

It also has some disadvantages such as the need to download another program called LAME in order to create MP3 files, as it only saves on. However, not everyone is a fan of this program. You can also adjust volume of tracks, as well as add music and other sound effects. It does not have time limit and editing is also simple. It also does not require registration so you can download, install and use it immediately. There’s no need to spend anything on expensive applications to record and edit sounds. One of the good things about this program is that it is free. Learn more about it with this Audacity review. ¹ Here’s a link to the archived version of the FAQ concurrent with this writing, and a link to current version.Audacity is an open source and cross platform application for editing and recording audio. In fact, working with uncompressed data such as RAW images and video is one of the selling points Apple is emphasizing in its promotion of these new iPads, and companies such as Adobe have promised to deliver iPad versions of some of their pro creative apps. Storage, too, is no longer an issue: the highest-end M1 iPad configurations include terabytes of storage. However, Audacity in principle does support a tablet PC running Windows (including Microsoft's "Surface with Windows 8 Pro" tablet)…Īs of 2021, some new iPads and Macs now share the same Apple Silicon M1 processor so, according to the FAQ answer above, there should no longer be a performance obstacle-iPad should now be more akin to the Windows tablet PC situation mentioned above. Therefore, considerable rewriting of Audacity and its interface will be required before Audacity will work on portable music players like iPod, smartphones like iPhone, tablet computers like iPad or any of the Nexus devices running Android. Also the wxWidgets interface library we use only has limited support for mobile operating systems and small screen resolutions. This requires more processing power and disk space than is available on most mobile devices. However, there is new reason to hope for Audacity on iPad: it appears the technical obstacles cited by the Audacity team for the lack of iPad support are disappearing.Īs of this writing (April 2021), the Audacity FAQ includes the following:¹Ĭurrent versions of Audacity work internally with uncompressed audio to permit high quality editing with a wide range of effects. Also, some would not agree a proprietary product-especially one requiring payment to unlock all features-is actually an “equivalent” to open-source Audacity.

I haven’t found another suitable alternative. The currently-accepted answer, WavePad, seems to be sporadically unavailable on the App Store (at least in some regions).
