Please recommend me a lightweight Audio Multitrack Recording software for Win 10, and possibly Linux
That looks oddly similar to Audacity…?
It is 
I really like OCENAudio, which is also oddly similar to audacity, but with 85% less WTF UI craziness. Simple, free, and solid.
I think someone just took Audacity sauce code - recompiled it, renamed and slaped their own branding on and whalalala - new editor! But why…?
No multitrack recording.
Because of spies. Tenacity was released a couple of weeks ago, so it’s still a little buggy. You could also use an old audacity version, until version 2 it’s save.
Of course you could graduate up to something bigger and more complex like Adobe Audition. For some bigger jobs like podcast editing or recording narration I use the Fairlight tab of DaVinci Resolve, which is free and incredibly feature rich.
it’s not free but Acon Digital make Acoustica, which has a multitrack editor that’s on the minimal side, if I remember right it’s about $50 for the version that doesn’t have all the audio restoration tools
… or Cakewalk and MuLab
Thanks for recommendations again!
MuLab looks neat!
I’m planning to tame the beast of Ardour - it’s multi-platform and affordable. Perhaps I can turn off and hide all the fancy stuff, and make a simple bedroom-studio template - that would do for me.
MuLab is a full featured DAW.
it’s literally free…
well yes, it’s donation-ware
of course, you can say that for every ‘business’ in this world… you are free to donate, right?
now, back to reality - it’s free
I had a similar situation. I wanted to record some acoustic stuff, single mic, just capture the sound, on my Surface Pro 6, and Reaper was just sluggish for me. I looked around and didn’t really find anything I liked, and ended up using my old copy of CoolEdit2K.
Not even sure that’s even available anymore. I think Adobe bought it and ruined it.
Yes. I think CoolEdit v2 would be perfect. I just downloaded a demo version from Download Cool Edit Pro 2.0 for Windows - OldVersion.com. It looks perfect - that simplicity is so great and refreshing.
CoolEdit was a fantastic program! Way back then I used to make dark industrial ambient tracks by recording into it and manipulating the wave forms. Good times! I stopped using it once it became Adobe’s Audition.
I used to use it to clean up cassette tape recordings. I’d sample some tape hiss, use that to get a noise reduction filter, and then apply it to the full wave. Very handy.
Was good too for removing pops and clicks when I was digitizing vinyl.