DarkAudacity

DarkAudacity is a lightweight, yet powerful tool that provides you with a fast and versatile environment for processing audio samples and mixing tracks.

The program comes with a sleek, clean and fresh look that is unlikely to give you any troubles. As you would expect, the app enables you to work with high quality audio samples, such as OGG, AIFF, WAV, FLAC, AU, Ffmpeg-compatible files as well as other uncompressed types, for instance.

Functionality-wise, the utility packs a plethora of features for mixing and editing audio files. From adding mono and stereo tracks and standard mixing to the option to generate chirp, DRMF Tones, noise, silence, tones and pluck. At the same time, you can enhance your tracks with dozens of effects,  included, but not limited to echo, normalize, phaser, reverse, reverb, amplify, equalize, fade in, fade out, so on and so forth.

In case the track does not sound just right or you simply want to learn more about it, then the tool provides you with a set of tools for analyzing the contrast, plot spectrum or find the beats, silence, and sound.

While you might be tempted to believe that the tool is solely cosmetically different than Audacity, mainly since the code is the same, the truth is that it packs a few extra tweaks. For starters, the menus have been slightly rearranged so that the functions can be accessed more conveniently. Simply put, the options that are likely to be used more frequently are placed in the top levels of the menus.

Moreover, the Sync-Lock button is replaced by the Time-Lock one that can be found in the Tracks menu, whereas many toolbars are hidden by default. Recording can be done at any time if you hold down the Shift key or at the end of the track if you do not. Lastly, you are now able to pause items that you normally could not.

In the eventuality that you need a reliable tool for advanced processing audio files or perhaps you are into mixing, then perhaps you can consider giving DarkAudacity a try.