Introduction to

Audacity & audio editing

Importing Sound

File > Import > Audio

Select the sound you want and Open

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Play

Stop
Pause

Record

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Selection Tool: selects a segment of a track
Envelope Tool: allows quick adjustments of volume

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Selection Tool

Highlighted
Area

Make sure the Selection Tool is selected

Use the Mouse and highlight the sound on the track you
want to edit or delete
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Envelope Tool

Make sure the Envelope Tool is selected blue lines

will appear

Drag the Blue lines in or out to change the volume of the

whole track
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Click Here

Where I clicked to move in the line, white circles appear

Click inside the blue line near the white circle
The volume will no longer be a straight line meaning the
volume will change.
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Zoom Tool: allows you to shift your view(to zoom in or out)
Time Shift Tool: moves clips along the timeline

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Zoom Tool

Make sure the Zoom tool is selected

Click on the track with the magnifying glass
Keep clicking until you are zoomed in as close as you
want to be.
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Timeshift Tool
The Timeshift tool is
for when you have
more than one track
Make sure the
Timeshift Tool is
selected
Move the track to
where you want

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Cut

Copy

Paste

Trim

Zoom
Silence
Undo Redo

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Deleting Sound

Selected
Area
that will
be
deleted

Using the Selection Tool select the sound you want to

delete
Press the Delete key on your keyboard or click on the
cut tool
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Effects

To have fun with the

sound, select Effect
Select an Effect from
the menu
Play around with the
settings for each
effect to see what
they do
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Exporting to an audio file

Here we export our

Podcast to an audio file
to share it with others on
the internet...

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