[AUDITORY] Sv: Recommendations for an audio editor?

[Anders Genell <0000042b1b867e53-dmarc-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

For pure audio editing, as opposed to full-fledged DAW functionality, I would recommend Tenacity https://tenacityaudio.org/

It is a fork of the well-known Audacity audio editor, which was initiated due to concerns about data collection after Audacity had been bought by a Russian company.

It does everything asked for in the original post. It can also be extended by plug-ins.

Regards,

Anders

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Hi all,

Just want to mention Ardour. As a Linux enthusiast I find commercial support for audio work to be lacking; Ardour has been effectively my go to for years. Cross-platform (Win, Mac, Linux), nearly all the features of ProTools (it can even import PT sessions!), all for the low low price of free (as in beer AND as in speech).

It also has an active development community - if you want a feature, you can just add it yourself and make a PR!

- Xander

Oct 11, 2025 00:08:12 Oberfeld-Twistel, Daniel <oberfeld@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

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/