Re: [AUDITORY] Recommendations for an audio editor?

Subject: Re: [AUDITORY] Recommendations for an audio editor?

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Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2025 04:13:29 +0000

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Thread-topic: Recommendations for an audio editor?

Sounds like Praat can practically all of these features

Respectfully,

Dimitri Brunelle

Hearing Science PhD Candidate

Walton Lab Graduate Research Assistant

Vice-President of START-CSD

Communication Sciences and Disorders

University of South Florida

From: AUDITORY - Research in Auditory Perception <AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Oberfeld-Twistel, Daniel <oberfeld@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2025 4:45:27 AM
To: AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Recommendations for an audio editor?

Dear list,

we’ve been using Adobe Audition as an audio editor for decades, but now our IT department is cancelling the campus license due to an (admittedly) high price tag.

So I was wondering if someone can recommend an alternative audio editor. I’ve tried Audacity but find it has some limitations.

Here’s what we want to do with the editor / which features are important:

Look at waveform and spectrogram of audio files (also with more than 2 channels)
Show time axis in units of seconds as well as in units of samples
Convenient zooming (time and amplitude)
Selection of time windows not only with the mouse but also by entering end and start times / samples numerically
Frequency spectrum for the selected time window
Amplitude statistics for the selected time window (at least RMS amplitude and peak amplitude)
Convenient way of switching between audio files
Playback of whole sound and of loops
Format conversion (i.e., WAV to FLAC, sample rate conversion)
Less important: Signal processing / sound effects, except for amplitude normalization

Daniel

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Prof. Dr. Daniel Oberfeld-Twistel

Johannes Gutenberg - Universitaet Mainz, Experimental Psychology

Wallstrasse 3

55122 Mainz

Germany

http://www.staff.uni-mainz.de/oberfeld/

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