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For basic applications, ensure this is set to 1 (Mono) Input. The final drop down menu is the input from which you wish to record. Again, not having a dedicated audio interface will mean that this is likely automatically set up, if you do, verify that your sound card is selected or else you will not be able to record through the interface. The menu next to the output device menu is the input device menu. If you do, verify that the device is selected, or your output will not sound from the device, but rather the computer’s built in sound card. If you do not have a dedicated audio interface, this is likely to be correctly set up by default. For basic applications, the effect of changing this is negligible.

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On OS X, there will only be one option, Core Audio, but on Windows and Linux there may be others.

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Look in your toolbar for the following menus.įrom left to right, the first drop down menu is the driver in use by the computer. You can see how things are setup directly in the Audacity toolbar. Recording Audio Initial Settingsīefore you can start recording, it’s important to make sure that your interface settings are correctly set. Recording is covered in more detail in the following section.

If you wish to pause playback at a specific moment with the ability to resume from that moment, use the blue pause button. To playback audio, press the green triangle (alternatively space bar), and to stop audio that is playing back press the yellow square (also spacebar). Likely a relic of the days of tape recorders and players, the transport is the primary control for the playback and recording of audio. The transport is located in the toolbar at the top of the screen. The grey arrow at the bottom of the track minimizes (or maximizes) the current track, and by left clicking the base of the track and dragging up and down the vertical size of the track can be adjusted to taste. From a visual perspective, the track can be manipulated to make room for other tracks or to increase the focus on a specific track. Other useful track controls are Mute and Solo which silence the track (or all the audio on the track), or make the track the only thing that sounds. The pan control is conveniently labeled with L and R (i.e. Another fairly simple attribute is the pan of the track, which controls the left and right balance of the track. Volume will control the output level of every piece of audio on the entire track. Perhaps the most obvious track control is volume, denoted by the fader labeled + and. The image of a track below can be used as reference.Įach track has several options associated with the track as a whole, that is, changes to the options effect every piece of audio confined to the track (if this doesn’t make sense now, keep reading, things will clear up after we start bringing audio into Audacity). For convenience, Audacity will take care of the creation of tracks for you, whenever you import or record audio. You can create a track manually by selecting Tracks > Add New > Audio Track to manually insert a track. In Audacity audio is confined to a track.

For now, it is blank because no audio has been tracked. The large grey area directly below the toolbar will be the location of your recorded or imported audio. Included in the toolbar by default are options for input and output settings, playback and record settings, and editing tools. This toolbar will be the primary interface for our interaction with the software. Notice the menu options at the very top of the screen, these will be useful later in this tutorial, but for now, focus on the toolbar that extends across the screen, just above the large grey area. At this point, you should see something similar to the following.

After clicking OK you will be presented with the main screen.

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Feel free to click on any of these links for an even more in depth exploration of the capabilities of the program.

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Once you install and launch the program, you should be greeted with an initial message providing you with more information. Please bear in mind that the following images may appear different to you depending on your operating system and the version of Audacity you have installed. Audacity can be downloaded from the official website. Its flexibility and price tag makes it a preferred audio editor to many. Saving Your Project and Exporting AudioĪudacity is a multi-platform free open source audio recorder and editor useful in many different applications.Dynamically Automating the Volume of the Audio.Making Selections and Deleting Unwanted Audio.UW Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)Īudacity Online Curriculum Introduction to Audacity.

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