A digital audio editor is a computer application for audio editing, i.e. manipulating digital audio. Editors designed for use with music allow the user to do the following: Application software is a subclass of computer software that employs the capabilities of a computer directly and thoroughly to a task that the user wishes to perform. ... Audio editing is the process of taking recorded sound and changing it directly on the recording medium (analog) or in RAM (digital). ... Digital audio comprises audio signals stored in a digital format. ...

• Record audio from one or more inputs and store recordings in the computer's memory as digital audio

• Edit the start time, stop time, and duration of any sound on the audio timeline

• Mix multiple sound sources/tracks, combine them at various volume levels and pan from channel to channel to one or more output tracks

• Apply simple or advanced effects or filters, including compression, expansion, flanging, reverb, audio noise reduction and equalization to change the audio

• Playback sound (often after being mixed) that can be sent to one or more outputs, such as speakers, additional processors, or a recording medium

• Conversion between different audio file formats, or between different sound quality levels

Typically these tasks can be performed in a manner that is both non-linear and non-destructive. Input3 is the term denoting either an entrance or changes which are inserted into a system and which activate/modify a process. ... Digital audio comprises audio signals stored in a digital format. ... An audio filter is a type of filter used for processing sound signals. ... Audio level compression, also called dynamic range compression, volume compression, compression, limiting, or DRC (often seen in DVD player settings) is a process that manipulates the dynamic range of an audio signal. ... Flanging is a time-based audio effect that occurs when two identical signals are mixed together, but with one signal time-delayed by a small and gradually changing amount, usually smaller than 20 ms (milliseconds). ... When sound is produced in an enclosed space multiple reflections build up and blend together creating reverberation or reverb. ... It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. ... For information about Canadas fiscal transfer system, see Equalization payments. ... Output is the term denoting either an exit or changes which exits a system and which activate/modify a process. ... An audio file format is a container format for storing audio data on a computer system. ...

Editors designed for use in speech research add the ability to make measurements and perform acoustic analyses such as extracting and displaying a fundamental frequency contour or spectrogram. They typically lack most or all of the effects of interest to musicians. Vibration and standing waves in a string, The fundamental and the first 6 overtones The fundamental tone, often referred to simply as the fundamental and abbreviated fo, is the lowest frequency in a harmonic series. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with periodogram. ...

Table of audio editor software

An operating system (OS) is the software that manages the sharing of the resources of a computer and provides programmers with an interface used to access those resources. ... Free software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions only to ensure that further recipients can also do these things. ... Acoustica is a 2001 unplugged album by German heavy metal band Scorpions. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Paul Davis is best known for his work on audio software for the linux operating system, and for his role as one of the first two programmers at Amazon. ... This article is about the audio software. ... Dominic Mazzoni is the creator of the Audacity audio editor. ... Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro) is a digital audio editor computer program from Adobe Systems featuring both a multitrack, non-destructive mix/edit environment and a destructive-approach waveform editing view. ... Adobe Systems (pronounced a-DOE-bee IPA: ) (NASDAQ: ADBE) (LSE: ABS) is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. Adobe was founded in December 1982[1] by John Warnock and Charles Geschke, who established the company after leaving Xerox PARC in order to develop and sell... Adobe Audition is a digital audio editor computer program from Adobe Systems. ... Peak is a full-featured professional stereo sample editor for the Macintosh computing platform. ... For other senses of this word, see bias (disambiguation). ... Creative Technology Limited (SGX: C76, NASDAQ: CREAF) is a listed manufacturer of computer multimedia products based in Singapore where the firm was initially founded by Sim Wong Hoo (born 1957) on July 1, 1981. ... Fast Edit is a Audio Editor from Minnetonka Audio. ... Rogue Amoeba Software, LLC is a Macintosh software company that produces audio software, specializing in applications for audio capture. ... FlexiMusic Wave Editor is a digital audio editor computer program from FlexiMusic for professionals and home users for Microsoft Windows. ... GoldWave is a feature-rich commercial digital audio editing software developed by GoldWave Inc. ... Jokosher is a free, non-linear multi-track audio editor, the source code of which is released under the GNU GPL. It is being developed in Python, using GStreamer as an audio back-end, for the Linux operating system; although future versions may have ports to other operating systems. ... NU-Tech is a DSP platform to validate and real-time debug complex algorithms, simply relying on a common PC. It is based on a typical plugin architecture and thanks to a free SDK the developer can write his own plugin (aka NUTSs = NU-Tech Satellites) in C++. NUTSs are... The term Freeware refers to gratis proprietary software with closed source. ... A Software Development Kit, or SDK for short, is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, operating system or similar. ... Description ReZound is an audio editor primarily for, but not limited to, the Linux operating system. ... Sony Sound Forge, formerly known as Sonic Foundry Sound Forge, is a digital audio editing and creation suite aimed at the professional as well as the semi-professional market. ... Sony Corporation ) is a Japanese multinational corporation and one of the worlds largest media conglomerates with revenue of $66. ... Adobe Soundbooth is a digital audio editor by Adobe Systems for Mac OS X and Windows XP. Adobe has described it as being in the spirit of Sound Edit 16 and Cool Edit 2000. Due to Intel-specific code, Adobe has stated that the Macintosh version will only be available... Renewal of the surface coating of an adobe wall in Chamisal, New Mexico Adobe is a natural building material composed of sand, sandy clay and straw or other organic materials, which is shaped into bricks using wooden frames and dried in the sun. ... Categories: Computer stubs | Free audio software ... Total Recorder is digital audio editor software, which is able to record any sound coming through a computer soundcard. ... An editor has expressed a concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy the notability guideline or one of the following guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: Biographies, Books, Companies, Fiction, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Web content, or several proposals for new guidelines. ... Steinberg is a German musical equipment and software company. ... Wavosaur is an free audio tool for Windows. ... The term Freeware refers to gratis proprietary software with closed source. ... The term Freeware refers to gratis proprietary software with closed source. ... Wavesurfer is an audio editor widely used for studies of acoustic phonetics. ... The Royal Institute of Technology or Kungliga tekniska högskolan (KTH) is a university in Stockholm, Sweden. ...

See also

• Audio processing
• Digital audio workstation
• Music sequencer
• Software synthesizer
• Free audio software