Audacity A Great Option for The Apple LogicPro ($199.99) and FL Studio Producer Edition ($199)

Introduction

Audacity® is an open source sophisticated tool, you can achieve a lot of things, but still, unless you're an audio engineer, a passionate or advanced user, you have to spend some time with the help files. I believe most (novice) users use this software to perform only one or a few functions. For those who never used this program before, there are a few things you would love to use and benefit greatly from this application, which i would list them in the course of this blog.
Audacity is a great option for the Apple LogicPro ($199.99) and FL Studio Producer Edition ($199), its free and has all the features of the above paid applications.

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Features Of Audacity

Some Important features for users with no basic knowledge of audio engineering

• Producing a podcast, all you need is a microphone, a headset, your PC and audacity.
• Creating a ringtone( most network providers now charge for basic ringtones) with Audacity you can * Create your own ringtone free with simple and easy steps.
• Create and edit tracks, you can cut certain portions between your songs and unite them in a single track.
• Mixing a narration with background music.

Other Features

Special effects
Filters
Tone generators
Analysis capabilities
Producing a podcast
Import/export of WAV, AIFF, AU, FLAC, MP3 (via LAME encoder) Ogg Vorbis files
Advanced editing (cut, copy, paste, delete commands with unlimited "Undo" and "Redo," multitrack mixing)
Digital effects (change the pitch, remove background noises, alter frequencies, remove vocals, create voice-overs for podcasts, etc.) and plug-ins (support for LADSPA, Nyquist, VST Audio Unit, including VAMP analysis plug-ins)
Connecting with mixer, Recording device, instruments
With Audacity you can create your own professional home studio for quality sound recordings and edits
The full list of Audacity(R) features can be found on its Official Homepage here. Audacity is available under the GNU General Public License (GPL), offers support for over 20 languages and it runs on Microsoft Windows®, Mac OS X®, and Linux®

Topic B

WINDOWS VERSION	RECOMMENDED RAM/PROCESSOR SPEED	MINIMUM RAM/PROCESSOR SPEED
Windows 10 (32- or 64-bit),Windows 8 (64-bit),Windows 7 (64-bit)	4 GB / 2 GHz	2 GB / 1 GHz
Windows 8 (32-bit),Windows 7 (32-bit)(except Windows 7 Starter),Windows Vista (Home Premium/Business/Ultimate) (32- or 64-bit)	4 GB / 2 GHz	1 GB / 1 GHz
Windows 7 Starter,Windows Vista (Home Basic) (32- or 64-bit)	2 GB / 1 GHz	512 MB / 1 GHz

Audacity works best on computers meeting more than the minimum requirements stated above. For lengthy multi-track projects, I would recommend using machines of substantially higher specification than the minimums. Like my Device is windows 10(64-bit) 12GB Ram with 2.3GHz Processor which makes Audacity works smoothly on my device.

How To Make Ringtone With Audacity

• Step 1. Open your Audacity

• Step 2. Then, open the sound file by dragging and dropping it into Audacity, or click File>>Import >> Audio. Select your sound file, and press OK.

• Step 3 You can press the green Play button to preview your sound file. Conversely, you can also create your own talking ringtone by recording your own voice in the phone with the red Record button.
  Click the selection tool or use shortcut Ctrl + F1 this tool allows you to select any part of the .mp3 file, and cut and paste from the sound file. Clicking once in a part of the sound file and then clicking play means Audacity will start playing the sound file from that point.
  

• Step 4 Navigate to the part that of the song which you would like to cut, and then cut using the shortcut Ctrl + X* and move sideways to paste your cut out section, using Ctrl + V.
  From here, you can save and export.
  

Copy the new part, then copy or cut by pressing Edit>> cut/copy or use short cut , Ctrl + C* or Ctrl + X. Then click new or use shortcut Ctrl + N and paste your new Mp3 (ringtone) there.

• Step 5. To export your into File > Export. Select MP3 file. This will prompt you to locate a file called lame_enc.dll. You can download it HERE, this helps to export the audio in mp3 format.
  

You can even edit the details to be shown on your file.

your mp3 is located in documents folder under Audacity folder. Now, all you have to do is copy and paste it into your phone. Then go into your phone settings and select your ringtone MP3 file as your ringtone! You’re done.
you have made your very own mp3 ringtone for free with these esy steps using the open source project Audacity

In conclusion i would highly recommend Audacity for your Audio engineering/ professional recording works. It is a very powerful tool which is free to use.

you can download the official Audacity from the Official Website
Audacity® was and it still is a clean, free, open source software for the last 16 years! There's a whole dedicated team working on a daily basis so,if you like to help in donating to help and encourage them to release new, better, improved versions in the future.
Therefore, you can donate for an excellent piece of software at the Official Website
You can check the Official Github link HERE for developers whom would love to help improve the project.

Series

This is the first series for my blog on Audacity, watch out for the next series which would be more about making podcast easily with Audacity and copying audio files from Disk to Flash Drive.

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