Audacity 3.0.0 features an improved 'Noise Gate' effect and a new analyser 'Label Sounds' that can label sounds and silences. It is now possible to import and export macros. There are new commands for using the last used tool or last used analyser that you can give shortcuts to. Audacity tidak akan mengecewakan jika anda memerlukan software yang dapat merakam secara langsung, menukar kaset atau memotong dan mencampurkan suara. Audacity 3.0.0 RC06. Features: Recording Audacity can record live audio through a microphone or mixer, or digitize recordings from other media. Export / Import Import, edit, and combine sound files.
A classic Windows tool that has been loved by many
Audio editing app Audacity is a classic Windows tool that has been loved by many - at this stage, practically for generations. It’s not slick and it’s not pretty, but it does a basic job (editing audio tracks) exceedingly well. Compare it to pay-for options and you’ll see that for a free program, it’s really very impressive.
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A classic audio editor that deserves its good reputation
For quick and dirty (and free) audio editing, you couldn’t ask for more
Audacity has held a spot at the top of the audio editing charts since 1999 (!) and with good reason. This open-source software looks dated, old-fashioned, and frankly unattractive, but can edit an audio file professionally and quickly despite the fact that it’s entirely free.
What Audacity lacks in looks, it makes up for in pure functionality. It can edit audio, record live and computer playback. It cuts, copies, splices and mixes audio; adds effects to tracks, (like silences, fades, and reverbs); and supports a variety of plug-ins, including LADSPA, LV2, Nyquist, VST and Audio Unit.
We’ve already touched on how it’s not the most attractive program, but does offer a very familiar interface, so anyone who has used a computer program in the last 10 years will probably be able to find their way around pretty quickly. It will take a fairly sharp learning curve to decipher what, exactly, all the buttons do, but the Audacity developers have predicted this and offer a lot of help and educational resources online.
Audacity natively deals with WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP2, MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files which is an ok selection, but not superb. To deal with more modern files, like MA4, you’ll have to convert them online or download additional libraries from the Audacity site. While you’re over there, check out the tutorials section. It takes a little wading around but talks you right through many of the most common (and less common) tasks you might want to do with the program. In the long run, it will save you lots of time.
If you’re old-school, Audacity offers 2 features you’ll likefirstly, the program lets you convert tape and record...um...recordings into digital tracks (if you have the correct equipment), and offers really good keyboard support for commands. Once you get to grips with the program it will make the editing process much faster.
In all, Audacity is never going to replace professional audio studio software. It's great, but it's not polished and most of the edits you can perform are destructive. If you need to do anything elegant or delicate, it's probably not going to be the best software to help you, but if you need to do a quick polish of a podcast, for example, or take some blank spaces out of a recording, it will do just fine.
Where can you run this program?
This version is for Windows and Audacity is also available for Mac and Linux.
Is there a better alternative?
Sure, there are plenty of alternatives to Audacity. It’s important to remember that Audacity is free and open source. If you pay for your audio editor, it will look and feel much nicer but you have, after all, paid for it. If we stick to free versions, Ocenaudio and Wavosaur are two very popular alternatives. Depending on exactly what you need to do with your audio, you'll find that they're just right, or a little too simple. In the event they're too simple, then Audacity might have exactly what you need.
If you're assessing from the other side, you can also get a free trial of Adobe Audition, which will demonstrate what exactly you’re sacrificing by choosing freeware like Audacity.
Our take
Unattractive as it is, Audacity has definite charm. It’s functional and effective and can do basic jobs very well. It also offers a lot of features and, if you can take the time to learn to do them properly, it should give you good results. We imagine that the best use case for the software is someone who really does need to do some audio editing, like a podcast editor on a budget. With a definite project, you should be able to get the results you want (or close to them) from Audacity as long as you have the right motivation. For casual jobs or a quick look, we don’t think many are going to fall in love.
Should you download it?
Yes. If you’re on a budget but need to do some serious audio editing, then set aside some time and give it a go. If you’re a window shopper or need only very basic edits, then we think you should look somewhere else.
Highs
- Take audio from multiple sources
- Batch edit
- Noise reduction features good
Lows
- Tends towards destructive editing
- Audio quality not top end
- Doesn't support a wide variety of file types
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3.0.0
Audacity is a free, open source digital audio editor and recording application. Edit your sounds using cut, copy, and paste features (with unlimited undo functionality), mix tracks, or apply effects to your recordings. The program also has a built-in amplitude-envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode, and a frequency-analysis window for audio-analysis applications. Built-in effects include bass boost, wah wah, and noise removal, and the program also supports VST plug-in effects.
You can use Audacity to:
- Record live audio.
- Record computer playback on any Windows Vista or later machine.
- Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
- Edit WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP2, MP3 or Ogg Vorbis sound files.
- AC3, M4A/M4R (AAC), WMA and other formats supported using optional libraries.
- Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together.
- Numerous effects including change the speed or pitch of a recording.
- Write your own plug-in effects with Nyquist.
- And more! See the complete list of features.
Audacity 3.0.2 release notes:
Better Diagnostics:
- As well as bug fixing we have also added more detailed reporting into Audacity to track down some hopefully not too common problems with the new format we introduced in 3.0.0. If you see an unexpected error message with a “Show Log…” button on it, please send the log to feedback@audacityteam.org, tell us how the problem happened, and whether it’s repeatable. We think, but do not know for sure yet, that some problems some users of 3.0.0 have had may be caused by networked drives which are slower than drives on the same laptop. We’ve increased a ‘timeout’ which should fix that.
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Macro Output:
- Users of the Macro feature in Audacity to process multiple files will find there is a new preference, Macro output, for where the results are put. The old way of doing things put the results with the files being processed. You can still do that if you want to keep doing it that way by adding an extra step in your macros.
Untangling Code:
- In parallel with 3.0.2 and 3.0.0 work, we’ve been doing a lot of other work on Audacity on another branch that is for the future and not in 3.0.2. Paul Licameli has been untangling dependencies in Audacity and making many graphs of the structure to guide what to untangle next. If code is hard to work with, we work more slowly. These changes to untangle the code should make Audacity more flexible, and make it easier to work with the code. We kept these changes out of 3.0.0 and 3.0.2, as the changes were substantial and the important aup3 work took precedence. Hopefully the more flexible cleaner structure will be a big win for future versions of Audacity.
Bug Fixes:
- 3.0.2 has some simple to do but important bug fixes. The compressor effect was not working for longer selections. We were also very occasionally getting an error messages at start up of Audacity, requiring a restart of Audacity. You can read more about what we did for 3.0.2 on the New Features page of the manual.
Download page: Audacity 3.0.2 | 28.2 MB (Open Source)
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