Ardour is a hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation application. Record, edit, and mix on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.
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- Paid
- Open Source
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- Windows
- Linux
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Adobe Audition AlternativesOnly Open Source apps categorised as Digital Audio Workstations
The best open source Digital Audio Workstation alternative to Adobe Audition is Ardour. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Bespoke Synth or Qtractor. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Adobe Audition and 12 are open source Digital Audio Workstations so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source Digital Audio Workstation alternatives to Adobe Audition are Wavacity, Sneedacity, AudioMass and Radium.
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93 Ardour alternatives
82 Bespoke Synth alternativesBespoke is a software modular synthesizer. It contains a bunch of modules, which you can connect together to create sounds.
77 Qtractor alternativesQtractor is an Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ with the Qt framework. Target platform is GNU/Linux, where the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK) for audio, and the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) for MIDI, are the main infrastructures for...
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53 Wavacity alternativesWavacity is derived from the open source Audacity and modified to run in the web browser.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Online
Sneedacity (named after Sneed's Feed and Seed from The Simpsons episode, "E-I-E-I-D'oh") is a free (libre), open source, and privacy-respecting audio recording and editing suite forked from Audacity.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
115 AudioMass alternativesAudioMass lets you record, or use your existing audio tracks, and modify them by trimming, cutting, pasting or applying a plethora of effects, from compression and paragraphic equalizers to reverb, delay and distortion fx.
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Efflux is a Progressive Web Application allowing you to create music within your browser, either on- or offline on anything from a phone to desktop machine.
DarkWave Studio is a free, open source, Digital Audio Workstation for Windows. Featuring a modular Virtual Studio, Pattern Editor, Sequence Editor and Multitrack Hard Disk Recorder. It has support for VST/VSTi instrument and effect plugins.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Alerts
- Discontinued
- Bundleware
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- Windows
WaveShop is a free, open-source audio editor for Windows XP/Vista/7. WaveShop is fast, lightweight, and bit-perfect, meaning samples aren't altered unless they need to be. Editing a portion of an audio file only affects that portion; the rest of the file is untouched.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
- PortableApps.com
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Open Octave Midi is a Linux based Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) designed to give musicians the tools needed to make composing on a computer possible, and even fun! The project is focused on orchestral and film writing and recording.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Linux
Frinika is a free (licensed under GNU GPL) complete music workstation software containing sequencer, midi support, soft synthesizers, audio recorder, piano roll/tracker/notation editing and more. The goal of Frinika is to be a complete platform for making music with your...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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