Acoustica Basic Edition 6.0.18

Acoustica Basic Edition is the free version of the powerful and comprehensive audio editing, recording, and mastering Acoustica application. As it’s the free edition, Acoustica Basic also comes with a lot less features and functions than the Standard and Premium editions do. Anyway, this free edition of Acoustica is still a pretty handy tool especially for basic audio editing and management tasks.

One of the most remarkable capabilities of this free Acoustica edition is the support for recording the sound from various sources. This neat application allows creating recordings from sources like the stream of a connected microphone or the playback of an external broadcast. As for the editing operations, all the basic ones are supported, including cutting, copying, pasting, deleting, or inserting silence. The number of effects that can be added to the processed track is a lot much smaller than as offered by other similar applications. You can only apply an echo effect and a convolution reverb to a portion of the track, or reverse it. The volume can be normalized or adjusted to your liking, while fading tweaks can also be applied to the loaded track. As for filters, other than a “phono filter” (a RIAA equalization low-pass filter), there are no other ones.

As you can see, this tool is a pretty stripped-down version of any decent audio processing and editing application, but it’s still quite handy especially in the hands of those looking for simplicity and needing only to perform basic audio management tasks.

v6.0 [Jun 8, 2013]
-Improved VST preset handling which is more consistent with how presets are managed for the internal processing tools
-Automatic recovery of recordings if suffering from unexpected computer shut-downs
-WAVE64 – support for files bigger than 4 GB now also in the Basic and Standard Edition
-The Basic Edition now includes MP4 and AAC import and export filters (only on Windows 7 or higher)