Move Track Up
–
exchange places with the
track above this one.
Move Track Down
–
exchange places with
the track below this one.
Waveform(dB)
–
similar to Wave form ,but
on a logarithmic scale, measured in decibels
(dB).
Spectrum
–
display the track as a
spectrogram, showing the amount of energy in
different frequency bands.
Pitch (EAC)
–
highlights the contour of the
fundamental frequency (musical pitch) of the
audio, using the Enhanced Autocorrelation
(EAC) algorithm.
Mono
–
makes this track a mono track,
meaning it is played out of just one speaker, or
played out of the left and right speakers
equally.
Left Channel
–
makes this track come out of
only the left speaker.
Right Channel –
makes this track come out
of only the right speaker.
Make Stereo Track
–
if there is another
track below this one, joins them to make a
single stereo track, with the top track
representing the left speaker, and the bottom
track representing the right speaker.
When tracks are joined into a stereo pair, all
edits automatically apply to both the left and
right channel.
Split Stereo Track
–
if the selected track is a
stereo track (a pair of left and right tracks joined
together as a single track), this operation splits
them into two separate tracks that you can
modify and edit independently.
Set Sample Format
–
this determines the
quality of the audio data and the amount of
space it takes up. 16-bit is the quality used by
audio CD’s and is the minimum quality that
Audacity uses internally converted when you
open them). 24-bit is used in higher-end audio
hardware. 32-bit
float
unless you have a slow
computer or
are running out of disk space.
Set Rate
–
sets the number of samples per
second of the track, 44100Hz is used by audio
CDs.
Tracks can have different sample rates in
Audacity; they are automatically re-sampled to
the project sample rate (in the lower-left corner
of the window).
[
MENU]
File Menu
New
–
creates a new empty window
Open
…-
opens an audio file or an Audacity
project in a new window (unless the current
window is empty).
To add audio files to an existing project window,
use one of the Import commands in the Project
menu.
