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.
I would love to teach this simple steps in the next series of this blog,stay tuned for the next series
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®
Basic Information Of The Home Interface of Audacity
- Menu Bar
- Transport Toolbar
- Tools Toolbar
- Recording Meter Toolbar
- Playback Meter Toolbar
- Mixer Toolbar
- Edit Toolbar
- Transcription Toolbar
- Device Toolbar
- Unpinned Play/Recording Head
- Timeline
- Scrub Ruler
- Track Control Panel
- Audio Track
System Requirement For Audacity
| 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.
Recommendation For Beginners
It's recommened to change the program preference of audacity for a better audio output. follow the following screenshots to do this.
Click the edit tab at the top left corner of the Audacity screen and select preference or use the shortcut Ctrl+P Click on the dialog box in from of Host and change to Windows DirectSound Click Ok and you are done.
Conclusion
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.
Some Relevant Links For Audacity.
Audacity Translators Community
Series
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