Audacity Audio File Editor

Today's post is about a fantastic open source software used for audio editing. I came across this software while completing a school project earlier this year. It is feature packed, and enables multiple track recording and mixing, full audio file editing, so you can cut out pauses, or the ums and ahs we all use in speech. The best part is that your output file can be opened or saved in either .mp3 format or .wav format.

Some of the other features it offers is changing the pitch, or tempo of an audio file. This is useful, for example, if you are learning a piece, and want to slow it down to hear everything without changing the pitch. Transposing is useful if you want to change the pitch of a piece of music because it may be out of your vocal range.

Some of the fun stuff includes adding echo, and gradual fade in and out, phaser, click removal and many more.

It's available for download for all platforms here: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/

My rating: 4.5 stars out of 5!