Filed under: Audio, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Shareware, Freeware
Audacity and Reaper provide free and cheap audio editing
by Brad Linder Jul 11th 2007 at 4:30PM
While the last stable release of the cross-platform audio editor was version 1.2.6, the developers recently pushed out Audacity 1.3.3 beta, and it's miles ahead of the stable version. Here are just a few of the latest updates:
- Import Quicktime files in OSX (mov, aac, m4a)
- Add metadata to OGG files
- Improved export option selection
- EQ and effects improvements
- Screen capture utility
- Improved spectrogram rendering
- Selection bar improvements
- New features for label tracks
- Auto-save and crash recovery
- Collapse and expand tracks
- Multiple clips per track
The latest version of Reaper is version 1.875. And unlike Audacity, it features controls that should be familiar to anyone who has used Pro Tools, Adobe Audition, or other popular (and expensive) audio editing applications. There's a mixer window in the bottom, volume, pan, and effects editing in the playlist, and the ability to edit in ripple mode (delete a section, and the rest of the project will shift to the left).
Here are some of the updates in Reaper 1.875, released this week:
Here are some of the updates in Reaper 1.875, released this week:
- Added an option to prevent projects from overriding device sample rate.
- Added scrollbar skinning
- Click and drag tracks by their labels
- Improved drawing of collapsed tracks
- Quicker scanning of already scanned VST plugins
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
someaudioguy said 4:50PM on 7-11-2007
I can totally back up Audacity. Just the fact that it plays equally well between Mac and PC makes it worth it's weight in gold.
Haven't tried Reaper yet...
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Trevor said 5:40PM on 7-11-2007
"Not quite as full featured as Pro Tools..." That's an understatement :)
Another worth looking at is GoldWave. It's not very well suited to recording, but if you want to cut up and edit your existing mp3s, it's much easier than dealing with Audacity.
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Mike J said 9:09AM on 7-12-2007
Along the lines of Reaper is Krystal : http://www.kreatives.org/kristal/ .
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hazard said 10:18AM on 7-12-2007
Repear's a great download .. nice one :)
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Brad Linder said 10:19AM on 7-12-2007
Yeah, we'd covered Reaper before, but not since the 1.05 release. And to be honest I was never that impressed with it before. It had potential, but it was a far cry from more polished audio editors.
But after seeing that Audacity was updated, I decided to take Reaper 1.875 for a spin, and I'm almost convinced I should stop using my (very) old copy of Cool Edit.
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Yayaja said 11:46AM on 7-12-2007
I was looking for something EXACTLY like this for months! I have never heard of audacity OR reaper, Thanks download squad!!!!
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ch0gan said 12:12PM on 8-01-2007
There's another free DAW called Traverso which looks interesting, though I've never tried it.
http://traverso-daw.org/
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leonbrown said 9:20AM on 9-29-2007
good
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