Tuckster
157 posts
Apr 07, 2009
6:03 AM
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@Elwood--You might want to do a forum search. There was a long and eventually over my head discussion about Audacity.
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Buzadero
56 posts
Apr 07, 2009
6:42 AM
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Love the Audacity.
I have several friends that I've played with over the years. Guys I've met while on a job nowhere near my home. Audacity has allowed us to send tracks back and forth to build up tunes without playing together.
Example: Greg does a drum thing. Greg emails the track to Paul. Paul lays down a bass track next to it, and forwards it to Andy to do some guitar. Andy sends it to me to shovel some harp onto another track. Everyone then reviews it and has the option of redoing their own track(s). It can be fun.
From a techno nerd perspective, I'm sure some overly critical geek can find fault with any software program if they look. But, I'd rather goof around and try to make something work. Try to remember that some great music has been saved for posterity on some very rough recording methods.
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DaDoom
71 posts
Apr 07, 2009
7:16 AM
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I've used Audacity quite a few times and it's e great software for editing sound files. I didn't know that you can actually slow down stuff with it. Hmmm where's that function hid?
I wonder if garage band (Mac) is good for that too. I have played around with it but really never tried to slow down/speed up stuff with it. I have noticed that the recording quality is really poor with the built in mic. I wonder if I could just buy a mic and plug it into my MacBook but I suppose I need some sort of device (amp or whatever) to plug in between. Would be nice to record my own blues tracks (guitar and harp) :)
Last Edited by on Apr 07, 2009 7:19 AM
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Elwood
14 posts
Apr 07, 2009
9:24 AM
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Possibly it's a feature introduced in their new beta version release: it's under .
If it's a new feature, then I won't feel like a fool for reintroducing old forum topics.
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Jim Rumbaugh
26 posts
Apr 07, 2009
9:49 AM
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I have used both the pitch correction ( change keys ) and the tempo change ( slow down ) with Audacity. I use the old on my Desktop and the new beta on my laptop. So I know those effects are on one or both.
By the way. Projects saved in the old version can not be opened with the new version.
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isaacullah
164 posts
Apr 07, 2009
1:31 PM
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I got in trouble on another thread for being too passionate about Audacity. I just want to point out that there are several other really nice opensource audio softwares out there. Here's a centrally archived link list to all the open source audio software out there http://apps.linuxaudio.org/. There are other "free" audio software, but all these have a GPL liscence, which means they are free as in "free speech" as well as free as in "you don't gotta pay".
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mr_so&so
77 posts
Apr 07, 2009
1:54 PM
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@isaac Here's another free one that isn't on the linuxaudio.org list: Sonic Visualiser (www.sonicvisualiser.org). It's similar to Audacity in some ways, but I think better. Anyway I've been using it as a "slowdowner".
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