We got several email inquiries recently on sound editing software. Sound editing software is necessary when you want to crop a ringtone out of a favorite melody, create a fusion of songs for the dance in the college, add a piece of background music for your presentation. Today we'll introduce 5 top sound editing software for you.

Part 1: Top 5 Sound Editing Software to Edit Sound Files

The below 5 sound editing software are considered as the top 5 best sound editing software to help you edit sound files on computer. You could take a deep review of each one and then select the one you like.

1. Leawo Music Recorder - The best sound editing software

Leawo Music Recorder

Leawo Music Recorder is a popular application that combines music recording and music editing functions.It supports wide range of audio sources including built-in input audio, computer audio and online music sources, like YouTube, Spotify, Hulu, AOL Music, Last.fm, etc. You'll figure out how to record and edit audio files in minutes even if you're a novice. You can output your audio files in MP3 or WAV format with lossless quality. Moreover, the sound editing software could compress sound files by changing the bit rate and sample rate and edit sound tags automatically and manually. We'll list a step by step tutorial of how to use each function to edit your sound files.

2. WavePad - Professional sound editing software

Wavepad Sound Editor

WavePad is a professional music editing software with wide capacity - it's available for Windows and Mac. It offers sound editing functions like cut, copy and paste parts of recordings, and effects-adding functions like echo, amplification and noise reduction. WavePad sound editing software is a professional sound editing software for both professional users with its wide functional options and an easy to use sound editing program for novices with its simple interface. But the sound editing program takes a little long to render / apply its effect to audio.

3. Audacity - Completely free sound editing software

Audacity

Audacity is a completely free sound editing program with open source. This sound editing program is available for sound formats like WAV and MP3 but you need to download a separate encoder for MP3 sound files. Audacity boasts for its extensive sound editing features including editing with cut, paste, and delete, noise suppression, etc.

4. Adobe Audition - Powerful sound editing software

Adobe Audition

Adobe Audition is a powerful sound editing software that almost cover all of the functions of sound editing programs. Except for basic sound editing functions, the sound editing software also has a number of effects that you can add to your sound including delays, reverbs and distortion. And few professional sound editing software support multiple files processing, but Adobe Audition allows you to apply to batch files processing. This is a quick way change multiple files in one sitting.

5. Wavosaur - A portable sound editing app

Wavosaur

Wavosaur is a portable app with tiny size. You can save it to a USB and use it on any PC without installation. This sound editing software also features for basic editing functions like cut, copy and paste. You can choose various skins for the interface of the program. It also equipped with some advanced features like multi tracks processing and VST Support.

Part 2: How to Edit Sound Files with Leawo Music Recorder

Leawo Music Recorder is an easy-to-use sound editing program. As to editing sound files, Leawo Music Recorder mainly focuses on 2 aspects: compress/uncompress sound, change sound parameters like audio codec, bit rate and sample rate, and edit sound tags after recording. The following is detailed introduction of how to edit sound files with Leawo Music Recorder.

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Leawo Music Recorder 

☉ Record any music file from computer stream audio and built-in input audio.

☉ Record music from 1000+ music sites like YouTube, Facebook, Veoh, VEVO, etc.

☉ Schedule music recording via the internal recording task scheduler.

☉ Automatically/manually add and complete music tags like artist, album, cover, genre, etc.

You could either visit the website of Leawo Music Recorder and click the "Download" icon there to download and install it on your computer. Or, you could directly click the above Download icons to download it according to the computer system you've got.

Step 1: Finish settings before recording your sound files

1. Click the mic icon on the bottom left. And select between "Record Computer Audio" and "Record Audio Input" on the panel according to your needs.

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2. Click the "General" column alongside to set your output destinations to save output sound files.

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3. Choose the "Format" column on the same panel to set the format of your output sound files from MP3 and WAV. You could compress or improve your output sound files by changing the bit rate and sample rate.

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Step 2: Record your sound files

Record with Leawo Music Recorder by click the red dot on the top left of the main panel. And play the sound files you need to edit simultaneously. Stop recording by click the red square. You'll get a compressed sound files that you need.

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Step 3: Edit sound tags

Leawo Music Recorder will add sound tags automatically if your recorded sound files are songs. You can also add sound tags manually.

1. Find your recorded sound files in the "Library" under the "Media" panel, which you can find at the bottom right of the main window. Click "Edit Music Tags" with a right click on your mouse.

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2. You can add the following information for your sound files: Title, Artist, Album, Year, Genre. Click OK to finish.

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If you're using a Mac computer, you may need to use Leawo Music Recorder for Mac to edit sound files on Mac. The operation is quite similar.

Part 3: Video Demo on How to Use Leawo Music Recorder