Audacity is one of the best open source applications for recording and editing sounds on Mac OS X. Audacity is a multi-platform application, generally made for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, but the version for Mac OS X runs natively using Cocoa and Aqua interface.

When you need to edit your favorite song to make a new ring tone in your mobile phone there is no better option from Audacity. Audacity is a free application /but you can contribute some funds to its development/. When you need just occasional edit of the sound file - Audacity will be a solution.

Audacity can directly record sounds from connected microphone or any other source of sound and it knows to import almost any possible sound format. Natively, it supports WAW, AIFF, AU, MPEG audio and Ogg Vorbis. For MP3 exports Audacity needs a help from the external MP 3 library, but it is really very easy task to accomplish. As a nice feature, it can work with RAW audio files, but it takes more time to work with such file.Audacity knows basic editing feature for sound files, but you can do even more. Cutting, copying, pasting, these are just the basic editing features of Audacity. And Audacity knows them to make very fast. Audacity will help you to identify the best places inside your favorite song and to cut them out to make your own MP3 ring tone really fast.

In case you are not satisfied with the sound Audacity can apply a wide range of effects. A lof of effects is built inside Audacity, but you can install your own ones as well, including VST plugins which are an industry standard.

In case you need to record or edit sound - nothing better than Audacity can be found.

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