Audacity Manual Contents
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Audacity 3.2 alpha Manual
- most common questions are answered in the FAQ
■ Visit the Forum for technical help
■ Using Help Resources
■ Check out written guides and video tutorials
Guide to the Audacity Project Window
1 Menu Bar
2 Transport Toolbar
3 Tools Toolbar
4 Edit Toolbar
5 Audio Setup Toolbar
6 Share Audio Toolbar
7 Recording Meter Toolbar
8 Playback Meter Toolbar
9 Unpinned Play/Recording Head
10 Timeline
11 Track Control Panel
12 Vertical Scale
13 Audio Track
14 Label Track
15 Selection Toolbar
16 Time Toolbar
17 Play-at-Speed Toolbar
18 Status Bar
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Using Audacity
Quick Help
- Searching the Manual - tips on how to Search the Audacity Manual
- Getting Started - Recording, Importing, Editing, Exporting...
- Audacity Tour Guide - quick tour of selected features of Audacity
- Installing and updating Audacity on Windows, Mac or Linux
- Updating from Audacity 2.x to Audacity 3.x (changed project structure)
- Installing plugins for Audacity on Windows, Mac or Linux
- Changing language
- Connecting audio equipment - Microphones, instruments, USB devices...
Audacity Foundations
- Managing Audacity Projects - Audacity's internal workspace
- Audacity Setup and Configuration
- Preferences - changing your settings and reset to default
- Toolbars Overview - including how to arrange Toolbars
- Audio Tracks
- Playing and Recording
- Importing audio and Exporting audio files - For use in other applications
- FFmpeg import/export libraries for more formats
- LAME MP3 export - only required for Linux
- Metadata Editor
Editing with Audacity
- Selecting audio
- Audio Alignment
- Copy and Paste a section of audio
- Clips - individual sections within an Audio Track
- Splitting and Joining Stereo Tracks
- Zooming Overview and Vertical Zooming
- Effects, Generators and Analyzers
- Creating a Crossfade
- Mixing Audio Tracks
- Undo, Redo and History
- Spectral Selection and Editing
Help with Advanced Topics
- Macros - for batch processing and effects automation
- Mixer Board - Analogous to a hardware mixer board
- Accessibility - Audacity for the visually impaired
- Latency when recording overdubs or using Punch and Roll
- Sync-Locked Track Groups
- Time Tracks - used for varying speed control
- Crash Recovery
- Portable Audacity
- Multi-channel Recording - recording more than two separate channels of audio
- Note Tracks (MIDI) - these contain data from MIDI (and Allegro) files
- LOF Files for Importing sets of audio files
Customizing Audacity
- Adding plugins & other customization and Creating Nyquist plugins
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Themes - learn how to select your preferred Audacity look and feel
- Scripting
Tutorials
- Editing an Audio File - Import the file, edit and export it
- Your First Recording - Record microphone, guitar, keyboard
- Mixing Voice with Background Music - For podcasts
- Recording Multi-track Overdubs - Record over other tracks
- Vocal Removal and Isolation
- Looping - make an audio loop with Audacity
- Making Ringtones and IVR messages - For your cellphone or IVR system
- Punch-in repair of recording fluffs
Index, Glossary and More
- Audacity License
- Privacy Notice
- Information for Developers - join our developer community
- Information for the Media - Audacity and free, open software
Links: Most links are to other pages in this Manual. Italicized links are to pages external to this Manual, mostly to our main website or Wiki. We are not responsible for the content of any other external sites.
Screenshots: Most screenshots in this Manual are of Audacity running under its default settings on the Microsoft Windows 10® operating system.
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