We've tested the most popular options to help you choose the best audio editing software. And if you've got a Mac. Really well for some people—hence the endless 'X is the best and Y is.

Acoustica Mixcraft Audio Editor. This editor is one of our favorite Audio editors available in the market. It Offers multi- channel audio editing which results in an great workspace for proper mixing and editing of multiple audio files in creating a single musical masterpeice. It is available for $24.95 and you can also download the trial version to give it a shot below. 8. PreSonus Studio One.

In the midrange, there's Adobe Premiere Elements, which is cross-platform between Macs and PCs, and offers a lot more features and lots of help with creating effects. Professionals and prosumers have powerful, though pricey options in. Final Cut is a deceptively simple application that resembles iMovie in its interface and ease of use, but it offers massively deep capabilities, and many third-party apps integrate with it for even more power. It also makes excellent use of the Touch Bar on the latest MacBook Pro, as shown in photo above. Premiere Pro uses a more traditional timeline and adds a large ecosystem of companion apps and plug-ins.

The app supports a huge number of filetypes including.MP3,.WAV,.FLAC and.WMA. It also supports videos formats like.WMV and the.MKV container, and raw sound files in the form of.PCM among others. OcenAudio also has one rather unique feature you won’t find in other sound editors – a multi-selection tool, which (using CMD+click) allows you to select multiple portions of the waveform at once. There’s also Virtual Studio Technology makes music production easier than ever, and these free VST plugins are the best of the best., a range of effects, a fully featured spectogram and the ability to edit very large files without kissing goodbye to all of your Mac’s memory. ($19.99) Three down and we’re already out of free options, but at least TwistedWave Lite is fairly inexpensive at only $20. This lightweight version of ($80) is only available through the Mac App Store and withholds advanced functions such as automatic silence detection, time stretching, pitch shifting and support for more obscure formats like.FLAC,.OGG,.WMA and video files. That said there’s still a big visual waveform to play with, effects like amplify and normalize to apply and the ability to record from Apple’s own Audio Unit plugins.

As is often the case, our Editors' Choice, CyberLink PowerDirector was the first product in this group to offer support for this new kind of video media. Other programs have jumped on board with 360 VR support, including Adobe Premiere, Apple Final Cut Pro X, and Magix Movie Edit Pro. Support varies, with some apps including 360-compatible titles, stabilization, and motion tracking.

It supports VSTs but doesn’t come with any. If you want to apply effects you’ll need your own. There are loads of great analysis tools and volume automation is easy. It’s very basic and doesn’t look great. But if you just want to get the job done without downloading a huge application, it’s perfect. Link: Soundation (web app) This is a great online application that also functions as a multi-track DAW. Adobe video editing for mac.

It’s like none of these editors had someone thinking “What would be the best keyboard-shortcuts or mouse-options to do this with? What would be the easiest, and fastest operating user interface for this option?” Funny how nobody mentions Sonic Foundry’s Sound Forge, GoldWave or Cool Edit as historic legends in that aspect. I still use older free copies of those, they work just fine in Windows 7 x64. Especially fairly recent Sony Sound Forge has a still unmatched UI! I have tried and used them all, mostly professionally, but also for home/studio/radio work. Sound Forge beats them all in logical thinking, and it makes the work so much more pleasant to do. I always seem to run back to Sound Forge, no matter what I try on other bulky editors with strange quirks or weird looking interfaces, SF does it faster, you can customize literally everything of it (also colors/sizes) and seems more lightweight, even though its disk-footprint definitely is not, it uses RAM way more efficiently than others.