Audacity

From Wikiversity

Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for download here for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.

Contents 1 What's it for? 2 Getting started 3 Main menu 4 See also 4.1 Wikibooks 4.2 Wikiversity 5 External links

[edit] 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!

[edit] Getting started

Audacity article at Wikipedia

• Audacity Home at SourceForge
• Download Audacity

[edit] Main menu

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. View - Zoom In, Zoom Normal, Zoom Out, ... Float Mixer Toolbar, Float Meter Toolbar
4. Project - Import Audio, Import Labels, ... Add Label at Playback Selection
5. Generate - Silence, Tone, White Noise, ... Plugins 1 .. 32
6. Effect - Amplify, BassBoost, ... Reverse, WahWah
7. Analyse - Envelope Tracker, ... Peak Monitor
8. Help - Online Help, About Audacity

[edit] See also

[edit] Wikibooks

• Digital Music Composition/Tracking

[edit] Wikiversity

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

[edit] External links

• Audacity at flossmanuals.net
• Audacity Wiki
• Sound editing tutorial by Daveydweeb
• Audacity tutorial
• #audacity at FreenodeIRC
• Audacity-JACK Integration (columbia.edu/pipermail post)
• The Audacity of it! (pdf)
• Using Audacity (WikEducator)

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