Audacity

How to use Audacity

Aiden YehWen Zao Ursuline College of Foreign

Languages, Taiwan

Mixing Musichttp://www.freeplaymusic.com/

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Save on your hard

drive/usb

flash drive

Creating your show using Audacity

Download this sound editing software at http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/windows

Working with audacity

1. Go to File, click ‘Save as…’ and save your work on your hard drive.2. Click File again, and click ‘Open’ file3. Look for the music that you downloaded from Freeplaymusic.com4. Upload music. (You will now see it on the track.)

Splitting the track1. Click on the title of the track

2. Click, Split Stereo track

Deleting the 2nd track

Delete the second track

Start recording

2. Click ‘record’ button, to record voice.

1. Put the cursor at the end of the sound track

3. If you already have your voice recording ready for upload, simply, click ‘File’ and click ‘open’4. The file will automatically be uploaded to the track.

Adding voice recording

Your opening music

Your ending music

Your voice recording/student’s audio file

Effects

1. Highlight the part of the track where your voice recording is or up to the part you wish to add effects on.

2. To make the audio louder, click ‘Effects’ and click Amplify.

Amplify

Change speed

Add ‘music’ to finish up your show. You could simply copy

your intro music and paste it here.

How to copy and paste

Highlight the part you wish to copy

and click on the ‘copy’ button

Put the cursor where you want to paste your audio Click the ‘paste’

button

Saving your project

Save your project

Export your work as MP3 file

Looking for your finished product

Audacity working file Produced mp3 file