Comment: RTFM

[Steve H]

How many times have you searched and searched in vain for an app that
will perform a very specific task,and then later found that you
already had such an app - only you never realised it could do what you
wanted?

In the course of transcribing various tunes for various bands I've
downloaded and used an assorted collection of apps, along with another
set of apps for general music transferal and archiving.
But what I spent a couple of hours looking for the other day was an
app that could infinitely repeat a selected sample, and app that could
pitch shift, another that could change tempo without shifting
pitch...and so on..

And then I chanced across a link to the Audacity site.
I've been using this app for ages now as a means of converting my
vinyl and tapes to wav files - and as that's really all I downloaded
it for I never really bothered to explore its potential.

And what do I find?
It does everything I ever wanted - and a whole lot more if I choose to
download any number of plugins.

It took me hours to search for apps that didn't exist, wading through
adverts and shareware, and barely five minutes to explore some of the
more advanced capabilities of this excellent freeware application.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Regards,

 

[old jon]

How many times have you searched and searched in vain for an app that
will perform a very specific task,and then later found that you
already had such an app - only you never realised it could do what you
wanted?

In the course of transcribing various tunes for various bands I've
downloaded and used an assorted collection of apps, along with another
set of apps for general music transferal and archiving.
But what I spent a couple of hours looking for the other day was an
app that could infinitely repeat a selected sample, and app that could
pitch shift, another that could change tempo without shifting
pitch...and so on..

And then I chanced across a link to the Audacity site.
I've been using this app for ages now as a means of converting my
vinyl and tapes to wav files - and as that's really all I downloaded
it for I never really bothered to explore its potential.

And what do I find?
It does everything I ever wanted - and a whole lot more if I choose to
download any number of plugins.

It took me hours to search for apps that didn't exist, wading through
adverts and shareware, and barely five minutes to explore some of the
more advanced capabilities of this excellent freeware application.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

There you are then. You RTFM. It proves to be true. <g>.
bw..OJ

 

[Lew/+Silat]

How many times have you searched and searched in vain for an app that
will perform a very specific task,and then later found that you
already had such an app - only you never realised it could do what you
wanted?

In the course of transcribing various tunes for various bands I've
downloaded and used an assorted collection of apps, along with another
set of apps for general music transferal and archiving.
But what I spent a couple of hours looking for the other day was an
app that could infinitely repeat a selected sample, and app that could
pitch shift, another that could change tempo without shifting
pitch...and so on..

And then I chanced across a link to the Audacity site.
I've been using this app for ages now as a means of converting my
vinyl and tapes to wav files - and as that's really all I downloaded
it for I never really bothered to explore its potential.

And what do I find?
It does everything I ever wanted - and a whole lot more if I choose to
download any number of plugins.

It took me hours to search for apps that didn't exist, wading through
adverts and shareware, and barely five minutes to explore some of the
more advanced capabilities of this excellent freeware application.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Regards,

Steve would you mind telling me what plugins you found useful with Audacity?

 

[Steve H]

Steve would you mind telling me what plugins you found useful with Audacity?

The ones that come with it, so far!
I'm still wading through the manual at the moment - but I followed up
a few links to various plugin sites and some of them look like they
might come in handy at a later date. There's quite a few to get
through!

http://dmoz.org/Computers/Multimedia/Music_and_Audio/Software/Plug-ins/
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/nyquistplugins

....among others...

Most of them look to be of more use to creative users rather than
transcribers, but there's a good few that might help with cleaning up
poor recordings.

Regards,