Star Meet Audacity, the "Gimp of Audio"
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 7th Jun 2002 19:42 UTC
Multimedia, AV Audacity is a multitrack/recording free audio editor. It started a few years back as a simple sound editor, but since then it has evolved in a powerfull modern editor, by supporting multi-track recording. The stable 1.0 version was released only a few days ago.
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Re: Not Reason - SoundForge/Wavelab/Peak
by Eugenia on Fri 7th Jun 2002 23:14 UTC

Yes, CoolEdit Pro is much superior to Audacity. This is absolutely true.

But last time I checked, Cool Edit Pro cost $249, while the CoolEdit 2000, which costs $69, does not support multitrack by default!! Neither it suppors VSTs.

So, for the buck ($0), Audacity is a good tool. Not the best by a long shot, but still a good free tool that you can download for almost any OS.

And yes, it is also true, Linux does not have superior multimedia applications of any kind. It is getting better, but even BeOS used to have more advanced audio apps. This is kinda normal though, because the applications mostly released for Linux, are in the server or development field.