Audacity Tutorial 1 of 25 - How to Create a New Project in Audacity

Welcome to Tutorial 1 of 25 - How to Create a New Project in Audacity 

Creating a new project in Audacity is very easy. When you first start Audacity it will automatically start a new project for you.

If you have Audacity running and you want to create a new project you just need to go to the FILE menu and select NEW.

At the end of this post is a transcript of this video.

Learn Audacity Series

These video tutorials will show you how to use the software Audacity. Contained in this resource are 25 video tutorials, 4 activities and 3 projects. Each video is accompanied by a PDF guide to the concept, for those learners who prefer a text-based resource, as well as a transcript of each video.

I suggest that you proceed through the tutorials and activities in the order provided below, but you are able to explore freely.

This resource contains three projects which are intended to have you explore the highest levels of cognitive activities as you create with Audacity. These projects are best worked on once the tutorials have been completed, but we suggest that you review these projects before you begin working through the tutorials to provide a context for your learning.

The following is a list of all the Audacity tutorials and activities found in this video series

TUTORIALS
1 How to Create a New Audacity Project

2 How to Open or Import Audio Files in Audacity

3 What are Audacity Tracks

4 Audacity Transport Controls

5 How to Save an Audacity Project

6 How to Record

7 How to Set Input Volume Levels

8 How to Export MP3 and WAV Files

9 How to Select and Delete Sound

ACTIVITY 1 - My First Recording

10 How to use Undo and History in Audacity

11 How to Use the Zoom Tools

12 How to Use the Time Shift Tool

13 How to Use the Change Pitch Effect

ACTIVITY 2 - Make Your Voice Sound Like a Chipmunk

14 How to Use the Fade In & Fade Out Effects

15 How to Download Sound Samples from the Internet

16 How to Use the Amplify Effect

17 How to Edit Metadata

18 How to Multitrack Record

19 How to Use a Click Track

ACTIVITY 3 - Multitrack Recording in Audacity - Beatbox

20 How to Make Silence

21 How to Use the Change Tempo Effect

22 How to Use the Equalization Effect

23 How to Reverse Sound

24 Stereo Mono

ACTIVITY 4 - How to Mess Up a Piece of Music

25 How to Remove Vocals from a Recording

SETUP TUTORIALS
SETUP 1 How to Install Audacity

SETUP 2 How to Configure Recording and Playback Hardware

SETUP 3 How to Install the LAME Encoder

PROJECTS 
PROJECT 1 - Create a Halloween Soundscape

PROJECT 2 - Interview a Superhero

PROJECT 3 - Create a Radio Play

Transcript

0:00:06

Hello creators. In this short tutorial I am going to show you how to create a new

0:00:11

blank audacity project.

0:00:13

This is very very easy to do.

0:00:15

There is actually two ways to do it. The first way is you just start audacity.

0:00:19

When you start audacity it will create a blank project for you, as you can

0:00:23

see right here on the desktop.

0:00:25

So this is ready to record or import audio. It is ready to use.

0:00:29

Assuming that you don't have a blank project in front of you. I am going to close this one.

0:00:35

Now you have no project, so what are you going to do? Well, this is really easy.

0:00:38

All you need to do is go to the FILE menu and go down to NEW.

0:00:42

There you go, it gives you a blank project ready to record or edit. So there

0:00:47

go, there is nothing to it. This is very easy stuff.

 

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