Some more advanced editing tools will also be mentioned such as loudness normalization and noise reduction. By the end of the class, you will gather basic knowledge of how to import, record, edit and export your audio project with Audacity.

This class introduces the basic and essential concepts and interface of Audacity. It includes powerful audio post-production tools to help create professional podcasts and music. * Cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together.Audacity is an open source, free and easy to use audio editor and recorder. * Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files. * Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs. * Large array of plug-ins available In this free online Audacity Course you will learn to: * Record live audio. * Unlike many other programs, Audacity has very few audible artifacts (doubling, or chorus type effects) when lengthening or shortening a file. * The ability to make precise adjustments to the audio's speed, while maintaining pitch, in order to synchronise it with video, run for the right length of time, etc. * Support for multichannel modes with sampling rates up to 96 kHz with 24 bits per sample Additional effects can be written with Nyquist * Editing via Cut, Copy, Paste (with unlimited Undo) * Importing and exporting WAV, MP3 (via the LAME MP3 Encoder, downloaded separately), Ogg Vorbis, and other file formats Audacity is extremely popular in the podcasting world due to its wide availability, multiplatform support, and the fact that it is free.

Dominc Mazzoni is still the main developer and maintainer of Audacity, with help from many others around the world. Audacity was created by Dominic Mazzoni of Google, while he was a graduate student at Carnegie-Mellon University. Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.

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