Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. I have been used it for a month and i’m very happy with it because it is very simple, the interface is user friendly and you can cut, crop, trim or mix your music without any knowledge in music editor.

Audacity 1.3.3 Beta New Features

Opening/saving formats
Import
* Import of audio from QuickTime (mov, aac, m4a) files now supported on OSX.
* Broadcast Wave Format (BWF) wave files can now be imported.

Export
* Metadata can be added to OGG files.
* Improved Export option selection.
* Additional export options added to MP3 and FLAC file formats.
* Command line exporter now supported on Windows and OSX.

Effects
EQ effect

* Responsiveness improved.
* Several enhancements added.
* Batch support added.

New Auto Duck effect
Added previewing to AudioUnit effects.
Much improved Noise Removal effect
Effects previewing can now be canceled.
New DTMF Tone Generator effect
Additional options available in Noise effect.
Improved the Tone Generation effects.
Other features
New built-in screen capture utility
Major speed improvement in Spectrogram rendering
Increased support for drag and drop on OSX.
Support added for building against wxWidgets 2.8.x.
Can now open multiple Audacity Projects at once from Explorer on Windows.
Improved main window sliders.
New support for snapping while selecting and sliding
Improved track focus handling and visual feedback.
Speed improvements and handling of resizing/zooming in tracks
Spectrum view can now be zoomed.
New internal file cache to improve handling of project files over networks

Audacity Website
Download Audacity 1.3.3 Beta

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007 at 9:43 pm | by Neezar |