Audacity – Best Free DAW in Market

Audacity

 Introduction

Audacity is one of the most popular audio editing software. It is used to record and edit audio clips free of cost. This free DAW available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and other Unix-like operating systems. The interface of Audacity is simple and very user-friendly. The miracle software was creation of Dominic Mazzoni and Roger Dannenberg.

Audacity Features

• Audacity can record live audio through a microphone or mixer, or digitize recordings from other media.
• Import, edit, and combine sound files. Export your recordings in many different file formats, including multiple files at once.
• MIDI playback is available.
• Amplitude envelope editing.
• Supports 16-bit, 24-bit and 32-bit. Sample rates and formats are converted using high-quality resampling and dithering.
• Support for LADSPA, LV2, Nyquist, VST and Audio Unit effect plugins. Plugins use help in modification of effects in a text editor.
• Easy editing with Cut, Copy, Paste and Delete. Also unlimited sequential Undo (and Redo) in the session to go back any number of steps.
• Tracks and selections can be fully manipulated using the keyboard. Large range of keyboard shortcuts.
• Spectrogram view mode for visualizing and selecting frequencies.
• Real-time preview of LADSPA, LV2, VST and Audio Unit (macOS) effects.

Advantages

• First and most important is the cost, it’s free of cost.
• It is an open-source platform.
• Compatible with multiple operating systems.
• It requires less storage space.

Limitations

• It doesn’t support VST  audio effect plugins.
• It does not natively import or export WMA, AAC, AC3 or most other proprietary or restricted file formats.

Audacity helps the career option like working for a movie or TV production, editing songs for a music group, workings as a DJ and a lot more professions involving sound. Due to free of costs it is too popular among the music lover and creator all over the world. Overall the unique features made it outstanding.