What is Audacity?Audacity is FOSS software for multi-track audio editing/recording that is developed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It runs on the Mac OS, Windows, and Linux.
- Wikipedia Articles:
- Website:
- YouTube Channel
- Developer: Audacity Team
- Original developer: Dominic Mazzoni
- Martin Keary (aka Tantacrul), The Story Behind Audacity {YouTube}
- Download Audacity at: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/
Current Version: 3.7
- Audacity Manual
- Guide to the Audacity Project Window (Interactive)
- Using Audacity
- Tutorials
- Index, Glossary, and More
- Getting Started
- Audacity Tour Guide
- Two main views, see also: Izotope 2020
- Waveform - amplitude vs. time
- Spectrogram
- frequency vs. time (amplitude intensity is
encoded using color)
- Glossary
- Subject Index
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- Audacity Wiki
- Managing Audacity Projects (.aup3)
- Audio file formats:
- Uncompressed audio file formats: WAV (.wav) and AIFF (.aif)
- Compressed audio file formats: MP3 (.mp3)
- Importing Audio (File > Import > Audio)
- Export Formats Supported by Audacity
- Effects
- Delay, Echo, Fade In/Out, Normalize, Reverb, Repeat, etc.
- Pitch Shifting & Time Stretching
- Change Speed – Change pitch and duration
- Change Pitch – Change the pitch of a selection without changing its duration
- Change Tempo – Change the duration of a selection without changing its pitch
- Paulstretch – Extreme time stretch
- Sliding Stretch – Continuous change to the pitch and/or tempo
- Generators:
- Chirp, Pluck, Silence, etc.
- Analyzers:
- Beat Finder, Find Clipping, Plot Spectrum, etc.
- FFmpeg Import/Export Library
- Audacity Support > Installing FFMpeg
- Plug-ins
- OpenVINO AI Plugins are now available for macOS {Audacity Blog}
- Download
Nyquist Plug-ins
- The
Nyquist Programming Language (Dannenberg and Simoni 2013) {WP}
A LISP-based programming language for creating Audacity plugins