Top Alternatives to Free Audio Editor

Audacity is a free opensource audio editor utility which also cross platform.

Ardour is a hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation application.

Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro) is a digital audio workstation from Adobe Systems featuring both a multitrack, non-destructive mix/edit environment and a destructive-approach waveform editing view.

Sony Sound Forge (Sonic Foundry Sound Forge) is a digital audio editing suite aimed at the professional and semi-professional markets.

Pro Tools redefined the music, film, and TV industry, providing everything you need to compose, record, edit, and mix music and audio.

WAVOSAUR is a free audio editor for Windows with VST plugins support. The program is ASIO compatible, can do loop points edition, auto-trim, noise removal.

WavePad works as a wav or mp3 editor, but it also supports a number of other file formats including vox, gsm, wma, real audio, au, aif, flac, ogg, and more.

Jokosher is a free software, nonlinear multi-track digital audio editor, which is released under the GNU GPL. It is being developed in Python, using the GTK+ interface and GStreamer as an audio back-end.

Magix Music Maker is a digital music editor software.

Nero Wave Editor is a basic yet powerful audio editor.

WaveShop is a free, open-source audio editor.

Frinika is a free, complete music workstation software.