AudacityLive is at East Oxford Community Centre. June 10, 2018 Oxford, United Kingdom So we are super excited about a string of upcoming gigs through this month: highlights being the first ever GloFest next weekend and concluding with our first full Audacity edition at Cowley Road Carnival in the EOCC lounge on July 1st.
Free and open-source multi-track audio editor and recorder with extensive plugin support for effects, generators, analyzers, and more
- Audacity can record live audio through a microphone or mixer, or digitize recordings from other media. With some sound cards, and on any recent version of Windows, Audacity can also capture streaming audio. Device Toolbar manages multiple recording and playback devices. Level meters can monitor volume levels before, during and after recording.
- There is no bonus content for 2.3.2x yet. Previously we had a theme for Audacity 2.1.2 and a Tour Guide for 2.1.3x. Both are now part of mainstream Audacity. Help and Feedback - via Discord. For help on using DarkAudacity, or Audacity, or for feedback, I have added a live Discord server. Click on the link for an invite.
What's new in Audacity 3.0.2:
- Bug fixes and new macro output preference.
Audacity is an open-source, cross-platform audio editor and recorder that aims to process the most popular audio formats, podcasts included. Audacity will not disappoint if you need a piece of software that can record live, convert tapes or cut and mix sounds.
Seamless setup and clean GUI
The installation process runs quite fast and does not pose any kind of problems, while the interface is pleasant and clean. It encompasses a menu bar, several buttons and a pane in which to view the waveform of any uploaded item.
It might take a while to get used to it, especially if you have never worked with a similar kind of product before. Nevertheless, some comprehensive Help contents are provided, which will aid you in getting around Audacity.
Extensions you can use and simple editing options
This utility features support for importing, processing and exporting WAV, FLAC, AIFF, AU and OGG Vorbis files. Bundled with an array of plugins and effects, this software can help you in regards to audio recording/playback, track mixing and spectrum analysis.
Audacity can record multiple channels simultaneously at high sample rates from microphones, USB or Firewire devices. Simple sound editing operations can be performed via cut, copy, paste and delete features, while mixing can be achieved from multiple clips, while the “Draw” function allows altering individual sample points.
Effects to tweak and use, and perform audio analysis
The rich list of effects includes noise processing, equalization, bass, high and low pass filters, as well as amplify, fade in and out, normalize, reverse, echo and phaser filters. Additional effects can be added to the program, as it supports plugins.
Last but not least, it can perform flawless audio analysis through an algorithm based on the Fourier transformation. Frequencies can be visualized through spectrogram views, while the Plot Spectrum allows users to analyze frequencies.
Bottom line
All in all, Audacity impresses through its plethora of features combined with ease of use and accessibility. The processing speed is decent, to say the least and the results are of superior audio quality.
The system performance is not affected at all and we did not come across any freezes or bugs in our tests.If you are interested in bypassing the installation process, you should know that a portable counterpart is available for download, called Portable Audacity.
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Audacity 3.0.2
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- A portable version of this application is available: Portable Audacity
- runs on:
- Windows All
- file size:
- 28.2 MB
- filename:
- audacity-win-3.0.2.exe
- main category:
- Multimedia
- developer:
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Dark Audacity 2.3.2x
FossHub support free open source software, and they provide the bandwidth for the software downloads of Audacity® and DarkAudacity. Currently DarkAudacity is only available for Windows.
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- DarkAudacity 2.3.2x: Installer for Windows - Free download at FossHub
- Source code: All files and their history - Available at GitHub
Added 7th May 2019.
Verifying the Installer
The installer is now signed. For further peace of mind after downloading and before installing:
Check the file with virustotal.com- Check the SHA256 matches by using online file hash calculator at md5file.com
If all is well, the SHA256 of file darkaudacity-win-2.3.2x.exe should be:
4c5b72bb65e717e487749cb4989909cae6925e608784324c65133d45efad17a8 - OR check the SHA256 checksum matches using certutil - which is built into windows.
In file explorer, right click on the name of the directory that contains darkaudacity-win-2.3.2x.exe with the SHIFT key held down. A menu appears to the right. Shortly after the fifth option is the option 'open command window here'. Click that to open a command window, then in the command window type the certutil command:
C:downloads> certutil -hashfile darkaudacity-win-2.3.2x.exe SHA256
If all is well certutil should display:
SHA256 hash of file darkaudacity-win-2.3.2x.exe:
4c5b72bb65e717e487749cb4989909cae6925e608784324c65133d45efad17a8
CertUtil: -hashfile command completed successfully.
License
DarkAudacity is licensed with GPL v2. This gives you freedom to use it and if you like to, to modify the source code too. It ensures that the source code must remain available, including modifications.
Testing
The x,y, and z suffixes indicate experimental releases, so 2.3.2x is an experimental release.
DarkAudacity releases are cutting edge releases. Whilst I am careful about the changes I make, if you want assurances about the degree of testing done, use an official Audacity release that has been through the official Audacity QA process.
Apart from the theming and LED meter changes, you should expect DarkAudacity 2.3.2x to be up to date with changes in Audacity 2.3.2. That's so because both are based on the same code, and 2.3.2x uses most of the updates for Audacity 2.3.2.
Bonus Content
There is no bonus content for 2.3.2x yet. Previously we had a theme for Audacity 2.1.2 and a Tour Guide for 2.1.3x. Both are now part of mainstream Audacity.
Help and Feedback - via Discord
For help on using DarkAudacity, or Audacity, or for feedback, I have added a live Discord server. Click on the link for an invite. Don't worry if there is no one online at the moment. You can leave a message there, and it will get answered later.
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