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Audacity

No-frills audio editing that has not changed much on purpose.

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Audacity records and edits audio with a straightforward destructive workflow: noise reduction, normalisation, cutting, and exporting. For podcast cleanup, voiceover trimming, and quick format conversion it is faster than a full DAW because there is nothing to configure. It is free and open source.

Where it falls short

The interface looks dated, destructive editing means mistakes are permanent unless you keep copies, and multitrack work is awkward.

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