Audacity Reference Manual

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Audacity 3.7 Reference Manual

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Guide to the Audacity Project Window

1 Menu Bar 2 Transport Toolbar 3 Tools Toolbar 4 Edit Toolbar 5 Audio Setup Toolbar 6 Sharing & Effects Toolbar

7 Recording Meter Toolbar 8 Playback Meter Toolbar 9 Timeline context menu 10 Timeline

11 Track Control Panel 12 Vertical Scale 13 Audio Track 14 Label Track

15 Time Signature Toolbar 16 Snapping Toolbar 17 Time Toolbar 18 Selection Toolbar 19 Play-at-Speed Toolbar 20 Status Bar

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Additional Menus on Mac

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Audacity Fundamentals

Managing Audacity Projects - Audacity's internal workspace
Preferences - changing your settings
Toolbars Overview - including how to arrange Toolbars
Resetting Audacity to default settings - Preferences, Toolbars and Export settings
Keyboard shortcuts
Mouse bindings
Effects, Generators and Analyzers
- Plugin Manager - add/remove Effects, Generators and Analyzers
Macros - for batch processing and effects automation
Nyquist - for scripting and creating plugins

Audacity Tracks

Audio Tracks
Label Tracks
Note Tracks (MIDI) - these contain data from MIDI (and Allegro) files
Time Tracks - used for varying speed control
Mixer - analogous to a hardware mixer board

Index, Glossary and More

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