User manual AUDACITY AUDACITY VERSION 1.2

[. . . ] Audacity Manual Title Page Welcome to the v1. 2 Manual Click here to continue or whack the logo Want to know How to use this manual ? 1 Audacity Manual Title Page Introduction Tutorials Reference What's New FAQ Credits v1. 2 Introduction What's New in Audacity 1. 2 How to use this manual Tutorials I. Selecting and Aligning Reference Menus Toolbars Tracks Preferences Keyboard Shortcuts 2 Audacity Manual Title Page Creating and Editing Shortcuts Effects - How they work Frequently Asked Questions Credits Index of Terms 3 Audacity Manual Title Page Back to the main page Introduction in this document. Experienced users should head down to this section Audacity . . . For new users to Audacity, see the Tutorial in five parts for some basics on digital audio, setting up Audacity, selecting, aligning, and recording. [. . . ] To cut out only part of the audio in a track, use Delete or Silence. Align functions All the align functions work on whole tracks or groups of tracks, NOT on selections, even if they span across multiple tracks. Please read the tutorial on how to use the align functions. You will also find some creative uses and solutions to common problems there. These functions operate on each track individually. If more than one track is selected, these functions do not preserve their position to one another. Align with Zero Align End with Cursor Aligns the start of any selected tracks to the start Aligns the end of any selected tracks to the cursor of the project. position. Align with Cursor Aligns the start of any selected tracks to the cursor position. Align End with Selection Start Aligns the end of any selected tracks to the start of the current selection 72 Audacity Manual Title Page Align with Selection Start Align End with Selection End Aligns the start of any selected tracks to the start Aligns the end of any selected tracks to the end of the current selection of the current selection Align with Selection End Aligns the start of any selected tracks to the end of the current selection Align Tracks Together If you select multiple tracks, this command adjusts their time offset so that they start at the same time. It adjusts their starting time to the average of all of the tracks' original starting times. To adjust the time offset of one track, use the Time Shift tool. Align and Move Cursor These commands work just like the align commands with the move cursor command immediately following it. Add Label at Selection This menu item lets you create a new label at the current selection. You can title the label by typing Add Label at Selection with the keyboard and then hitting "Enter" when you're done. The label saves your current Like Add Label at Selection but the label is added selection - so when you click on the label later it at the current position during playback. will return the selection to the state it was in when you created the label. See the discussion on Label tracks for more information on how to use label tracks. 73 Audacity Manual Title Page Back to the main page Back to the Reference page 74 Audacity Manual Title Page Back to the main page Back to the Reference page FileEditViewProjectGenerateEffectAnalyze Generate Menu Silence Inserts silence. The length is determined by the length of your selection and the position by the left boundary of your selection. Tone Inserts a wave of chosen type, frequency and amplitude. The length is determined by the length of your selection and the position by the left boundary of your selection. If no selection is made, the default length inserted If no selection is made, the default length inserted at the cursor position is 30 seconds. For example, to insert a two seconds of silence at Parameters: a certain point, place the cursor at your chosen spot, hold the SHIFT key down, click and drag your mouse to the right to mark roughly two Waveform Sine, Square, Sawtooth seconds, release the mouse button and activate Frequency(Hz) 1-20000 (value below 1. 0 and the Silence function in the Generate menu. above 20000 will be corrected to Silence, the length of your selection, will be 1. 0 and 20000!) inserted at the left boundary of your selection. Amplitude 0-1 - This is the volume of the generated wave. White Noise Pluck Inserts white noise. The length is determined by Inserts a synthesized pluck tone. The length is the length of your selection and the position by determined by the length of your selection and the left boundary of your selection. 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