an easy-to-use, cross-platform multi-track audio editor/recorder

Tenacity is an easy-to-use, cross-platform multi-track audio editor/recorder for Windows, Linux, and other operating systems and is developed by a group of volunteers as open-source software.

Features

Recording
from audio devices (real or virtual)

Export & Import
a wide range of audio formats (extendible with FFmpeg)

High Quality
including up to 32-bit float audio support

Plug-Ins
providing support for VST, LV2, and AU plugins

Scripting
in the built-in scripting language Nyquist, or in Python, Perl and other languages with named pipes

Editing
arbitrary sampling and multi-track timeline

Accessibility
including editing via keyboard, screen reader support and narration support

Tools
useful in the analysis of signals, including audio

Getting started

Pre-packaged builds are available through the releases page on the repository. Tenacity might also be packaged for your software distribution.

Alternatively, you can build Tenacity from source.

Download Documentation

Getting help

Our Matrix channel, #tenacity2:matrix.org, is our most active communication channel, where you're welcome to ask questions and receive help in real time. You can also check us out on Mastodon for news and events.

For discussions regarding all things Tenacity, you can head on over to our Lemmy community .

Development

The upstream development repository is found on Codeberg. We maintain a GitHub mirror for accessibility and CI purposes, but pull requests are ignored.

To contribute to Tenacity, please read the contributing guidelines.

Mailing Lists

While most development happens on Codeberg, we also offer SourceHut as an alternative platform to accept code contributions.

Legacy Versions, Audacium, and Saucedacity

In case you are interested in notable Audacity forks that have since merged with us, and about Tenacity's original codebase, you may visit the link below.

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