encoder makes low-level encoding decisions.
  • provides access to average bitrate controls, including bounds on minimum and maximum bitrate usage.
  • Sweep provides sensible defaults and remembers encoding options between sessions.
• Support for Speex files:
  • a free, open and unpatented speech codec designed for Voice over IP (VoIP) and file-based compression.
  • supports optional variable bitrate and control over encoding complexity and frame packing.
  • Sweep provides sensible defaults and remembers encoding options between sessions.
• Support for LADSPA effects plugins, including:
  • the Computer Music Toolkit by Richard Furse, containing high and low pass filters, compressors, delays, and a port of the popular Freeverb reverb unit.
  • SWH plugins, over 30 effects plugins by Steve Harris, including overdrives, comb filter, ring modulator, pitch scaler, chorus, flanger and various distortions.
  • more listed at ladspa.org
• Powerful editing operations:
  • Cut, copy and paste insert: conventional cut or copy selected regions of a sound, and paste into the same or other sounds.
  • Discontinuous selections: select multiple regions of a sound and operate on these regions simultaneously
  • interactive moving and merging of selection boundaries
  • Selection invert, selection double/halve and selection shift left/right
• Intuitive visualisation:
  • Multiple views per clip
  • Variable zooming to below 1:1 with mouse wheel support
  • View Center, Zoom to Selection, Zoom Normal
  • Easy differentiation of multiple files with 6 standard colour schemes including Decoder Red, Orangeboom, Coogee Bay Blue and Blackwattle.
• Versatile playback modes:
  • Standard transport features: play/pause, stop, rewind, fast forward, scan reverse/forward, go to end/beginning.
  • Simultaneous playback of multiple files
  • Play all, play selection, and looping playback
  • Preview cut, preview cursor, pre-roll to cursor
  • Interactive reverse playback: includes reverse previews and reverse looping
• Flexible recording:
  • independent record and playback heads
  • “tape loop” style recording
  • reverse recording
• Device handling and portability:
  • Support for Open Sound System compatible audio devices (eg. stock Linux kernel), ALSA 0.6.0 and Solaris audio.
  • Intuitive control of application latency
  • Support for both little and big endian CPU architectures

• Live playback “DJ” features:
  • Two-handed interactive scrubbing
  • Independent gain levels per file
  • +/-10% pitch slider
  • Piano-style sample playback

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