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Real DAW. Multitrack, JACK, the thing you use when Audacity runs out of tracks.
https://ardour.org
The waveform editor everyone already has. Win / Mac / Linux. Record, trim, export, argue about telemetry, keep using it.
https://www.audacityteam.org
KDE video editor. Multi-track, effects, proxy workflow. Linux home, Windows and macOS builds exist.
https://kdenlive.org
Music production suite. Pattern editor, VSTs on Windows, native Linux.
https://lmms.io
FFmpeg GUI that only cuts. Instant trims, no re-encode unless you ask.
https://mifi.no/losslesscut
Record and stream. Not an NLE. The capture box every editor sits in front of.
https://obsproject.com
Fast single-file audio editor. VST, spectrogram, lighter than Audacity for one clip.
https://www.ocenaudio.com
Open-source NLE aimed at a Premiere-shaped timeline. Development has been uneven; check the current branch.
https://olivevideoeditor.org
Simpler NLE. Fine for cuts and titles. Same three desktop platforms.
https://www.openshot.org
Cross-platform NLE on MLT + FFmpeg. No project-format lock. Windows, macOS, Linux.
https://shotcut.org
Audacity fork from the telemetry fight. Same editor, different governance.
https://tenacityaudio.org
VirtualDub lineage. AVI / Fast recompress energy on modern Windows. Old-web video tool that refused to die.
https://github.com/hellocharli/VirtualDub2
