Traverso relies heavily on keyboard shortcuts, which is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, most digital audio editors worth their salt include a plethora of customizable shortcuts to let you speed up your workflow. On the other hand, Traverso does a few baffling things.
For example, you use your mouse to position a red line on the screen. In most software, pressing the space bar would play the audio from the position of the red bar. In Traverso you have to press V on your keyboard in order to bring a blue line over to the red line, and then you can play from that position.
Traverso is still under development. The version we tested was labeled 0.41, so we'll reserve overall judgement until there's a final release. But the absolutely coolest thing about Traveso is that it runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux machines. Oh, and did we mention that it's free?
