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Sound editors and converters play a very big role in multimedia works. I'd like to show you how to get some free and powerful ones you can use in your works.

Audacity. [The Free, Cross-Platform Sound Editor]

You may freely download and install Audacity for your audio editing. It's a freeware that can do so much for its freedom.

After installing Audacity you'll need to download and install its mp3 encoder.

Download and install LMAE mp3 encoder for Audacity. Learn more.

Sound Forge pro 10.0. [The Paid, Cross-Platform Sound Editor]

Sound Forge is a powerful desktop sound editor created by Sony for both professionals, and armatures.

It's very easy to use, you may download and try the current demo version.

Sound Editing is usually based on one concept apart from some features and plug-Ins others may have and others not.

In anyway, I'm here to introduce to you the basics of sound editing, and this's for all standard editors so no fret.

You may start learning Sound Forge or Audacity now.

Get Top Free Sound Editors

• Free Audio Editor 2011
  • Edit audio files visually; Record audio from a microphone or any other available input device; Apply various effects; Burn audio CDs from MP3, WMA, WAV, and OGG; All in one program, simple and intuitive - FAE (free audio editor). Completely free!
• Wavepad Audio Editor
  • A free version of WavePad audio editing software is available for non-commercial use only. The free version does not expire and includes most of the features of the normal version.
• Free Power Sound Editor
  • Free Power Sound Editor is a visual audio editing and recording software solution, which supports many advanced and powerful operations with audio data from mp3 to you name it.
• ExpStudio Free Audio Editor
  • Free sound editing program to edit wav, mp3 or other audio files. Can be used as a music editor, for editing audio files or a quick mp3 edit.
• Wavosaur Free Sound Editor
  • Wavosaur is a free sound editor, audio editor, wav editor software for editing, processing and recording sounds, wav and mp3 files. Wavosaur has all the features to edit audio (cut, copy, paste, etc.) produce music loops, analyze, record, batch convert. Wavosaur supports VST plugins, ASIO driver, multichannel wav files, real time effect processing. The program has no installer and doesn't write in the registry. Use it as a free mp3 editor, for mastering, sound design.

Get Top Free Audio Converters

• Weeny Free Audio Converter 1.4
  • Weeny Free Audio Converter is a free software to convert audio formats MP3, OGG, WAV, WMA from one to another, such as converting MP3 to WAV and WMA, WAV to MP3 and WMA. Weeny Free Audio Converter supports the ability to convert one audio format to the same format with different audio-encoding parameters such as resampling, encoder quality or bit rate etc. Weeny Free Audio Converter's easy-to-use interface makes it easy to convert multiple files in a single batch, regardless of their sources and target formats. Weeny Free Audio Converter can also easily edit audio tags information such as ID3 or APE.
• Clone2Go Free Audio Converter
  • Clone2Go Free Audio Converter is a powerful tool in audio extraction and conversion. With this tool, you can easily extract the unprotected sound tracks from video clips such as AVI, WMV and MPEG and convert the audio to different formats as you like such as WAV, WMA, OGG, MP3 and AAC.
• Hamster Audio Converter
  • Universal audio converter to convert audio files and other sources in the desired audio type, whether it's audio book, or just your favorite music from YouTube to MP3. The User-friendly interface is as simple as possible because it is implemented using drag-n-drop technology! Supports all popular audio formats (MP3, OGG, WMA, AAC, Mpc, Ape, FLAC, WAVE ...) , more than 200+ mobile devices (iPhone, iPad, PSP, HTC ...) and streaming video from YouTube. Further increased the rate of conversion, added batches for converting, resampling and HD support.
• Bender Online Audio/Video Converter
  • Easily Convert your audio and video files with Bender Converter. It's an easy-to-use online application for converting audio and video files to MP3, AVI, FLV Flash, iPod / iPhone / iPad and other popular formats. The service is fast and does not require registration.
• Free Studio.
  • Free Studio is an all-in-one package bundling free multimedia applications developed by DVDVideoSoft. Free Studio Manager has 8 fragments for easy access to all included application, ranging from. YouTube programs; MP3 and Audio; CD, DVD and BD; DVD and Video; Photo and Images; Mobiles; Apple Devices; and 3D programs. Free Studio contains 47 freeware. With this free software you can easily:
    • Convert video and audio files between different formats as well as iPod, PSP, iPhone, BlackBerry and all other popular mobile phones and devices;
    • Burn and rip DVDs and audio CDs
    • Upload and download YouTube videos and music to your computer, iPod, PSP, iPhone or BlackBerry
    • Perform basic editing of audio and video files at ease
    • Record videos, make snapshots, and create 3D videos and images.

I bet, with these packages above, you won't need any other software to accomplish any of the tasks mentioned, and all for free.

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