So I'm back again for my second summer assignment blog post. When I was reading the guidelines for this assignment I realized that I had never really tried any pure audio based editing software. When I say that I mean I have worked in Premier pro where I've had to trim audio and cut it, but never anything like Audacity which is what I decided to try. Now I went into this completely blind and lucky for me everything on the user interface is super simplistic so if I can figure it out on my own I'm pretty sure anybody could. So the main tools are in the top left of the program, pause, play, stop, skip to beginning, skip to end, and most important record (there are some other tools to he right of that but I will over those later). These tools are your best friend so going through each of them one by one, the pause button will pause your recording instantly and if you press record again after it was paused it will pick up right where you left off. The play button is mostly for listening to your audio after it has been recorded. The skip buttons are for after it has been recorded you can either skip to the beginning or the end of the audio track. Finally, the record button is for starting and stopping your recording if you are using a microphone. Another thing that I found out was if you record a second audio track it will go at the same time as the first one similar to the different audio channels in Premier. This is useful for a song producer if they wanted to import the beat to a song and have the lyrics go over the beat. Now there weer some little tools to the right of the big ones but the only one that I found really useful was the selection tool that would allow you to highlight a part of the audio track. The other tools that I mentioned before are the cut, copy and paste tools which can take bits of the track and allow you to move them around through the audio channels. So once I started recording audio bits, I found myself adjusting the volume of those track by the designated volume slider to the left of the track and it let me find a good balance between the track so that one wasn't overpowering the other. Overall, I found that Audacity was super simple to use and I actually really enjoyed making fun little song with it, I would definitely recommend it to people who want to get into music or audio production as it's free and super simple to get into.
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