Audacity is a free audio recorder/editor/mixer. You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, and MP3 files, and more. Use it to edit your sounds using Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, or apply effects to your recordings. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio analysis applications. Built-in effects include Bass Boost, Wahwah, and Noise Removal, and it also supports VST plug-in effects.
What's New
Version 2.0.6:
Improvements
Interface:
Redesigned, searchable Keyboard Preferences with Tree, Name and Key views.
Edit Menu: "Cut" and "Delete" are now in the top level of the menu.
Transport Menu now includes "Play/Stop" and "Play/Stop and Set Cursor" (use Keyboard Preferences to create shortcuts for "Play" and "Stop").
Audacity is a free audio recorder/editor/mixer. You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, and MP3 files, and more. Use it to edit your sounds using Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, or apply effects to your recordings. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio analysis applications. Built-in effects include Bass Boost, Wahwah, and Noise Removal, and it also supports VST plug-in effects.
Version 2.0.6:
Improvements
Interface:
Redesigned, searchable Keyboard Preferences with Tree, Name and Key views.
Edit Menu: "Cut" and "Delete" are now in the top level of the menu.
Transport Menu now includes "Play/Stop" and "Play/Stop and Set Cursor" (use Keyboard Preferences to create shortcuts for "Play" and "Stop").
Tracks Menu now includes "Mix and Render to New Track".
Track Drop-Down Menu now has Move Track To Top and Move Track To Bottom.
New right-click menu choice "Delete Label" to remove single labels.
"Snap To" now offers choice of snap to the "closest" or "prior" position. Note: the previous "Snap To On" keyboard shortcut will no longer work.
"Snap To" settings are now independent for each project.
Effects:
Truncate Silence: redesigned with simpler option "Truncate Detected Silence" to shorten to the specified length without compressing silence.
VST effects: New "Settings" dialog lets you specify buffer size (for faster processing) and enable buffer delay compensation (to prevent inserted silence). Compensation may cause a crash in a few plug-ins.
VST effects now support standard FXP presets.
LV2 effects are now supported on all platforms (textual interface only).
Import or export using FFmpeg now requires FFmpeg 1.2 or later (or libav 0.8 or later). For recommended downloads of recent FFmpeg please visit http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#ffdown.
New Tamil translation (largely complete).
(OS X) Easier Audacity installation using the DMG: drag the Audacity folder to the /Applications shortcut.
Bug Fixes
Interface:
Region Restore did not restore the region after using Preferences.
Dragging selections with the keyboard or Selection Toolbar digits was very slow.
(OS X) Some full and reduced Menu Bar items were not translated.
(OS X and Linux) Fixed various interface crashes.
Effects:
Reverb and Paulstretch were missing from Chains.
Analyze > Contrast could report very inaccurate rms levels.
Noise Removal: Attack and decay times were half as long as set.
(OS X and Linux) Nyquist effects ran much more slowly than on Windows.
Click or drag on the Timeline after Loop Play continued to loop.
Transcription Toolbar did not play slower than 0.1x speed.
(Linux) Audacity did not build if python 2 was not available.
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