{"id":2160,"date":"2011-01-17T13:23:12","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T17:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=3928"},"modified":"2023-09-23T09:30:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T13:30:51","slug":"audacity-digital-editing-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2011\/01\/audacity-digital-editing-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Audacity digital editing software"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Audacity-logo-r_50pct.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Audacity-logo-r_50pct\" width=\"150\" height=\"59\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2188\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Audacity-logo-r_50pct-150x59.jpg\" alt=\"Audacity logo\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Audacity-logo-r_50pct-150x59.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Audacity-logo-r_50pct.jpg 253w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Audacity is the name of a free digital audio editing software package distributed by Sourceforge. It is distributed under Version 2 of GPL without exceptions. \u00a0 It does require a .mp3 plug-in to generate mp3 files. \u00a0According to the Sourceforge website:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Audacity was started by Dominic Mazzoni and Roger Dannenberg in the fall of 1999 at Carnegie Mellon University. It was released as open-source software at SourceForge.net in May of 2000&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and&nbsp;multilingual audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU\/Linux and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Record live audio.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Change the speed or pitch of a recording.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The full list of features is available<a href=\"http:\/\/audacity.sourceforge.net\/about\/features\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, I have downloaded a copy and installed it on my test machine in the basement (hardware requirements here). \u00a0My test machine is a stripped-out P4 2.4 GHz Windows XP box that I can isolate from the network and experiment with. \u00a0On that machine with a digigram VX-880 soundcard, Audacity did very well. \u00a0I did not record multi-track, but with 24-bit sound sampled at 48 KHz, the computer kept up nicely. \u00a0The basic editing features are intuitive and easy to manipulate with a mouse and keypad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a quick-to-install <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/audacity.sourceforge.net\/about\/features\" target=\"_blank\">downloadable<\/a> program, it does very well. \u00a0Does it do everything like Adobe Audition or other professional editing software suite does? No. \u00a0But for the price, it can&#8217;t be beat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Audacity is the name of a free digital audio editing software package distributed by Sourceforge. It is distributed under Version 2 of GPL without exceptions. \u00a0 It does require a .mp3 plug-in to generate mp3 files. \u00a0According to the Sourceforge website: The full list of features is available here. So, I have downloaded a copy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2011\/01\/audacity-digital-editing-software\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Audacity digital editing software<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[179,178],"class_list":["post-2160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","tag-digital-editor","tag-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2160"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12455,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions\/12455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}