Audacity
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{{Infobox_Software2 |name = Audacity |logo = Image:Audacity logo.jpg |screenshot = Image:Audacity-macosx.png |caption = Audacity screenshot on Mac OS X |developer = The Audacity Team |operating_system = Cross-platform |genre = Digital audio editor |license = GPL |website = audacity.sourceforge.net }}
Audacity is a free digital audio editor that runs on the Linux/Unix, Mac OS 9/Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems. The source code for Audacity is released under the GNU General Public License. The graphical user interface for the editor has been produced using the wxWidgets library.
Audacity is extremely popular in the podcasting world due to its wide availability, its multiplatform support, and free pricing.
Features
Some of Audacity's features include:
- Importing and exporting WAV, MP3 (via the LAME MP3 Encoder, downloaded separately), Ogg Vorbis, and other file formats
- Recording and playing sounds
- Editing via Cut, Copy, Paste (with unlimited Undo)
- Multi-track mixing
- Digital effects and effect plug-ins
- Amplitude envelope editing
- Noise removal
- Support for multichannel modes with sampling rates up to 96 kHz with 24 bits per sample
- The ability to make precise adjustments to the audio's speed, while maintaining pitch, in order to synch it with video, run for the right length of time, etc. Unlike many other programs, Audacity seems to have very few audible artifacts (doubling, or chorus type effects) when lengthening or shortening a file. However, it is not in real time.
See also
External links
Animation sound track mostly recorded with Audacity
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