The world's most capable
audio workstation.

Record, edit, and master your tracks with the open-source industry standard. Built for musicians, podcasters, and sound designers. Audacity is the world's most popular audio editing and recording platform.

Vocals
Backing

High Fidelity Recording

Capture audio through a microphone or mixer, or digitize recordings from other media with sample-accurate precision up to 32-bit floating point.

Deep Editing Suite

Easy editing with Cut, Copy, Paste and Delete. Unlimited sequential Undo (and Redo) in the session to go back any number of steps.

Spectral Analysis

Visualize frequencies with Spectrogram view modes. Plot Spectrum window for detailed frequency analysis and vocal isolation.

Limitless potential with
Open Plugins.

Support for LADSPA, LV2, Nyquist, VST and Audio Unit effect plugins. Nyquist effects can be easily modified in a text editor – or you can even write your own.

  • Real-time preview of LADSPA, LV2, VST and Audio Unit effects.
  • Plug-in Manager handles plug-in installation directly.
  • Write your own plugins in Nyquist.
Explore Plugin Library
VST3
Reverb Pro
Steinberg
AU
Equalizer
Apple Inc.
NY
Noise Gate
Nyquist
LV2
Compressor
Calf Studio

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