Audacity

The Audacity (audio editor) is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for download here for Microsoft Windows, macOS/Mac OS X and GNU/Linux.

Audacity lets you make loud music (and soft as well).

What's it for?

This is a Wikiversity learning resource placed here to help folks with:

• Getting started with sound recording
• Creating music with your PC
• Wiki Campus Radio
• Topic:Audio Engineering
• Topic:Learning Objects (The kind that can be heard)
• Topic:Internet Audio

Converting to OGG for Wikiversity

One of the most important uses for Audacity at Wikiversity is to convert WAV and AIFF files to OGG files.

Wikiversity only uploads OGG files. Attempts to upload other file formats gets a very vague error message so you must use a program like Audacity to do the conversion.

To do this, start a new page in Audacity. Then IMPORT your WAV or AIFF file. Trim and export to OGG. Very easy!

Lessons

• Wikiversity tutorial on installing Audacity and basic editing
• Processing vocals
• Audacity Tutorials

Getting started

• Audacity User Manual
• Audacity Website
• Download Audacity
• Audacity article at Wikipedia

Main menu

Audacity

The main menu of audacity contains:

1. File – New, Open, Close, Save Project, Save Project As, Export... (8 export options), Page Setup, Print, Preferences, Exit
2. Edit – Undo, Redo, ... Move Cursor, Snap to...
3. Select ' make audio selections
4. View – Zoom In, Zoom Normal, Zoom Out, ... Float Mixer Toolbar, Float Meter Toolbar
5. Transport - Playing, Recording, Scrubbing ...
6. Tracks - Add New, Mix, ... Sync-Lock
7. Generate – Silence, Tone, Noise, ...
8. Effect – Amplify, Auto Duck, ... Truncate Silence, WahWah
9. Analyze – Contrast, ... Find Clipping
10. Tools - Macros, Screenshot, ... Sample Data Import
11. Extra - provides access to Toolbar operations, commands for track focus and movement of the editing or playback cursor
12. Help – Online Help, About Audacity

See also

Grassroots media training/KKFI/Audacity

Wikibooks

• Digital Music Composition/Tracking

Wikiversity

• Wiki Campus Radio – wiki & radio
• Wikiversity Reports – webcasts

External links

• Audacity team landing page
• Audacity at flossmanuals.net
• #audacity at FreenodeIRC
• Wikipedia article on Audacity

Tools for creating internet content
Tools for image creation and manipulation See Category:Graphics GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) - Review:Inkscape - Adobe Photoshop Images for use in animation: 2D Animation process Tools for video creation and editing. content development project - Internet audio and video Landscape rendering - computer-generated landscape scenes Rendering models of living organisms - computer-generated characters Lesson:3D Storyboard - at Narrative film production, Wikiversity Film School Course:Digital Puppet Animation - 3D computer-generated animation See also: Category:Video Tools for digital audio file creation and editing. Audacity - Free sound editor for recording and editing Apple GarageBand - Macintosh software for manipulating digital audio Wiki Campus Radio - Live internet chat and podcasts Podcasting - how to make a podcast See also: Category:Audio Text files ICAU1129A - Operate a word processing application Word processing challenges - develop your word processing skills HTML - content development at Topic:HTML. blogs - create a web log at Wikiversity or at another website Wiki and Introduction to Wikiversity - wiki websites and Wikiversity in particular See also: Category:Writing
See also: Digital media workshop - Related discussion: Free content