Best Audio Editor Pc

[James Talbot]

Youcan use most of the best audio editors to create an auto-tune effect in your songs. Find out how to replicate the popular music production technique in our guide How to use auto-tune in your favorite audio editors

Audio editors help you cut and manage sound files for music production, marketing assets, podcasting, and more. But which is the top tool? We tested out software from Adobe, Audacity, Apple and more to find out.

It's all about audio. Podcasts, streaming, wireless earbuds and over-sized headphones, those catchy jingles that get stuck in your head - so many of our experiences are centered around audio, the soundtrack of our lives on a loop in the background. But it also means listeners have high expectations, and a crisp listening experience. And that's where the best audio editors enter into the workflow, with professional-grade audio production tools and seamless editing experiences that help you get the sound just right.

We tested a range of the best free audio editors and paid software across for Windows and Mac to find out which ones stand out and which ones will slip into your production workflow. During our review, we've explored usability for a range of skill-levels, compared additional tools and sound libraries. We also checked platform compatibility and pricing to uncover which audio editors offer the best value.

To achieve this, Audition provides all the normal live recording editing, analysis and effects functions. Then it adds a remarkable slate of fixing polishing and delivery tools. Easy render-less video sharing with Adobe Premiere Pro makes video-sound editing a doddle.

With Audacity 3.,2, the updated software lets you edit non-destructively, including lengthening and shortening clips that, when pasted, still contain the hidden ends, making it way more flexible than before. It also introduces audio.com, a sound-sharing platform for sharing audio and reaching new audiences.

Sound editing features cover all the basics. There are also useful dedicated tools for joining individual sound files like normalize and for editing, like split by pause, which is very useful for long form spoken word creatives.

In addition to all of that, advanced organization tools will keep your files spick and span. But we really liked the ability to design and print your own cover art without the need for separate graphic design software.

Proving to be one of the best audio editors for beginners and veterans, Cyberlink AudioDirector is packed with all the recording, editing, mixing, and clean-up tools you need to produce professional-level sounds.

Since its release in 2004, Apple GarageBand has earned a world class reputation for its multi-featured yet accessible audio editing software. With MIDI capability and powerful presets, it lets anyone create original music from composition to post-production.

GarageBand is free for iPhone and iPad and comes bundled with every new Mac. That gives it serious utility and flexibility for cross-platform content creators in the Apple ecosystem. An added app, Logic Remote, allows you to control GarageBand on your Mac from a remote device.

One of the best audio editors on the market, this is a supremely accessible and surprisingly powerful tool that will appeal to video content creatives and podcasters looking for easy recording and/or import, and a smooth workflow and export to MP4 air any other of multiple options. The software manages to condense the major elements of sound and especially speech editing into a sparse and customizable good looking desktop.

However, WavePad lacks some important features of a musical workstation, such as multi-track recording and a mixer. It does feature other amazing editing tools though, like batch convert and batch join, as well as decent recording capability with lots of input formats. The app also has plenty of voice changing and improvement tools and you can easily insert silence between waveforms, which is great for lectures or normalizing environments during presentations. The potential applications go on and on.

If you want to edit, improve and then move large amounts of media, including voiceover, podcasting, and assembling content for business as most businesses do more and more, WavePad has got you covered.

Determine your budget. Pro-grade audio editing software like Adobe Audition comes with that on-going subscription, while others, like music software Ashampoo Music Studio have a one-off fee. Making edits to your audio can easily be done on a budget with a music editor like Audacity delivering powerful audio editing capabilities for free.

If you do not maintain file versioning as part of the file names, you can just edit files in the Audio folder without changing their names, making sure that any edits done to the files within Cubase have been frozen beforehand. Cubase will just use the RX3 edited files as is. RX3 will not open .w64 files, only the .wav ones.

yes Greg that was a great feature ,i used to use this to work in cool edit pro before moving to wavelab . it would be great if it could be reintroduced in some form ,maybe the same way it exists in Halion 5 ?

Yes, Logic, Reaper, Studio One and Live all have the option to edit your audio very neatly in an external editor, Cubase should have this feature also. Or massively expand the internal editors capabilites, but to reach the level of Izotope RX is unlikley that it can be done, and would also add bloat to folks who dont need an advanced editor.

wow - just discovered this. Steinberg, you need to get your act together. As a pro sound designer in the games industry, I want desperately to like Cubase, but things like this just keep getting in the way.

Being able to hook directly to an external sound editor like Sound Forge and Cubase recognise that the file has been updated, is an ABSOLUTE ESSENTIAL feature.

Unbelievable.

If you notice, the parts go from the coarsest at the start, to the finest at the end, so that a raw file listing, sorted by name, will show all the files for one track by code, then instrument, then record date, then edit date.

Such regular formats make it easier to use scripts fies, like vbscript or jscript, to process tracks. I just wish the project files were XML, so that I could automatically update then with the externally edited track versions names.

Hi all, In my work I frequently divide long audio files (2+ hours 24/96) into multiple regions (hundreds), export them to files then batch process/convert them. Soundforge has been my go-to Windows program to achieve this but the Mac version is unusable and the latest updates haven't helped. Adobe Audition doesn't appear to be able to accomplish this either (gosh, Cool Edit was so much cooler). I'm about to try Wavelab but want to ask if anyone has a recommendation for a program to accomplish a fairly routine audio editing job. Thanks for your time, Jon

I think Wavelab is going to be your best hope. And yes, Cool Edit was way ahead of it's time, one of the only programs that could take raw audio data and let the user experiment with adding Big/Little Endian headers to make the file usable.

Thanks, Reaper can do region export and batch processing but not elegantly so I ended up upgrading to SF 2.5 and am happy to report that it now runs pretty well on my imac and includes a batch processor. Not quite the Win version but now that it runs it's the best out there for mac imo. Jon

I am just curious as to why Logic couldn't serve as a suitable replacement? I don't know soundforge but someone recently asked me the same question and I told them to use Logic- was that incorrect advice? He is a Mac user.

If you've never used a dedicated audio editor a description of what they can do might be pointless... while Logic contains an audio editor it quickly fades in comparison to a highly developed audio editor that has many more advanced functions and makes a far better mastering/editing tool than a multitrack MIDI/Audio recorder. Jon mentioned "batch processing" and "conversion" in his original post.

Example.. one could program a conversion from Wav to Mp3 included with the conversion could be a set Compression/EQ/Reverb (all different plugins) to be performed on let's say a group of 400 files. To the original poster a batch editing tool is necessary.

Plus, a Stereo two-track editor that's designed for audio editing is so much faster and easier to use. I've used Logic since version 2.5 and while it's audio editor is quite decent I would choose not to use it unless I had to. A dedicated audio editor is much easier to master with (at least for me).

Exactly, I cut word tokens from 2 hour long 24/96 recordings and can have anywhere up to 850 individual files which then need to be converted to 24/44 wav, 256kbps mp3 and 32 kbps mp3. Soundforge is so slick at creating and exporting regions for batch processing - click/drag to select, hit R to make a region then rename.Rinse and repeat until my hand falls off. I'm happy they seem to have it working albeit without some bells and whistles the Win version has but at least i don't have to look at an ugly Win machine all day, lol. Thanks Pan.

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