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Audacity

How To Have Fun With Sound by “Audacitydemo” This presentation is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/. Audacity.

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Audacity

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  1. How To Have Fun With Sound by “Audacitydemo” This presentation is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Audacity

  2. Go to the folder where Audacity is installed. On Windows this is usually C:\Program Files\Audacity. On Mac, this is usually your Applications folder. Double-click audacity.exe (Windows) or Audacity.app (Mac) to launch Audacity. On a Windows Network, open Application Explorer Click All Launch Audacity To Open Audacity

  3. Recording Sound Click on the buttons inside the red box to find out what they do.

  4. Editing Sound Click on the buttons inside the red box to find out what they do. These tools are explained in more detail in the following slides.

  5. Selection Tool Highlighted Area • Make sure the Selection Tool is selected • Use the Mouse and highlight the sound on the track you want to edit or delete

  6. Envelope Tool • Make sure the Envelope Tool is selected – blue lines will appear • Drag the Blue lines in or out to change the volume of the whole track

  7. Envelope Tool #2 Click Here • Where I clicked to move in the line, white circles appear • Click inside the blue line near the white circle • The volume will no longer be a straight line meaning the volume will change.

  8. Zoom Tool • Make sure the Zoom tool is selected • Click on the track with the magnifying glass • Keep clicking until you are zoomed in as close as you want to be

  9. Drawing Tool • You need to have zoomed in very close. Audacity will let you know if you have zoomed in enough. • Using the Drawing tool you can move the individual handles

  10. Timeshift Tool • The Timeshift tool is for when you have more than one track • Make sure the Timeshift Tool is selected • Move the track to where you want

  11. Recording Some Sound • Press Record – to start recording • Press Stop – to stop recording

  12. Playing Sound • Click Skip to Start – to put the cursor at the beginning of the sound or click where you want to start from • Click Play

  13. Importing Sound • File > Import > Audio • Select the sound you want and Open

  14. Deleting Sound Selected Area that will be deleted • Using the Selection Tool select the sound you want to delete • Press the Delete key on your keyboard

  15. Lets Have Some Fun • To have fun with the sound, select Effect • Select an Effect from the menu • Play around with the settings for each effect to see what they do

  16. Exporting to an audio file If creating a Podcast for the internet, export as MP3. To burn to an audio CD or use your sound in Movie Maker, export asWAV.

  17. What Else Can I Do? Help Improve Audacity by contributing tothe Audacity Wikihttp://audacityteam.org/wiki/ or the Audacity Forumhttp://audacityteam.org/forum/EVERY little improvement makes a big difference !!!!!!

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