Audacity AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Digital Audio Workstations

The best Digital Audio Workstation alternative to Audacity is REAPER. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try TwistedWave or Cakewalk. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Audacity and 18 are Digital Audio Workstations so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Digital Audio Workstation alternatives to Audacity are DaVinci Resolve Fairlight, Wavacity, Sneedacity and Soundop.

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  1. REAPER icon
     255 likes

    A digital audio workstation, MIDI sequencer and video editing software application created by Cockos. The current version is available for Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux.

    84 REAPER alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
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    Comments about REAPER as an Alternative to Audacity
    Guest
    Positive
    1

    Reaper, while beeing less ressource hungry (totaling to about 15mb portable/installed) has everything you need to start recording and mixing music.

    The only thing 'missing' would be sound librarbies to use with MIDI, which most people order seperately for specific content.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    REAPER icon
    REAPER icon
    • REAPER is Paid and ProprietaryAudacity is Free and Open Source
    • REAPER is CustomizableAudacity is not according to our users
  2. TwistedWave icon
     16 likes

    TwistedWave is a very easy to use and powerful audio editor.

    It supports Audio Unit plug-ins and many file formats, including wav, aiff, caf, mp3, mp4, FLAC, Ogg/Vorbis and ambisonic sound files.

    Good multichannel support. TwistedWave lets you easily add, remove or reorder chan.

    46 TwistedWave alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Online
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
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    Comments about TwistedWave as an Alternative to Audacity
    Guest
    Negative
    -6

    you have to have a pre made file

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    TwistedWave icon
    TwistedWave icon
    • TwistedWave is Freemium and ProprietaryAudacity is Free and Open Source
  3. Cakewalk icon
     75 likes

    Cakewalk, formerly SONAR, is a comprehensive audio software for music composition, audio recording, editing, mixing and mastering. It features a full suite of high quality audio and MIDI effects and instruments and composition tools ranging from drum sequencer and piano roll...

    116 Cakewalk alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. Every track includes real time equalization and dynamics processing to sweeten and fine tune your mix. This is in addition to your six real time track effects, making Fairlight far more powerful than other digital audio workstation software!

    13 DaVinci Resolve Fairlight alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Sneedacity icon
     5 likes

    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.

    106 Sneedacity alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Comments about Sneedacity as an Alternative to Audacity
    stevetf
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    Another dead fork of Audacity.

    Sneedacity icon
    Sneedacity icon
    • Sneedacity is Free and Open SourceAudacity is also Free and Open Source
    • Sneedacity is Privacy focusedAudacity is not according to our users
  6. Soundop icon
     2 likes

    Soundop is a Windows-based audio editing software with features for recording, editing, mastering, and mixing audio. It offers waveform and spectral editing, and supports unlimited audio and bus tracks.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. AudioMass icon
     13 likes

    AudioMass 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  8. Zynewave Podium icon
     12 likes

    Podium is a modern digital audio workstation (DAW) for Windows. It supports recording and editing of audio and MIDI, and hosts VST instrument and effect plugins.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. WaveShop icon
     20 likes

    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

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
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