Soundfile Editors & Utilities
- General Audio Editors
- Audacity cross-platform soundfile editor with many nice features
- AudioCutter Cinema "audio processing for the more sophisticated demandings"
- DAP Richard Kent's digital audio editor/processor with XForms GUI
- Eisenkraut audio editor with playback via SuperCollider3
- GLAME audio processor and sound editor
- GNoise a new soundfile editor, can handle very large files
- GNUsound sound editor with support for multiple tracks and 8, 16, or 24/32-bit samples
- JaWavedit WAV file editor written in Java
- Jokosher multi-track non-linear audio editor, requires Python
- KWave a very good soundfile editor for KDE by Martin Wilz
- Lamp the Linux Audio Mangling Project soundfile editor
- LAoE Olivier Gäumann's "Layer-based AudiO Editor", requires Java2
- Marlin a sample editor for GNOME
- MiXViews soundfile editor + analysis/synthesis engine
- Nightingale a simple soundfile editor, especially useful for cutting up large WAV files
- ReZound is a "... graphical audio file editor primarily for but not limited to the Linux operating system"
- Snd
- Snd one of the most powerful audio editors available for Linux
- Snd Configuration Scheme code to customize Snd
- Snd-ls a version of Snd for those of us who "don't know Scheme very well"
- Snd-RT realtime audio extensions for Snd
- SndBite is an "audio editor designed for breaking large recordings into smaller components"
- Snuggles curses-based WAV/MP3 editor
- Studio excellent editor, requires Tcl/Tk
- Swami excellent new incarnation of the Smurf Soundfont editor
- Sweep a new soundfile editor from Conrad Parker
- TAON The Art Of Noise very nice soundfile editor
- WaveMixer easy-to-use multitrack wave editor, from Raoul Hecky & Friends
- WaveForge attempting a SoundForge clone for Linux
- WaveSurfer a new soundfile editor, requires the Snack extensions
- WaveTools a suite of small command-line programs for working with WAV-format soundfiles
- Xforge a new soundfile editor project for X11 and Motif/LessTif
- XS a soundfile editor using Tcl and the Snack extensions
- XWave good basic editor, a patch to add looping can be found at the same site
- aPcStudio soundfile editor/processor with FLTK GUI
- ecawave soundfile editor from Kai Vehmanen, author of ecasound
- mhWaveEdit soundfile editor from Magnus Hjorth
- mpgedit MPEG audio file editor, processes constant bit rate (CBR) and variable bit rate (VBR) encoded files
- quelcom command-line utilities for editing WAV/MP3 files
- sfubar-3 command-line SoundFont2/WAV/AIFF editor, from Ben Collver
- soniK soundfile editor/recorder for KDE
- wavedit old, very basic and limited editor, console-mode only
- A/V Editors
- Blender the premier open-source 3D animation renderer now supports audio tracks
- Broadcast 2000 the only free non-linear realtime audio/video editing system for Linux; NB: Adam Williams has pulled this software from the SourceForge site, but it is still available from Eric Smith's Broadcast2000 Page
- Cinelerra the impressive successor to Broadcast2000
- Linux Audio/Video Tools a suite of programs to record/playback audio and video under Linux using the Iomega Buz
- MainActor commercial non-linear video/multimedia editing suite
- transcode very interesting audio/video stream processing utility, from Dr. Thomas Östreich
- Utilities
- Beat Monkey calculates soundfile BPM and sample frames
- Sample Calculators very useful on-line calculators for time-stretching, pitch-shifting, and transposing samples
- Wavelength repairs erroneous data length entry in WAV file header
- WavSplit a utility for (surprise!) splitting WAV files according to a list of time values
- abrowse nice utility for reading and converting AKAI S1000/3000 sample CDs
- basef utility for manipulating parameters found in AIFF soundfile header
- jWave set of packages for Java to create and process RIFF (WAV) files
- mirage-disk a utility for copying the samples from Ensoniq Mirage diskettes, from Jean Zundel
- shntool multi-purpose WAV processing and reporting utility
- wavbreaker/wavmerge GUI utilities to break or merge WAV file
- wavcut is a "...short C program for cutting parts from WAV sound files", from Stefan Ondrejicka
- Denoising
- Gnome Wave Cleaner denoise, dehiss and amplify CD-quality WAV files
- GramoFile a program to clean gramophone recordings for transfer to CD
- GWC-lib the GNOME Wave Cleaner is now a library !
- declick Joachim Schurig's "dynamic digital declicker for audio files"
- dnr denoising utility from Matti Koskinen
- tkdnoise nice Tcl/Tk GUI for the Csound dnoise utility, from Hudson Lacerda
- Normalizing
- Xpand nice Python/Glade GUI for dynamics compression/expansion, requires SoX and normalize
- calcamp calculates what factor a sample needs for amplification to maximum volume (requires libsndfile)
- normalize "a WAV file volume normalizer"
- wavnorm utility to normalize 16-bit stereo WAV files