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WavePad Sound Editor
This sound editing software is a full featured professional audio editor for Windows or Mac. It lets you make and edit music, voice and other audio recordings. When editing audio files you can cut, copy and paste parts of recordings and, if required, add effects like echo, amplification and noise reduction. WavePad works [...]

Mammut will FFT your sound in one single gigantic analysis (no windows). These spectral data, where the development in time is incorporated in mysterious ways, may then be transformed by different algorithms prior to resynthesis.
An interesting aspect of Mammut is its completely non-intuitive sound transformation approach.
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http://www.notam02.no/arkiv/doc/mammut/ (2204 clicks)

TAPESTREA : Techniques And Paradigms for Expressive Synthesis, Transformation, and Rendering of Environmental Audio
what is it? : TAPESTREA (or taps) is a unified framework for analyzing,
transforming and synthesizing complex environmental sounds. Given one or more recordings, it provides well-defined means to: (1) identify points of interest in the sound and extract them into reusable [...]

Simple audio loop editor
Loop editor is a simple (and free) audio loop editor. Designed in Cocoa from the ground up, Loop Editor proudly takes advantage of Quartz, CoreAudio, and other solid OS X interface features.
Loop Editor supports all audio file formats that support loop markers, including every type of looping available for any given format. [...]

WaveSurfer is an Open Source tool for sound visualization and manipulation. It has been designed to suit both novice and advanced users. WaveSurfer has a simple and logical user interface that provides functionality in an intuitive way and which can be adapted to different tasks. It can be used as a stand-alone tool for a [...]

Allows users to manipulate a small portion of a sound wave (one 44th approximately or 1000/44100 of a second). This is commonly referred to as a “wave table”. Users can manipulate the wave table itself by drawing a line with two end points, drawing a point, drawing a curve, moving a point, or deleting a [...]

SoX Wrap is a wrapper for the conversion routines of the open source sound utility SoX (Sound eXchange). It transfers to and from the following formats: 8svx, aiff, al, au, avr, cdr, cvs, dat, gsm, hcom, la, lu, maud, mp3, nul, ogg, prc, raw, sb, sf, sl, sph, smp, snd, sndt, sw, txw, ub, ul, [...]

Welcome to the home of SoX, the swiss army knife of sound processing programs. SoX is a command line utility that can convert various formats of computer audio files in to other formats. It can also apply various effects to these sound files during the conversion. As an added bonus, SoX can play and record [...]

Sinusoidal Partial Editing Analysis and Resynthesis
SPEAR is an application for audio analysis, editing and synthesis. The analysis procedure (which is based on the traditional McAulay-Quatieri technique) attempts to represent a sound with many individual sinusoidal tracks (partials), each corresponding to a single sinusoidal wave with time varying frequency and amplitude.
Something which closely resembles the original [...]

XO Wave is a digital audio workstation designed to meet the needs of audio and video professionals. Though still under development, XO Wave provides a wealth of features as well as a simple and elegant interface. Features include non-destructive recording, editing and mixing, real-time crossfades, fully configurable mixer, Quicktime and AVI synchronization and, of course, [...]

Standalone MAX/MSP audio editor.
http://mmturner.home.mindspring.com/software.html (2437 clicks)

Ardour is a digital audio workstation. You can use it to record, edit and mix multi-track audio. Produce your own CD’s. Mix video soundtracks. Experiment with new ideas about music and sound. Generate sound installations for 12 speaker gallery shows. Have Fun.
Ardour capabilities include: multichannel recording, non-linear, non-destructive region based editing with unlimited undo/redo, full [...]

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SoundHack is a soundfile processing program for the Macintosh. It performs many utility and esoteric sound processing functions available nowhere else. These functions make SoundHack invaluable to computer musicians, sound effects designers, multimedia artists, webmasters and anyone else who enjoys working with sound.
Sound Processing
- Time stretching or pitch shifting with the phase vocoder [...]

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Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.
Audacity can record live audio through a microphone or mixer, or digitize recordings from cassette tapes, vinyl records, or minidiscs. With some sound cards, it can also capture streaming audio.
Import sound files, edit them, [...]

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Frequency is a spectral audio editor. The central feature is an amplitude brush tool using which one can paint amplitude modifications unto a sound’s spectrum. Create strange sounds with this one and paint on top of any audio file…

Eisenkraut is a standalone, cross-platform audio file editor using the SuperCollider 3 server application.
Eisenkraut uses SuperCollider server as the audio playback engine. You need to install a recent SuperCollider 3 version, available from www.sourceforge.net/projects/supercollider (548 clicks) to run this software. If you get an error message saying that SC doesn’t understand the ‘-H’ option, please [...]