What is the best non-destructive open source audio editor ?

A reel-to-reel tape machine.

>open source
>non-destructive

>>57932519
I had in mind software, not hardware.

>>57932524
epic joke, friend

pretty much all Windows editors are non-destructive or at least save the individual sample seperately

>>57933501
I'm asking for an open source one. I know well proprietary ones.

It's a DAW, but Ardour is the only one non-destructive and open source I can think of. I'm not sure if Jokosher is non destructive and I know there's an old one called sweep, developed by Pixar, but i've never seen it.

>>57933755
And the all the obvious free daws like QTractor, LMMS and the like

umm audacity?????LOL

>>57933820
Eh trackers aren't good for prerecorded audio editing.

>>57933755
What's with the subscription thing in Ardour? If I compile the source myself do I still have to pay up to have the thing not short out the audio?

>>57933857
Audacity is destructive, after a piece of audio is deleted there's no way to get it back if you save and open the project again.

>>57933893
Ardour is GPL. If you want to download a pre-compiled version they ask for a donation, but if you're using Linux you can find a third-party repository and it's fine. If you can find pre compiled packages for other OSes is also fine

>>57932482
What do you mean by non-destructive? What kind of edits are non-destructive?

>>57934330
>>57933893
Oh, I see what you mean. Basically the source contents are modified in-place when you save your project, but instead you're saving a lossless copy of the original + a description of the filter graph

>>57934341
>>57934330
Proprietary DAWs work like a video editor. You can cut and extend clips without getting rid of the original content. In Audacity one is directly editing with samples rather than files.

>>57933893
>What's with the subscription thing in Ardour?
Debian and Ubuntu have free packages

>>57934389
>Proprietary DAWs work like a video editor.
Free DAWs also work like a video editor, non-destructively
Audacity is the equivalent to Steinberg Wavelab, not a DAW

Foobar and mpv

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>>57932524