Anything better than Audacity?

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Audacity doesn't support high-DPI scaling.

I still use it, though :D
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RichieWitch wrote:Why not Tracktion 5? It's a great full-featured DAW and it's free.
I've always found it's audio editing pretty lousy, personally wouldn't dream of using it for dedicated audio editing jobs. Great for composition, just not for this task IMO.

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Free for Mac? I think beside Audacity the best you can get is ocenaudio or Wavepad.
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I often clean noise from field recordings; the RX workflow gives a lot of detailed control, its fun, and you can do much more, eg filter harmonics. Some people like the new Acustica 7, now in Mac.
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Russell Grand wrote:Personally, I love ocenaudio!

https://www.ocenaudio.com/

I use Audacity too, but ocenaudio just looks and feels more like a commercial audio editor.
I think the 2 compliment each other well actually.
interesting, never heard of oceanaudio before. thanks for the hint!
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Ocenaudio is quite nice. Maybe not as deep as Audacity but for basic editing it's more pleasing for the eye.

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Distorted Horizon wrote:Ocenaudio is quite nice. Maybe not as deep as Audacity but for basic editing it's more pleasing for the eye.
...and a way more effective workflow IMO, even with reduced feature

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martinjuenke wrote:Wonder if it is worth to go beyond Audacity given the fact that it's free. Should I pay for something else? Why? Is there anything important not covered by Audacity?

My main area of usage is cleaning up self made field recordings...
I would recommend trying Wavelab 9 LE which you can get in German kiosks (you are German, right?) for 14,90 € with Keys Magazin Special Edition. I don't think it has the Cleaning Effects (Denoise, Declick) of the advanced Wavelab versions, but it supports VST plugins.

https://www.ppvmedien.de/Wavelab-LE-9-V ... -2017?gs=1

Here is the manual
http://download.steinberg.net/downloads ... b_LE_9.pdf

You could then use the plugin ReaFIR from the Reaplugs VST collection. It has great functionality for denoising and such, while Wavelab gives you all the nice features of editing audio.
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I just bought Soundforge Pro Mac in a bundle with iZotope RX Elements and Ozone Elements. Sounds really promising. Especially the RMS normalisation in Soundforge and Ozone Mastering finish brought instant improvements when testing some tracks of mine. I was really surprised.

But thanks to you all for your recommendations...

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i would recommend this: http://www.wavosaur.com
another freebie but more than adequate.

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n.m., you found something

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whatever you settle on, check here to see if it might be destructive

http://src.infinitewave.ca/

some can be really bad

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I see the OP already got Soundforge but just for future reference and others who stumble across this thread check out Accoustica. It's Mac/Win crossplatform and the premium version comes with audio restoration suite
https://acondigital.com/products/acoust ... io-editor/

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Would Reaper offer enough editing capability? It's really affordable and powerful.

For cleaning up field recordings, Izotope RX 6 is pretty amazing. The Elements version is about $100.

(Edit: I see you got a setup that's made improvements to your workflow. Awesome! Might want to check out Reaper anyway.)

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Anyone have experience of Ivosight Soundop?

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