The market for audio-editing tools feels like a maze filled with dead-ends. The market is saturated with programs that either cost a ton of money—think, for example, of Adobe Audition—or programs that haven't been maintained in many years.

A good audio-editing program for editing music or podcasts, recording sound, or remixing tunes features several essential tools:

• Basic audio editing
• Application of effects
• Ability to work with different audio formats

It's always best to record clean audio from the get-go, to reduce your post-processing rework. But for those times when you have no choice but to edit an audio file, we've pulled together a list of five free programs to help you edit your audio with professional flair.

The best music video editing software for Mac is Filmora Video Editor for Mac. This software not only adds filters and effects to your videos but also allows you to add music to your videos. You can add the inbuilt music files or upload your own music from your music library. With this music video.

Audacity (Windows, Mac, and Linux)

What We Like

• Highly extensible.

• Works with a wide variety of formats and operating systems.

What We Don't Like

• Interface looks outdated.

• Changes to a track affect original file, so they can’t be undone.

Audacity remains one of the most popular free audio editors on the market. The program features excellent editing features, plus it ships with dozens of native plugins and the capacity to load more.

In addition to its editing capability, Audacity works as a multitrack recorder, too. This feature can be useful if you want to record live audio or convert vinyl records and cassette tapes to digital audio.

It's compatible with a wide range of audio formats, including MP3, WAV, AIFF, and OGG Vorbis.

Wavepad Sound Editor (Windows, Mac, Android, Kindle)

What We Like

• Advanced tools such as speech synthesis, voice changer, and spectral analysis.

• Easy to use.

• Editing is non-destructive (can be reversed).

What We Don't Like

• Can be slow in rendering effects.

• Can’t record from more than one source at a time without MixPad (an additional app).

Wavepad Sound Editor is a feature-rich program that supports a good selection of file formats, including MP3, WMA, WAV, FLAC, OGG, and RealAudio.

Use Wavepad Sound Editor for reducing noise, clicks, and pops, and for adding effects like echo and reverb. The program offers spectral analysis, speech synthesis, and batch processing—and the editing process is inherently nondestructive, so your risk of corrupting the original data is reduced.

The program ships with all the familiar, basic tools for editing audio files, but it can also import VST plugins (Windows only) to extend its capabilities—but that feature is only available if you upgrade to the Master's version.

Power Sound Editor Free (Windows)

What We Like

• Intuitive interface.

• Lots of sound effects and manipulation tools.

What We Don't Like

• Ads during setup process.

• Significant resource consumption.

This great-looking audio editor offers a lot of functionality. It features a broad set of effects—more than 25 built-in, including some rare noise-reduction tools as voice breath reduction, which is useful for cleaning up voice recordings.

Power Sound Editor Free offers high-quality native recording, audio extraction from videos or YouTube streams, and support for a large number of input audio formats.

The downside to this program is that the free version only allows you to save your processed files as Wave files—but it does allow you to convert afterward. Upgrading to the deluxe version does away with this two-step process and unlocks additional features.

The installer for this program also contains extra, unrelated software. If you don't want these apps installed on your system, click the decline button for each one.

Songwriter's Companion allows you, the songwriter, to capture all your song ideas (titles/hooks, lyrics, and audio) in one easy-to-use application and then develop those ideas into completed songs.
Songwriter's Companion includes a full featured text editor, Rhyme Finder for finding rhymes, and an audio recording tool. All your work is highly searchable and sortable. Even when you've got hundreds or thousands of songs in progress you'll find what you're looking for with Songwriter's Companion.

Platforms: Mac OS X 10.6

System requirements: Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later

Price: $4.99

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