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Cherry Pasayloon

Presented by:

Herald Mayongue

Goals of Editing
Make sure your audio edit points arent visible

Make sure that your video and audio clips are in sync

It was released on 28th day of May year of 2000. Audacity was started by Dominic Mazzoni and Roger Dannenberg at Carnegie Mellon University. As of October 2011, it was the 11th most popular download from SourceForge, with 76.5 million downloads.

Audacity is a free digital audio editor and recording application, available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other operating systems. In addition to recording audio from multiple sources, Audacity can be used for post-processing of all types of audio, including podcasts by adding effects such as normalization, trimming, and fading in and out. Audacity has also been used to record and mix entire albums, such as by Tune-Yards. It is also currently used in the OCR National Level 2 ICT course for the sound creation unit.

USER INTERFACE (Audacity)

 Importing and exporting of WAV, AIFF, MP3 (these are file extension for sound file), Ogg Vorbis, and all file formats supported by libsndfile library. Recording and playing back sounds Editing via Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited levels of Undo) Multitrack mixing A large array of digital effects and plug-ins. Built-in LADSPA plug-in support. VST support available through an optional VST Enabler. Noise removal based on sampling the noise to be removed.

Audio spectrum analysis using the Fourier transform algorithm. Support for multi-channel modes with sampling rates up to 96 kHz with 32 bits per sample. Amplitude envelope editing Precise adjustments to the audios speed while maintaining pitch ( Audacity calls it changing tempo), in order to synchronize it with video or run for a predetermined length of time. Changes to the audios pitch without changing the speed without changing the speed. Features of modern track audio software including navigation controls, zoom and single track edit, project pane and XY project navigation, non-destructive and destructive effect processing, audio file manipulation (cut, copy, paste) Conversation of cassette tapes or records into digital tracks by automatically splitting the audio source into multiple tracks based on silences in the source material.

Name(s)

Common Icons

Function

Select tool, Cursor

1. Selects and moves regions 2. Selects as area within a region

Zoom in/out

Zoom in and out of the current or selected view

Cut, Split, Scissor

Splits a region at the position of the cut

Glue, Join

Joins regions together to form a new region

Fade (and/or) Crossfade

Crossfades between two regions and/or applies a fade in/out to a region

Draw

Redraw the waveform at sample points. n.b. this can remove vital information from a file and should only be used in re-mastering

Envelope

Gives control of the volume on a track, a way of automation In play mode plays the selected track and mutes all others

Solo

Mute

In play mode mutes the selected track

Thank You..