Best Audio Editing Software

GarageBand is a fully equipped music creation studio right inside your Mac — with a complete sound library that includes instruments, presets for guitar and voice, and an incredible selection of session drummers and percussionists. With Touch Bar features for MacBook Pro and an intuitive, modern design, it’s easy to learn, play, record, create, and share your hits worldwide. Now you’re ready to make music like a pro.

FL Studio by Image-Line is a world-renowned digital audio workstation (DAW) that empowers musicians, producers, and creators to turn ideas into professional-quality music fast. Packed with over 100 instruments and effects, a massive sound library, and intuitive tools, it’s designed for both beginners and industry professionals. Used by hitmakers like Martin Garrix, Mustard, and Boi-1da, FL Studio has powered countless chart-topping tracks across every genre. Its sleek interface makes it easy to learn while offering deep creative flexibility for experienced users. With Image-Line’s lifetime free updates, producers never have to pay for upgrades again. Starting at just $99, FL Studio delivers everything you need to start making music today.

Ableton Live is a digital audio workstation (DAW) designed for music production, recording, composition, mixing, and live performance. The software provides two primary workspaces, Session View for launching clips and improvising musical arrangements and Arrangement View for traditional timeline-based editing. Users can record and edit audio, sequence MIDI instruments, manipulate samples, and create music using integrated synthesizers and audio effects. Its audio processing capabilities include time stretching, pitch adjustment, automation, and non-destructive editing. Ableton Live also supports third-party plugins, external MIDI controllers, hardware synthesizers, and the Ableton Push controller. The platform is available in Intro, Standard, and Suite editions, with different collections of instruments, effects, sounds, and advanced production tools.

Voicemeeter Banana is a real time audio mixer application. It comes with more I/O and a brand new 'next gen' audio engine creating new routing / mixing possibilities by managing 3 hardware sound cards and 2 virtual audio devices in a simple straightforward approach. Endowed with new effects on all input strips, a High End Master Parametric EQ on every Bus and a multi format audio player/recorder, Voicemeeter Banana is described as "the most advanced audio mixer for Windows and a "must have" system audio component". Originally developed for VOIP users and PC gamers, to mix voice and music on Skype, Google Voice, Lync, Teamspeak and others. Voicemeeter is also a useful app for Broadcasters, Podcasters and YouTubers, providing essential tools to manage many different audio needs: To improve voice quality on any microphone, record interviews or conferences in multichannel or mixed stereo, simply managing audio in a consistent way under the Windows operating system.