How to Use Audacity for Easy Recording and Editing of Your Audio Files?
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The document provides a comprehensive guide on how to download and use Audacity, a free and user-friendly audio editing tool. It outlines the installation process and introduces essential features and tools available in Audacity, including the control bar, editing tools, mixer, and edit toolbar. Additionally, it explains the functions of various buttons for playback, recording, and editing audio files.
How to Use Audacity for Easy Recording and Editing of Your Audio Files?
- 1. Mikel Mindset Master presents How to Use Audacity for Easy Recording and Editing of Your Audio Files?
- 4. is…
- 5. An audio editing tool
- 7. Recommended for people who’s just starting to learn
- 11. So to get Audacity for free
- 13. In “Audacity Home Page”
- 14. Click on “Download Audacity 2.0.3”
- 15. Assuming your using an operating system like…
- 17. If not?
- 18. Click on “Other Audacity Downloads for Windows” instead
- 19. Or click on “All Audacity Downloads”
- 20. But assuming you click on “Download Audacity 2.0.3”
- 21. Then wait
- 22. For this to download
- 23. For this to download
- 24. After finishing the download
- 25. Click here
- 26. This windows will pop-out
- 27. Click on “Run”
- 28. Then the following steps are easy to follow
- 30. Click on “OK” if your fine with English
- 31. Then click on “Next>”
- 32. Then again
- 33. Click on “Next>”
- 34. Then you can choose your destination folder
- 35. By clicking on “Browse…”
- 36. If this is fine with you
- 37. Then click on “Next>”
- 38. To create a desktop icon
- 39. Just click on “Next>”
- 40. Finally
- 42. You wait
- 43. Until this windows appear
- 44. No choice, click on “Next>”
- 45. To start using Audacity
- 48. Click on “OK”
- 49. You’re now with the real thing
- 50. You look on this part
- 51. Now, you must learn each portion of this
- 52. For this portion
- 53. Is what you called “Control bar”
- 54. Like your everyday mp3 players
- 55. This had essential buttons
- 56. A very familiar button
- 58. When you click here
- 59. The playback or recording will temporary stops
- 60. Until you click here again
- 61. Then here’s a more familiar button
- 62. This is the “Play” button
- 63. Do you need explanation about this?
- 64. Then the “Stop” button
- 65. This button simply stops the recording or the playback
- 66. Of the audio file
- 67. Next button
- 68. The “Skip to Start” button
- 69. Which move the cursor to time zero
- 70. When you open an audio file
- 71. You will see this
- 72. This is called “Time Track”
- 73. This very thin line is the cursor
- 74. This will tell you where you’re audio file
- 76. So when you click this
- 77. This very thin line
- 78. Will go from here
- 79. To here
- 80. The cursor is in zero time track
- 81. In short
- 82. The audio will play from the start
- 83. Just an added note
- 84. You see this blue spikes?
- 85. They were called waveforms
- 86. Every audio files have certain waveforms
- 88. In audio editing
- 89. If there’s “Skip to Start” button
- 90. Then there’s also “Skip to End” button
- 91. When you click here
- 92. This cursor will go from here
- 93. To here
- 94. To the very end of the waveforms
- 95. The last basic button
- 96. Is the “Record” button
- 97. Just click this
- 98. Speak to your microphone
- 99. Or maybe you sing
- 100. You now create your own audio file
- 101. Click here again to stop recording
- 102. You missed something
- 103. How about this set of buttons?
- 104. These are editing tools
- 105. This is the “Selection Tool”
- 106. You can use this tool to choose
- 107. Which part of the waveforms
- 108. To be edited
- 109. Yes, the selected part became darker in color
- 110. The next tool
- 111. The “Envelop Tool”
- 112. This tool is use
- 113. Adjust the volume
- 114. Of every part of the waveforms
- 115. Then next tool
- 116. The “Drawing Tool”
- 117. But before you can use the “Drawing Tool”
- 118. First
- 119. The waveforms
- 120. Must be zoomed enough
- 121. So you must firstly learn this tool
- 122. The “Zoom Tool”
- 123. With this tool
- 124. You can “Zoom out”
- 125. These waveforms
- 126. “Zoom Tool” also make the time track
- 127. And waveforms
- 128. Became longer
- 129. While the “Zoom in”
- 130. Is simply the opposite of “Zoom out”
- 131. “Zoom in” will make the time track
- 132. And the waveforms
- 133. Became shorter
- 134. The reason
- 135. Why you must learn
- 136. The “Zoom Tool” before the “Drawing Tool”
- 137. Is because the waveforms
- 138. Must
- 139. Be
- 140. Zoomed out
- 141. Enough
- 142. Until you see only
- 143. This
- 144. When you notice these dots
- 145. You can now use the “Drawing Tool”
- 146. Back to “Drawing Tool”
- 147. You can now modify each of these dots
- 148. “Drawing Tool” is for sophisticated audio editors
- 149. Another tool
- 150. Is what you called “Time Shift Tool”
- 151. With this tool
- 152. You can drag the waveforms
- 153. From here
- 154. To any “Time Track”
- 155. Then the last tool would be
- 156. The “Multi Tool”
- 157. As the word connotes
- 158. At “Multi Tool” mode means
- 159. You can use multiple tools at once
- 160. As many as all of these tools
- 161. That’s cool
- 162. You now know all about the “Control Bar”
- 163. But how about the other parts
- 164. But how about the other parts
- 165. Hmm…
- 166. To let you learn more
- 167. This is the “Mixer Toolbar”
- 168. “Mixer Toolbar” has two controls
- 169. The “volume level of the audio track”
- 170. And the “volume of your audio device”
- 171. Another toolbar
- 172. The “Edit Toolbar”
- 173. With “Edit Toolbar” you can edit the waveform
- 174. Like cutting the waveform
- 177. Trimming away the waveform outside the selection
- 178. Silencing the selected waveform
- 179. “Undo ”
- 180. “Redo”
- 181. Then here’s what you call “Sync-Lock Tracks”
- 182. When you click here
- 183. You will then see
- 184. This symbols saying that “Sync-Lock Tracks” is on
- 185. That means
- 186. If you select this waveform
- 187. Whatever you will do to this waveform
- 188. Will be done to this waveform as well
- 189. So if you remove this
- 190. This will also be remove
- 191. So if you remove this
- 192. Both of these waveforms
- 193. Will be remove
- 194. So that’s the importance of “Sync-Lock Track”
- 195. Next
- 196. “Zoom in”
- 197. “Zoom out”
- 198. “Fit selection in window”
- 199. This will zoom the selected waveforms
- 200. To fit into windows
- 201. This means that your selected waveforms
- 202. This waveforms will zoom
- 203. To this
- 204. The last part of the “Edit Toolbar”
- 205. “Fit project in window”
- 206. That means the whole waveforms
- 207. No matter how long is
- 208. Will just fit exactly at the window
- 209. Surprise!
- 210. There’s still more to know
- 211. Audacity has so many features
- 212. Hopefully that gives you enough to start
- 213. Hopefully you enjoyed reading
- 214. Thank you very much for your time