Open Source Audacity Alternatives
The best open source alternative to Audacity is WaveShop, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Audacity and 11 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Audacity are AudioMass (Free, Open Source), Radium (Paid, Open Source), Frinika (Free, Open Source) and DarkWave Studio (Free, Open Source).
- 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. View 63 alternatives to WaveShop
Discontinued
The program is no longer updated. Last version, 1.0.14, released in November 2013, can be still downloaded from the official website.
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
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- 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... View 107 alternatives to AudioMass
- Radium is a music editor with a new type of interface. - Compared to the normal sequencer interface editing is quicker and more musical data fits on the screen. View 58 alternatives to Radium
- Paid • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Radium vs Audacity
fernandomanuelrodrigues This is a DAW, NOT an audio editorRadium is not an audio editor but a music sequencer. Not an alternative to Audacity - Frinika is a free (licensed under GNU GPL) complete music workstation software containing sequencer, midi support, soft synthesizers, audio recorder, piano roll/tracker/notation... View 43 alternatives to Frinika
- DarkWave Studio is a free, open source, Digital Audio Workstation for Windows. View 48 alternatives to DarkWave Studio
Bundleware
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- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- EKO is a simple sound editor. View 7 alternatives to EKO (simple sound editor)
- Vsound a virtual audio loopback cable - Vsound is an application which allows you to digitally record the output of another program View 36 alternatives to vsoundNo screenshots yet
- Free • Open Source
- Linux
- Kwave is a sound editor designed for the KDE Desktop Environment. View 20 alternatives to KWave
- Fillmore is a multitrack audio recorder/editor for GNOME, based on GStreamer and Gnonlin. View 13 alternatives to Fillmore
Discontinued
github.com/yorba/media: "Fillmore and Lombard are no longer being actively maintained by Yorba."
- Free • Open Source
- Linux
- Ecasound is a software package designed for multitrack audio processing. View 30 alternatives to Ecasound