Alternatives to Amadeus Pro
Paid multitrack audio editor and sound recorder for macOS with batch processing. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Amadeus Pro
Paid multitrack audio editor and sound recorder for macOS with batch processing.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Amadeus Pro.
Audacity
A multi-track audio editor and recorder that has been the free default for twenty-five years.
Audacity is free and open source under GPLv3 and runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, though its version 4 interface change means many tutorials show the older layout.
ocenaudio
A free, cross-platform audio editor built for fast, straightforward editing of audio files.
ocenaudio is free and runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, with a simple interface for quick edits, but it is closed source and not a multitrack workstation.
Adobe Audition
A professional audio workstation for recording, editing, mixing and restoring audio for video and podcasts.
Adobe Audition adds spectral editing and restoration tools and runs on Windows and macOS, but it is subscription only and requires an Adobe account.
Tenacity
A fork of Audacity created after the 2021 telemetry row, built to record and edit audio with nothing phoning home.
Tenacity is a free, open-source Audacity fork with no telemetry, running on Windows, macOS and Linux, though development is slow and its interface is the older Audacity one.
Fission
A Mac audio editor for trimming, joining and splitting files without quality loss, plus batch conversion.
Fission is also a paid Mac editor, focused on lossless trimming, joining and batch conversion, but it is not a multitrack or effects-heavy editor like Amadeus Pro.
Kwave
A KDE sound editor for recording, playing and editing audio files on Linux.
Kwave is a free, open-source KDE sound editor for Linux with fades, normalization, filters and a spectrogram view, so moving to it means leaving macOS.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Audio Hijack
Capture and process audio from Mac applications and input devices.
Piezo
A simple Mac app for recording audio from any application or from a microphone.
iZotope RX
An audio repair and restoration suite for removing noise, clicks and other problems from recordings.
XLD
A Mac tool for ripping CDs and decoding, converting and splitting lossless audio files.
Steinberg WaveLab
Mastering suite with phase scope, multimeter and loudness analysis tools.
