AudacityUses of Audacity for a performance

majorBy Diana Blanchard

Introduction to Music Technology

What is Audacity?

Audacity has many different uses Record live audio Copy or splice sound tracks together Change the speed or pitch of a

recording Import and export files Editing Effects Sound quality

Recording live audio

Record into a microphone› Can use external microphone or other

input device Dub over existing tracks to create multi

– track recordings Up to 16 channels at once Volume

Sound tracks

It is very simple to copy sound tracks together

Audio files from your computer Create Wav files or AIFF files

Effects

Change pitch Tune Remove background noise Adjust volumes Echo, phaser, wahwah, reverse

Example

Open audacity Project – import audio Import thumb_piano Effects

References

Audacity.soundforge.net sourceforge.net/projects/audacity