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Audacity is a great tool to have, of course it does have its fair share of drawbacks. But one of the best things about Audacity is that it's free. It's convenient for simple editing or even multi track mixing. To begin with, you can control the bit-depth of your tracks by clicking on Quality and choose between the bit rates depending on what you need to with the edited files. One of the most useful tools that Audacity provides, especially if you're looking to clean your tracks, would be the Draw tool. Through this you can simply zoom into the waveform and alter/re-draw the waveform data to take care of the distortions or pop clicks in your tracks. This level of editing control can usually be found in pro tools.
Audacity is also a good application to for editing sound. Its claim-to-fame here would be the unlimited undo options, so you can always back-trace your steps to start building again. When compared with other freeware audio editing tools, I would always like to mention the number of effects and filters that Audacity offers. For instance, Amplify, bass boost, high pass filter, Echo, delay, click removal etc. One of the reasons why I like Audacity is that it allows you to load VST plugins. This is usually available in professional applications like Dexter Audio editor etc.
You can even align your tracks by using Audacity. You can simply import your tracks and mix them together, with a varying amount of control over them all. Also while importing, you can choose the Import Raw data option to open an uncompressed file format. With a wide range of file support it will surely read almost everything there is. Also while starting a new project you can choose between the sample rate that you wish to use. If you have a fast computer and enough disk space you can select the 32-bit float samples while editing, and is more flexible. 16-bit takes up the least space and is equivalent to audio CD quality. You can even change the pitch without altering the tempo.
"more serious freeware applications like WavePad or Audacity"
