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USING AUDACITY

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A guide compiled by Park View City Learning Centre to help

teachers use emerging technologies to enhance teaching and

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Toolbars

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Editing Tools

: 1,1 Selection tool - for selecting the range of audio you want to edit or listen to.

~I Envelope tool - for changing the volume over time.

i lJ -I Draw tool - for modifying individual samples.

! pi Zoom tool - for zooming in and out.

,;:1 Timeshift tool - for sliding tracks left or right.

*1 Multi tool - lets you access all of these tools at once depending on the location of the

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Audio Control Buttons

I¿J.-.. .' Skip to Star - moves the cursor to time o. If you press Play at this point, your

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r-', . Record - stars recording ~udio at the project samp~e rate .(the sample rate in the

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the window). The new track will begin at the curent curor

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t~ Pause - temporaly stops playback or reording until you press pause again.

i. .:J. ! Stop - stops recording or playing. You must do this before applying effects,

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i_,~i... Skip to End - moves the cursor to the end of

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Mixer Toolbar

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The Mixer Toolbar has three controls, used to set the volume levels of

your audio device

and choose the input source. The leftmost slider controls the playback volume, the otherslider controls the recording volume, and the control on the right lets you choose theinput source (such as "Microphone", "Line In", "Audio CD", etc.). Use the Record Level

Meter to set the correct leveL.

Changing these controls has no effect on the audio data in your project - in other words itdoesn't matter what the output volume level is when you Export or Save a project - the

end result is the same.

Edit Toolbar

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All of the buttons on this toolbar perform actions - and with a couple of exceptions,

they're all just shortcuts of existing menu items to save you time.

Holding the mouse over a tool wil show a "tooltip" in case you forget which one is

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~I Paste

rlUl Trim away the audio outside the selection