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-‘audacity’ is a ‘free open-source digital audio editor’ / ‘recording computer software application’–
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*available for [‘windows’ / ‘OS X’ / ‘linux’ / other ‘operating systems’]*
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(‘audacity’ was started in ‘fall 1999’ by ‘dominic mazzoni’ and ‘roger dannenberg’ at ‘carnegie mellon university’ and was released on ’28 may 2000′ as ‘version 0.8’)
(as of ’10 october 2011′, it was the “11th most popular download” from ‘sourceforge’, with “76.5 million downloads”)
(‘audacity’ won the “sourceforge ‘2007’ + ‘2009’ ‘community choice’ award”) (for “best project for ‘multimedia'”)
(in ‘march 2015’, ‘hosting’ was moved to ‘fosshub’ and by ‘4 july 2015′ it had exceeded ’10 million downloads’ there)
(it is still under ‘active development’, and the latest release (‘version 2.1.2′), was announced on ’20 january 2016’)
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(the best (?) ‘free audio editing workstation’)
(to trim .wav files)
(i only use it to trim ‘masters’ from years ago to repost in various incarnations)
(usually to cut out the ‘cringe’)
(“the sounds that make me ‘cringe’…”)
(CP: (annoyed) – “haven’t we been here before?”)
(write a drama around the “SOC dialogues’ that accompanies your “songwriting bursts’)
(the strongest immediately getting ‘high’)
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Welcome to the “Getting Started” quick help guide for Audacity.
Get back here any time by clicking in the Audacity application.
Learn how to:
import and play an existing audio file
record your voice, guitar, standard turntable or tape deck
record with a USB device
(USB turntable, USB tape deck or USB audio interface)
Select audio to work on
edit sounds, including applying effects
save or open an Audacity project
export to an MP3 or other audio file
burn to a CD
See also the Audacity Tour Guide for a quick tour of selected features of Audacity.
For a detailed reference guide to all the Audacity menus and controls, click here or in the Audacity application.
If you need to download the current Manual, click here.
Questions? Visit our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for answers to many everyday issues.
Links
Audacity Tour Guide
What is That? – an online website guide to Audacity’s User Interface
manual.audacityteam.org /quick_help.html
Getting Started – Audacity Manual
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Audacity Manual Contents
Audacity 2.4.2 Manual
New features in this release
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
– most common questions are answered in the FAQ
■ Visit the Forum for technical help ■ Using Help Resources ■ Search the Wiki for further tips. ■
Guide to the Audacity Project Window
1 Menu Bar
2 Transport Toolbar 3 Tools Toolbar 4 Recording Meter Toolbar 5 Playback Meter Toolbar 6 Mixer Toolbar
7 Edit Toolbar 8 Play-at-Speed Toolbar 9 Device Toolbar 10 Unpinned Play/Recording Head 11 Timeline 12 Scrub Ruler
13 Track Control Panel 14 Audio Track 15 Label Track 16 Selection Toolbar 17 Time Toolbar 18 Status Bar
Hover over and click on the image to learn more. Skip the image
Click on the image to learn more
Help buttons
Additional Menus on Mac
Using Audacity
Quick Help
- Searching the Manual – tips on how to Search the Audacity Manual
- Getting Started – Recording, Importing, Editing, Exporting…
- Audacity Tour Guide – quick tour of selected features of Audacity
- What is That? – an online website guide to Audacity’s User Interface
- Installing and updating Audacity on Windows, Mac or Linux
- Installing plug-ins for Audacity on Windows, Mac or Linux
- Changing language
- Connecting audio equipment – Microphones, instruments, USB devices…
Audacity Foundations
- Managing Audacity Projects – Audacity’s internal workspace
- Audacity Setup and Configuration
- Preferences – changing your settings and reset to default
- Toolbars Overview – including how to arrange Toolbars
- Audio Tracks, Waveform view and Spectrogram view
- Playing and Recording
- Importing audio and Exporting audio files – For use in other applications
- LAME MP3 export and FFmpeg import/export libraries for more formats
- Metadata Editor
- Navigation Tips and Playback Tips
Editing with Audacity
- Selecting audio
- Audio Alignment
- Copy and Paste a section of audio
- Clips – individual sections within an Audio Track
- Splitting and Joining Stereo Tracks
- Zooming Overview and Vertical Zooming
- Effects, Generators and Analyzers
- Creating a Crossfade
- Mixing Audio Tracks
- Undo, Redo and History
- Spectral Selection and Editing
Help with Advanced Topics
Macros –
for batch processing and effects automation
Mixer Board – Analogous to a hardware mixer board
Accessibility – Audacity for the visually impaired
Latency when recording overdubs or using Punch and Roll
Time Tracks – used for varying speed control
Multi-channel Recording – recording more than two separate channels of audio
Customizing Audacity
- Adding plug-ins & other customization and Creating Nyquist plug-ins
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Themes – learn how to select your preferred Audacity look and feel
- Scripting
Tutorials
- Editing an Audio File – Import the file, edit and export it
- Your First Recording – Record microphone, guitar, keyboard
- Mixing Voice with Background Music – For podcasts
- Recording Multi-track Overdubs – Record over other tracks
- Vocal Removal and Isolation
- Looping – make an audio loop with Audacity
- Making Ringtones and IVR messages – For your cellphone or IVR system
- Punch-in repair of recording fluffs
- Recording streaming audio playing on the computer
- Copying tapes, LPs and other media to CD or computer
- Click and pop removal techniques
- Splitting a recording into separate tracks
- Burning Audio CDs and How to import CDs
- Exporting to Apple Music/iTunes and Importing from Apple Music/iTunes
Index, Glossary and More
- Audacity License
- Information for Developers – join our developer community
Links: Most links are to other pages in this Manual. Italiciszed links are to pages external to this Manual, mostly to our main website or Wiki. We are not responsible for the content of any other external sites.
Screenshots: Most screenshots in this Manual are of Audacity running under its default settings on the Microsoft Windows 10® operating system.
Copyright: Pages in this Manual are available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. In essence, you are free to (1) copy, distribute and transmit the work (2) to adapt the work, under condition you must attribute the work to the authors (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). For any reuse or distribution, you may not remove our copyright notice and must make clear to others the license terms of this work.
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Audacity is a free open source digital audio editor and recording computer software application, available for Windows, OS X, Linux and other operating systems.[4][5]
Audacity was started in the fall of 1999 by Dominic Mazzoni and Roger Dannenberg at Carnegie Mellon University a
and was released on May 28, 2000 as version 0.8.[7][8]
As of 10 October 2011, it was the 11th most popular download from SourceForge, with 76.5 million downloads.[9]
Audacity won the SourceForge 2007 and 2009 Community Choice Award for Best Project for Multimedia.[10][11]
In March 2015 hosting was moved to FossHub
and by 4 July 2015 it had exceeded 10 million downloads there
(it is still under active development, and the latest release, version 2.1.2, was announced on ’20 january 2016′)
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