[LAD] FLOSS Audio editors on Linux: are they all dead(-ish)?

Lorenzo Sutton <[email protected]> Thu, 29 May 2025 12:02:17 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.audio.devel,gmane.linux.audio.users
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi LAU and LAD,

It seems that (FLOSS) audio editors (not DAWs) are all either 
dead/obsolate (mhwaveditor, rezound), in strange development states 
(Audacity, Tenacity).
Tenacity, the most promising (albeit with its audacity-inherited 
idiosyncrasies) has a really annoying bug [1] which makes it take ages 
to load [1] - IMHO a no go for an audio editor IMHO (plus its 
multi-track-ness like Audacity makes it overload for a few use cases).

The only more-or-less usable one at the moment is ocenaudio which is not 
free software (and also has some UI quirks, but that's maybe personal).

I've been a fan of mhWaveEdit for its mix of simplicity and 
configurability, but as an abandoned GTK2 application it shows its problems.

Is this kind of software not interesting any more? Are people using DAWs 
for everything?

Are people even using, or interested / committed in using Linux Audio 
any more?

As LAC approaches (unfortunately I won't be able to attend, even though 
it's in Europe), why not try to spark some debate :-P

Lorenzo

[1] https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity/issues/549
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