Whenever you read a guide to manipulate audio or to record and capture music from your computer, the first program that is always reported and explained is Audacity, one of the most popular and historic open source programs that is still updated and released for free even today for commercial purposes.
From a technical point of view, Audacity is certainly the best free software to capture live and real-time audio, which can also be used to convert music on 45 rpm discs or on old music cassettes in digital format.
Audacity, which we can all download for free and in Italian for Windows, for Linux and for Mac, has now reached version 2.2.0, becoming easier to use, with a more user friendly interface and with more functions, especially for manipulation of MP3s.
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Reading the complete list of all the features you can understand the effective power and versatility of this program with which you can: edit audio files in various formats, cut, copy, divide and mix audio files, recording from microphones, input lines and other sources including streaming, mixing existing tracks to create multitrack recordings, recording up to 16 channels simultaneously, monitoring volume levels before, during and after recording.
Countless effects with which you can manipulate an audio file : changing the pitch without altering the speed, or vice versa, removing various types of background noise, altering the frequencies with the equalizer, FFT filtering and "BassBoost" effect, volume adjustment with the Compressor, Amplify and Normalize effects, other effects such as Echo, Phaser, WahWah, Reverse.
Making an extreme summary, the main functions of Audacity are:
With Audacity version 2.1, support for WMA, M4A and AC3 formats was included, as well as the ability to import audio from any video using FFmpeg and record streaming audio streams via the internet and from iTunes.
Audacity 2.2.0, on the other hand, in addition to presenting itself with a new logo and different graphic themes to choose from (going to Edit> Preferences> Interface> Theme, also has the menus rearranged (so some guides may not be exactly exact) and the ability to export projects in MP3 or WAV format .
To download Audacity, free, latest version and in Italian, you can go to the official AudacityTeam website with an installer file of just 20 Mega. The complete guide is available on the same site and also within the program, even if it is in English.
On the internet you can find a manual in Italian, even if it is not updated for the latest version.
New users can download the plugins available to improve the functionality of the audio editor, including the most important, the Lame MP3 encoder to support the saving of MP3 files.
In other articles, some guides for Audacity :
From a technical point of view, Audacity is certainly the best free software to capture live and real-time audio, which can also be used to convert music on 45 rpm discs or on old music cassettes in digital format.
Audacity, which we can all download for free and in Italian for Windows, for Linux and for Mac, has now reached version 2.2.0, becoming easier to use, with a more user friendly interface and with more functions, especially for manipulation of MP3s.
READ ALSO: Best audio editor programs to edit music and recordings
Reading the complete list of all the features you can understand the effective power and versatility of this program with which you can: edit audio files in various formats, cut, copy, divide and mix audio files, recording from microphones, input lines and other sources including streaming, mixing existing tracks to create multitrack recordings, recording up to 16 channels simultaneously, monitoring volume levels before, during and after recording.
Countless effects with which you can manipulate an audio file : changing the pitch without altering the speed, or vice versa, removing various types of background noise, altering the frequencies with the equalizer, FFT filtering and "BassBoost" effect, volume adjustment with the Compressor, Amplify and Normalize effects, other effects such as Echo, Phaser, WahWah, Reverse.
Making an extreme summary, the main functions of Audacity are:
- Record live audio from a microphone, mixer and other sources.
- Import and export of sound files to edit and combine them with other files or new recordings, in many different formats.
- Audio Editor, with Cut, Copy, Paste and Delete functions, to mix tracks, turn the volume up or down.
- Adding special effects with external plugins, which allow you to change the pitch, change the tempo, reduce noise, isolate the song, distortion, echo and much more.
- Spectrograms display mode for frequency selection.
With Audacity version 2.1, support for WMA, M4A and AC3 formats was included, as well as the ability to import audio from any video using FFmpeg and record streaming audio streams via the internet and from iTunes.
Audacity 2.2.0, on the other hand, in addition to presenting itself with a new logo and different graphic themes to choose from (going to Edit> Preferences> Interface> Theme, also has the menus rearranged (so some guides may not be exactly exact) and the ability to export projects in MP3 or WAV format .
To download Audacity, free, latest version and in Italian, you can go to the official AudacityTeam website with an installer file of just 20 Mega. The complete guide is available on the same site and also within the program, even if it is in English.
On the internet you can find a manual in Italian, even if it is not updated for the latest version.
New users can download the plugins available to improve the functionality of the audio editor, including the most important, the Lame MP3 encoder to support the saving of MP3 files.
In other articles, some guides for Audacity :
- how to record music from a vinyl LP disc or from an audio cassette and bring it to your pc in mp3 file format;
- how to remove the voice from a song to remove the count from a music
- Record music from radio or websites
- Normalize mp3 volume
- Transcribe an audio recording under dictation
- Record audio and sound on PC from microphone, web or other sources
- Cut, join and split mp3 and audio files
- How to record with Audacity from PC, microphone or external
