Getting Started With Audacity 1.3 is a new book that discusses how to create podcasts and edit music with the free & open source audio editor Audacity.
Topics covered:
- Learn to use the Audacity software–what it is, how to install it, and all of its main features
- Learn setting up projects and how to record your content for your first podcast
- Master audio editing basics for voice tracks like trimming, amplifying, removing “noise,” duplicating and splitting tracks, changing pitch, speed, and more
- Create MP3 Podcasts from your saved projects and then prepare the file and upload it to personal websites or iTunes
- Learn more about advanced editing techniques like fading in and out, click removal, timeshifting, using multiple audio tracks, overdubbing, mixing and more
- Add background music to projects as well as import music from CDs, cassette tapes, and vinyl records
- Use all the audio effects pre-installed with Audacity like echo, amplify, bass boost, and normalize
- Install and use Audacity plugins like Nyquist, LADSPA, and VST effects
- Common terms used audio recording and editing as the book has a complete Glossary
- All toolbar, menu, and keyboard shortcuts used in the software
The target audience for Getting Started With Audacity 1.3 is people new to audio recording and editing with Audacity.
Audacity is cool and has many useful functions. What I don't understand is how navigating around the sample (zoom, selections, etc.) can be so awkward compared to Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro).
I mean, if it wasn't for Adobe's DRM I would pay the money just to have something I could zip around in and do what I wanted with sample-accuracy easily.
Audacity is cool and has many useful functions. What I don't understand is how navigating around the sample (zoom, selections, etc.) can be so awkward compared to Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro).
I mean, if it wasn't for Adobe's DRM I would pay the money just to have something I could zip around in and do what I wanted with sample-accuracy easily.