Audacity - sound examples by using Audacity

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Permalink Reply by 1x2nbseym7ijt on December 22, 2010 at 9:20am

Geez I wish I had some good things to say about Audacity. Sure, it's free, but I can only load one audio file at a time or it will open in a new window. Cross-fading between two clips is therefore not supported, neither are VST plugins. I encourage everyone to acquire it, because we all need decent audio software, and this thing is doing the job fine. I just like more bells and whistles, if you will.

Permalink Reply by 1x2nbseym7ijt on December 22, 2010 at 9:23am

Oh, my current Audio suite is Adobe Audition 3.0, which does MIDI, multitrack, advanced waveform editing, spectral displays, crossfades, generates tones, loads any and all kinds of plugins and rips CD audio as well as extracting audio from video files. I use it to edit foley tracks for my videos, if they need them and mix everything with music. I would share the results, but YouTube has blocked the audio in Northern America due to "copyright" issues.

Permalink Reply by Jens Mügge on December 22, 2010 at 9:55am

Hi Dan,

 

I am a beginner using audio software. Yes, it is true that you can load only one audio file at a time. But you can create various stereo track lines at a time for one file. From the the other open window you can export the audio via copy and paste from the one into the other window. In this way you can mix various files too. Maybe complicated and if you have the licence for Adobe Audition 3.0 you can work of course with much more comfort on your PC. Yeah, I am writing about working with Windows and not a Mac. As a beginner it makes fun to "play" with audacity and make my first steps. I don't know if cross-fadingis not supported. There is one effect in the latest audacity version.But anyway I opened a new thread here in this group as a backlink to Marco Tonini's first post about free audio software. I like audacity because if you check out all functions carefully it is fine to use it as a beginner.