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

On 5/29/25 06:02, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
> 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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I'd have to say, Audacity/Tenacity are probably the best bet. Some other 
editors that are FLOSS I can think of are snd and sonic-visualizer. To 
be honest, I really enjoy using sonic-visualizer for its analysis 
capabilities, but you can use its vamp plugins for audio processing as 
well.

I think when it comes to editing, even though a DAW can do a lot more 
than just edit audio, a DAW is what I've seen others use. I totally 
agree that for editing audio a quick dedicated editor would be faster 
and more efficient. When I go to use schismtracker, for instance, I 
would love to just have a fast sample editor, but I tend to open the 
sample in renoise (not floss) as its editor is amazing. That also 
reminds me: Openmpt is FLOSS that can edit audio with ease. In music 
tracking, samples are typically the only thing you can use, so modern 
trackers tend to have good audio editors. The only catch is Openmpt is 
tied to a windows gui library, so you will have to run it with wine (not 
a problem though, it runs great in it!)

Let me know what you think (also at home for LAC. I wish it wasn't the 
case!)
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