4.How to Use Audacity Tutorial

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How to use audacity

for beginners

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Installing audacity


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Open your browser



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Type the link audacity.sourceforge.net



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Click the link



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Click here


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To show all downloads for audacity


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For mac


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For linux


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Save it to a FOLDER you can

EASILY ACESS!


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RUN THE INSTALLER


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IF PROMPTED….


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Select “run as administrator”


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To ensure a properinstallation!


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Afterwards, select your preferred language


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CLICK NEXt


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Read


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Click next


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Select destination location


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You can change which directoryaudacity is installed…


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RIGHT Here by clicking browse


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Be sure to check the box here


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So you can access audacityfrom desktop


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double check your options


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if you’re not satisfied with thepreferences….


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Click back


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However if you’re all set togo….


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Click install


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Wait for it to finish….


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And information window appears


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Which contains patch notesand links


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That has troubleshootingdiscussions


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With that said….


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Proceed by clicking next


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And done!


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Note that by clicking finishaudacity will open


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You can prevent this byunchecking the box


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You can access audacityin…


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Start menu


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Click “all programs”


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Click “audacity”


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Or from your desktop


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Look for the audacity icon


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Audacity interface(tools)



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When you open audacity…



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This is where the magic happens!



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You’ll want to downloadthe lame and ffmpeg



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Because these add-ons helpalot



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Lame allows you toconvert files into mp3



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To download these files



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Let’s go to edit



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Click preferences



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Go to libraries



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And click the download button



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You will be sent to a webpage



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Click the link here



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You will be sent to another page



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Click the links that apply to your operating system



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Save it to a directory that you can open easily



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And install/extract the addon.



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If it is an installer, audacitywill detect it automatically



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But if audacity cannot findthe files



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Click locate, on whichever is not detected



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A window will pop out



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Click browse


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To make another window pop out


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Make sure to go to where the files are saved


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Afterwards, select the file


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Then click ok



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Afterwards, your add-onsare good to go

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W ’ll d i i h d i i d


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We’ll need to put it in the audacity window


Cli k fil


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Click file


Hi hli ht th i t ti


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Highlight the import option



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A i d ill t


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That ill prompt o to select a m sic file


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That will prompt you to select a music file



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Note that you can selectmore than 1 file



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But for this tutorial…



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We’ll only use one file


Now to select your file


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Now, to select your file…


Click open


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Click open


This will then appear


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This will then appear


And now your audio file is imported


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And now your audio file is imported



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All audio files imported are displayed here


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All audio files imported are displayed here


Here are your transport buttons


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Here are your transport buttons



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play


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play


stop


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stop


Skip to start


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Skip to start


Skip to end


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Skip to end


record


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record



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These are the basic buttons



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That you will use to checkedits



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You have done with theaudio file


The tools


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The tools


Selection tool


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Selection tool



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This tool enables you tohighlight parts of the audio


As shown here


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Selection tool is activated


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Highlighted area


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Of the audio to be edited


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When selection tool isused and you press play


Only the highlighted area will be played


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Instead of the whole audiofile


Envelope tool


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This is used when you

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Fade in and fade out

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Fade in and fade out

manually


Like this


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Somehow like this


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To use envelop tool


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Click the icon


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Then click anywhere in the workspace


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It might do this when you click


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Don’t panic!


Simply drag on the workspace to adjust


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And its back to normal


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Little white dots will appear


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The dots act as borders



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To where the fade effectlasts


To explain further


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When the slope is downward…


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It’s a fade in effect until the next border


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This is very useful in


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This is very useful inediting audio



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That you wish to overlap


Time shift tool


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To a different timestamp


Timestamps are located here


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After clicking timestamp tool, highlight the workspacearea


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And drag your mouse, the audio will now move


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Like this


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Notice the gap here in this example


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This signifies silence upuntil 2 or 3 seconds



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When the audio is playedfrom the beginning


Of course, you can adjust it to your liking


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The zoom tool


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And the draw tool


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Function as a tag team



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The draw tool requires youto zoom into the audio



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Before you can actually useit



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For it’s use is to eliminateclicks and small pops


By drawing actual


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By drawing actualwaveforms in the audio

track


Let’s select the zoom tool


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I want you to pay

attention to the time stamp


Thi i f t


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This is for you too seehow much far you

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Need to zoom for you too

use the draw tool


Now we begin to zoom


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This is what the workspace should look like


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Now let’s click the draw tool


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Upon clicking, you might notice the dots


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these dots are notes of the audio track


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They also act as wave connectors


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In this example, there are no broken waves


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So the tool will adjust the pitch of the note


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Like this


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It only affects milliseconds of track though


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So use it mostly for audio


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So use it mostly for audiotracks that have…



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Clicking sounds or smallpops



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Adjusts the loudness of thetrack inside audacity


Input volume


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Adjusts the loudness of the

sound audacity receives


audacity can also receive


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yany sound given by the

computer


Output level


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Indicates the loudness of

the track inside audacity


Input level


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Indicates the loudness of

sound audacity recieves



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The significance of these

indicators and adjustors



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Is for you to prevent

clipping



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What is clipping?


It’s when the sound is too loud to indicate


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You’ll know it’s clipping when you see the red lines


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This is bad since it might


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This is bad since it mightbreak your sound devices



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Speakers, amplifiers, mp3player etc.


And of course, it might


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induce bad effects to the

human ear



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If you ever experienceclipping…


You can adjust them with their respective categories


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Follow the icons to see what needs adjusting


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You can now begin to

export it



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Exporting will save it as a

proper audio file


To begin exporting, click file


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Click export


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This window will ask where the file will be saved


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For this example, let’s select mp3


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You can change the file name here


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After that, a confirmation will appear


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You can type in the blank areas to add description


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if satisfied, click ok


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And it will begin exporting


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And just wait for a whilebefore it finishes


When exporting window


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closes, check where you

save the file


and here is the finished product


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And that will mark the

end of this tutorial



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These are just basic things you should know



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Learn more from youtube videos and online forums



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There are a lot of neattechniques to be learned



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End of tutorial

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4.How to Use Audacity Tutorial