Audacity 3.6.1 – Free audio software

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and multilingual audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, AAC, MP4, Ogg Vorbis, and MP3 files, and more.

Use it to edit your sounds using Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, apply effects to your recordings, change the speed or pitch of a recording, and really much more.

Audacity enables FLAC support. The program also has a built-in amplitude-envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode, and a frequency-analysis window for audio-analysis applications.

The program has  the built-in effects, including Bass Boost, Wahwah, and Noise Removal, and it also supports VST plug-in effects.

Audacity is without a doubt one of the best and easiest digital audio editors on the market and it will meet any requirement at 100% no matter if it is home or professional audio edition.

Audacity Key Features:

• Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together.
• Record live audio.
• Supports 16-bit, 24-bit and 32-bit (floating point) samples (the latter preserves samples in excess of full scale).
• Record computer playback on Windows Vista and later by choosing “Windows WASAPI” host in Device Toolbar then a “loopback” input.
• Import and Export WAV, AIFF, AU, FLAC and Ogg Vorbis files.
• Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
• Edit WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP2, MP3 or Ogg Vorbis sound files.
• Import and export AC3, M4A/M4R (AAC) and WMA with the optional FFmpeg library (this also supports import of audio from video files).
• Numerous effects including change speed or pitch and vocal reduction or isolation (given suitable stereo tracks).
• And more! See the complete list of features.

Changes in version 3.6.1:

• Fixed a crash when exporting multichannel audio.
• Fixed a crash when pasting mono clips into stereo tracks.
• (Accessibility) Made more values available when using the plain UI of plugins. (Thanks, David Bailes!)
• Prevented incompatible versions from opening projects created in 3.6.x.
• Fixed the dark theme sometimes having white corners in buttons.

Changes in version 3.6.0:

Major changes

• Master effects. Audacity now features master effects. Master effects are effects which apply to the entire project at once. More information can be found at Using master effects & realtime effects.
• New compressor and limiter. A new compressor and limiter has been added, replacing the previous versions. A gain reduction history has been added to these effects when they’re used as a realtime effect.
  Factory Presets suitable for a wide range of use cases for these effects have been provided by Vladislav Isaev and Marek Iwaszkiewicz, available via the Presets & Settings button.
• New themes. Audacity now features new and improved dark and light themes. You can switch between themes via Preferences -> Interface. The theme previously used still is around as the Classic theme, and themes even older than that can be optionally installed as custom themes from here.
  Updated instructions on creating custom themes can be found here.
• Increased performance. Audacity is now quite a bit snappier than before, especially when working on larger projects and on larger screens.

Other changes

• Added FFmpeg 7 support.
• You now can paste audio files into Audacity using Ctrl+V.
• Alternative waveform colors are now themeable by custom themes.
• Removed the track name overlay preference and the “blend themes” preference.
• Scripting: Added GetInfo: Type=Selection. (Thanks, Jonatã Bolzan Loss!)
• Added an Extras > Export > Export Selected Audio option.
• Import Raw: Added support for offsets larger than 2 GB.
• Redesigned the “what’s new” dialog.
• Added an option to the View menu to show/hide RMS in waveforms.
• OpenVINO AI effects can now be downloaded from audacityteam.org/download/openvino/

Bugfixes

• When recording to a new track, the track is now scrolled back into view again.
• The macro manager no longer shows parameterless actions as editable. (Thanks, Davi Nonnenmacher!)
• Pressing Esc in some preference dialogs no longer saves them.
• Fixed stray orange lines in the high contrast theme.
• Fixed the quality slider for Ogg export on Linux. (Thanks, Devpriya Nalin!)
• Fixed a bug which could open a project with the wrong sample rate.
• Various compiler warning fixes and OpenBSD build fixes. (Thanks, Brad Smith!)

Homepage – https://www.audacityteam.org

Supported Operating Systems:

• Windows 10, Windows 11.
• macOS 10.9 and later.

Size: 14.2 MB

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