Riverside
Riverside is an all-in-one AI-powered content creation studio for recording, editing, and streaming high-quality video and audio. Designed for podcasters, marketers, and businesses, Riverside captures 4K video and lossless audio locally for every participant—ensuring crystal-clear quality even with weak connections. Its intuitive text-based editor lets users trim, clean up, and caption recordings directly from the transcript, eliminating the need for complex editing tools. With features like Magic Audio, AI Voice, and VideoDub, creators can polish sound, fix mistakes, and sync lips with AI-generated speech in seconds. Riverside also enables HD live streaming and AI Show Notes for automatic titles, chapters, and keywords that simplify publishing. Whether recording a podcast, webinar, or social clip, Riverside brings professional-grade production within everyone’s reach.
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Ardour
Grab yourself a nice audio interface. Plug in a microphone or a keyboard. Add a track, press record, and you got it. Cut, move, stretch, copy, paste, delete, align, trim, crossfade, rename, snapshot, zoom, transpose, quantize, swing, drag, drop. Import audio or MIDI from your hard drive or the Freesound database. All with unlimited undo/redo. All in the same window. Mute, solo, fader, automate, EQ, dynamics, insert, send, pre-fader, post-fader, sync, monitor, isolate. Floating point fidelity, the most flexible mixer architecture in the industry, hundreds of plugins, and external control surfaces. Ardour's core user group, people who want to record, edit, mix and master audio and MIDI projects. When you need complete control over your tools, when the limitations of other designs get in the way, when you plan to spend hours or days working on a session, Ardour is there to make things work the way you want them to.
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Alitu
Really simple podcast editing for people in a hurry. Alitu is a web-based tool that takes your raw recordings & helps you turn them into an amazing, audience-growing show. Alitu will convert and clean up your audio, saving you time and unnecessary fuss. Easily remove any mistakes, add your own music and add fades for extra polish. You don't need an audio engineering degree to make a studio-quality show. Record short solo segments straight into Alitu. Upload you main content - interviews or call recordings - from anywhere. The process couldn't be quicker. A drag-and-drop here, and a button click there gets all your audio in one place ready for you to make your next hit episode. Use our custom episode builder and editor to move your clips around, trim, cut, add regular clips from your library (ads, segment intros, promos) and set up sweet sounding fades, from music to voice.
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Audacity
Free, open source, cross-platform audio software. Audacity is an easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. Developed by a group of volunteers as open source. Audacity can record live audio through a microphone or mixer, or digitize recordings from other media. Import, edit, and combine sound files. Export your recordings in many different file formats, including multiple files at once. Supports 16-bit, 24-bit and 32-bit. Sample rates and formats are converted using high-quality resampling and dithering. Support for LADSPA, LV2, Nyquist, VST and Audio Unit effect plug-ins. Nyquist effects can be easily modified in a text editor – or you can even write your own plug-in. Easy editing with Cut, Copy, Paste and Delete. Also unlimited sequential Undo (and Redo) in the session to go back any number of steps. Real-time preview of LADSPA, LV2, VST and Audio Unit (macOS) effects. Plug-in Manager handles plug-in installation.
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