Free Audio Tools

This is meant to be an every growing list of audio editing, converting, manipulating, and layering tools. There is a lot of free options for people on a budget. These tools will allow you to "play" with the audio from our site.

Audacity

Audacity is at the top of the list for a reason. It's a super solid, super easy to use, totally 100% free sound clip editor for both the Mac and the PC.

Audacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.

Quick List of Features

• Record live audio.
• Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
• Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files.
• Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together.
• Change the speed or pitch of a recording.

Download at Audacity.SourceForge.net

Acid Xpress

Acid Xpress is the free version of Acid a product that was developed by Sonic Foundry in the 90's and later sold to Sony for further development in 2003.

We've always been a big fan of Acid related products. They are super easy to use and very lightweight (meaning they don't hog resources) unlike similar applications.

Acid Xpress is not so much a audio editor, but more like a sound sequencer. You can load dozens of sounds into the system and then use the stage to "visually" arrange the waveforms.

Quick List of Features

• Inline MIDI editing
• Multiple events per track
• Video scoring track
• Punch-in recording
• Freehand envelope drawing
• Alternate time signature support
• Show Me How interactive tutorials
• Unlimited MP3 encodes
• ACIDplanet news and profile access
• Live audio recording
• Publish to ACIDplanet.com

Download at AcidPlanet.com (registration required)