Audacity

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

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!

Lessons

 * Wikiversity tutorial on installing Audacity and basic editing
 * /Processing vocals/
 * Audacity Tutorials

Getting started

 * Audacity User Manual
 * Audacity Website
 * Download Audacity
 * Audacity article at Wikipedia

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) Select ' make audio selections
 * 4) View – Zoom In, Zoom Normal, Zoom Out, ... Float Mixer Toolbar, Float Meter Toolbar
 * 5) Transport - Playing, Recording, Scrubbing ...
 * 6) Tracks - Add New, Mix, ... Sync-Lock
 * 7) Generate – Silence, Tone, Noise, ...
 * 8) Effect – Amplify, Auto Duck, ... Truncate Silence, WahWah
 * 9) Analyze – Contrast, ... Find Clipping
 * 10) Tools - Macros, Screenshot, ... Sample Data Import
 * 11) Extra - provides access to Toolbar operations, commands for track focus and movement of the editing or playback cursor
 * 12) Help – Online Help, About Audacity

Wikibooks

 * Digital Music Composition/Tracking

Wikiversity

 * Wiki Campus Radio – wiki & radio
 * Wikiversity Reports – webcasts