They let you paste one track into another (a quick way to add background sounds or clean room tone into your voiceover). Both products work around this limitation in the same way. OcenAudio (and Audacity) can find zero-crossings if you hit a key command while TwistedWave has a preference to do that automatically.īeyond those differences, OcenAudio and TwistedWave seem to be twins separated at birth (both children of CoolEdit maybe?).īoth OcenAudio and TwistedWave were not designed to be multi-track editors.OcenAudio does not have an Effect Stack (TwistedWave) or an Audio Chain (Audacity) function.OcenAudio uses VST plugins (TwistedWave uses both VST and AU plugins).If you test drive OcenAudio next to TwistedWave, you will be struck with the similarities, not only in looks but also in performance. I find it to be both a nimble and a capable editor. And, it adresses the Audacity issues listed above. OcenAudio is maintained by a very talented team of Brazilian engineers at the Federal University of Santa Catarina.

In doing so, they have built a really solid product. They leverage the powerful, cross-platform Qt Framework and extended it with their own audio-focused Ocen Framework.

If those complaints resonate with you, you may want to try out OcenAudio. Typical complaints about Audacity include it’s “Wonky” Interface, an ineffective method of previewing effects, and how slow it seems to get while editing larger files. And, it runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux Operating Systems. It gives you access to a wide array of tools. And, for good reason, Audacity is a mature and well-supported opensource project. Usually, when someone is looking for a free software package for Vocieover work, people tend to recommend Audacity.

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