A free audio editor Audacity 3.0.0 is now available, providing tools for editing audio files (Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MP3 and WAV), recording and digitizing audio, changing audio file parameters, overlaying tracks and applying effects (e.g. noise reduction, changing tempo and tone). The Audacity code is distributed under the GPL license, binary builds are available for Linux, Windows and macOS.
Key improvements:
- A new format for saving projects is proposed - ".aup3". Unlike the previously used format, all project components are now saved in one file, without separation into data files and a file with project parameters (such a separation led to incidents when only the .aup file was copied and the data was forgotten to be transferred). The new .aup3 format is a database in SQLite3 format containing all resources.
- The Noise Gate effect has been improved, now allowing attack times down to 1ms and providing separate Attack, Hold and Decay settings.
- A new Label Sounds analyzer has been added that allows you to mark places with sound and silence. Label Sounds has replaced the Sound Finder and Silence Finder analyzers.
- Added default directory settings.
- Added support for import and export of macros, as well as the ability to use comments in macros.
- Added settings to change behavior when editing.
- Support for using the default Multi-view view has been implemented for tracks.
- The ability to repeat the last used command has been added to generators, parsers and tools.
- The command for backing up projects "File > Save Project > Backup Project" has been implemented.
Source: opennet.ru