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Re: [AUDITORY] Recommendations for an audio editor?
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- From: Niklas Adam <auditory@EPHEMERAL.OBSERVER>
- Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2025 07:32:09 +0200
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Hi Daniel
I would recommend considering Reaper DAW, as it may be ideal for
your desired workflow. It's highly customizable and is extremely
high quality despite its low price. In fact, it often outperforms
many expensive, paid DAWs. A key feature is that everything is
scriptable using Lua.
https://www.reaper.fm/
You can try the full version without any limitations for free. The
demo never expires, and a discounted license for educators or artists
is available for $60.
Based on our experience at Notam, it's an excellent choice that
frequently outperforms Pro Tools, Cubase, Logic. etc.
Kindly,
Niklas Adam
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Niklas Adam
Audio Engineer | Developer
Notam
Norwegian centre for technology, art and music
Myrens verksted 3A
N-0473 Oslo
www.notam.no
On Fri Oct 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM CEST, Daniel Oberfeld-Twistel wrote:
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/