How to Edit Music?

Introduction
Step 1. Input an Audio File
Step 2. Select a Region
Step 3. Edit the Selected Region
Step 4. Save the Changes

Introduction

There are so many different reasons why there is a need to edit music. Depending on your resources, you might want to get an expensive program to edit music. However, for most pro and casual music editing, check out our program, MP3 Audio Editor, one of the most powerful pro-level digital audio workstation packages on the market. Download and install MP3 Audio Editor to enjoy the easy editing.

Download MP3 Audio Editor

Step 1. Input an Audio File

Launch MP3 Audio Editor. Click "Open" () to activate a browser window, in which you can select an audio file from your computer (). Then, click "Open" () to input the audio file to program. (You can add more than one audio file to the task window to edit.)

Tips: All the files of the supported formats can be seen in the "Open" window & if you want know other formats supported, activate the "Files of type" dropdown list at the bottom.

Input an Audio File

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Step 2. Select a Region

Select the region you want to edit. There are 4 ways to select a region: click anywhere of the waveform as a starting point and use hotkey like Shift+Home, Shift+End or Ctrl+A to select from start/end or all (); click the left button and drag along with the waveform to the place wanted to be selected (); specify the beginner & end of the session by moving the sliders below the waveform window (); Input the start, end and length of time to choose specified region at the bottom of the editor ().

Tips: If you do not select any part, some inactivated buttons will be in color grey and the corresponding features are unavailable; some audio effect will be directly applied to the whole waveform.

Select a Region

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Step 3. Edit the Selected Region

Now click "Edit" tab () to edit the selection by clicking the buttons of cut, copy, paste, crop, delete and more (). You can use unlimited Undo & Redo () to restore some wrong operations made during the editing.

Edit the Selected Region

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Step 4. Save the Changes

After all the editing is finished, go back to the "Home" tab () and you can save the file by clicking the "Save" ().

Save File: to save the changes to the edited file.
Save File As: The file that has been edited can be saved with a different file name and/or location.
Save Selection As: to save just the highlighted selection to a file.

Save the Changes