It's
been around for some time, but seems to fly under the radar. For people
that are just getting into sound editing, for podcasting or just for
fun, the free cross-platform Audacity
is worth a download. It has more than enough features to keep you
busily hacking together audio files. It features recording,
import/export, splicing and editing, and effects, and has a plug-in
system that makes it extensible. Oh, and did I mention that it's free?
If you're looking for a way to record and edit sound on your computer,
be it a PC, Mac or Linux box, this might be your solution. And if
you're looking for a fun audio project, find yourself a 2 year-old, and
coach them through saying a greeting for your answering machine,
preferably using lots of long words. As long as you can record one or a
few words at a time, you're set; just edit it all together after the
fact. Free Sound Editing with Audacity
It's
been around for some time, but seems to fly under the radar. For people
that are just getting into sound editing, for podcasting or just for
fun, the free cross-platform Audacity
is worth a download. It has more than enough features to keep you
busily hacking together audio files. It features recording,
import/export, splicing and editing, and effects, and has a plug-in
system that makes it extensible. Oh, and did I mention that it's free?
If you're looking for a way to record and edit sound on your computer,
be it a PC, Mac or Linux box, this might be your solution. And if
you're looking for a fun audio project, find yourself a 2 year-old, and
coach them through saying a greeting for your answering machine,
preferably using lots of long words. As long as you can record one or a
few words at a time, you're set; just edit it all together after the
fact. 
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
8-07-2005 @ 10:17PM
josh said...
lot and lots of free audio software is availible at http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/ - enough stuff do to pretty much anything you want.
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8-08-2005 @ 1:49PM
Victor Agreda, Jr. said...
The only problem I had with Audacity is that it prefers everything to be the same sample rate. Otherwise it'll speed up or slow down the audio (well, plays it at the native rate, but doesn't remix well).
Also, when I tried to convert a WAV to MP3 (using LAME) on OSX it constantly crashed. Not exactly great for podcasting that way...
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