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Audacity 1.3.2 User Manual

Audacity for the Impatient (all you need to know in one page)

What's New in Audacity 1.3.2

Foundations

Digital Audio

Audacity Projects

Audacity Tracks and Clips

Audacity Selection

Audacity Setup and Configuration

Playing and Recording

Tutorials

Tutorial - Your First Recording

Tutorial - Mixing a Narration With Background Music

Tutorial - Copying a Cassette or LP to CD (including noise removal and splitting into multiple tracks)

Advanced Concepts

Recording Quality

Audacity on Mac, Windows, and Linux

Spectrogram Analysis

Batch Processing (converting multiple files at once)

Customization (themes and keyboard shortcuts)

Accessibility (Audacity for the visually impaired)

Recovery (if Audacity crashes or if you lose part of an Audacity project)

Reference

Menu Bar:

• File
• Edit
• View
• Tracks
• Generate
• Effect : Built In Effects LADSPA Effects Nyquist Effects
• Analyze

Tool Bars:

• Tools : Select Envelope Draw Zoom Move Multi
• Control
• Edit
• Mixer
• Meter
• Transcription

Editing Tools:

Project Window:

• Ruler
• Tracks : Wave Tracks Label Tracks
• Selection Bar

Preferences:

• Audio I/O : To select Audio devices and their proerties.
• Quality : To select data rates, which determine quality, and trade offs between speed and quality.
• File Formats : How and when files are copied, how audio is mixed and preferred audio formats.
• Spectrograms : Presntation of spectrogram.
• Directories : Where temporary files are stored, and how often autosave is done.
• Interface : Interface bahaviour, hiding and showing of additional information, language and preferred dB display range.
• Theme : Used to customise colors and images in Audacity.
• Batch : Used for a chain of commands applied to a number of audio files.
• Keyboard : Keyboard shortcuts for commands.
• Mouse : Mouse shortcuts for commands.

Frequently Asked Questions

Credits

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