Notes on Editing Pre-Recorded Sounds Using ...

AudacityŽ is free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds.

Download it from: HERE

In today's session you were given an overview of audio editing using this software, including:

• Importing audio - original remains unaltered
• Selecting audio
• Processing selected audio - Cut, Copy and Paste
• Some of the many effects available were shown
• Overload and clipping
• Deleting unwanted sounds
• Cutting tracks
• Inserting silence between commentary links
• Slipping tracks along timeline
• Moving clips to other tracks
• Track resizing
• Envelope shaping to alter sound levels on timeline
• Mixing tracks (eg music and commentary)
• Zooming in down to sample level to alter the sample levels
• Saving a project to continue editing later - aup files, data files
• Exporting edited audio to WAV or MP3 format (latter requires LAME add-on)

The latest very good Help Manual is available HERE

JH 28 March 2012