What
is Audacity?Audacity is free and open source software (FOSS) for audio editing/recording that is developed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux operating systems.
- Wikipedia Articles: Audacity {WP};
Audio Editing Software {WP}
- Website: AudacityTeam.org
- About Audacity; Program Features; Screenshots
- Original developer: Dominic Mazzoni
- News: Audacity was recently purchased by Muse Group {mu.se}
- Martin Keary (aka Tantacrul), I’m Now in Charge of Designing Audacity. Seriously. (April 31, 2021) {YouTube}
- Download Audacity {AudacityTeam.org}
– Audacity is free and open source
Current version: 3.0.4
- Audacity Manual
- Guide to the Audacity Project Window (Interactive)
- Using Audacity
- Tutorials
- Index, Glossary, and More
- Getting Started
- Audacity Tour Guide
- Two views: (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.
- The Nyquist
Programming Language (Dannenberg
and Simoni 2013) {WP}
A LISP-based programming language for creating Audacity plugins