I might be doing something wrong, but I could not get Audacity to work properly for me. It seems to have the proper options for working with music, but when I pulled in an MP3 file, almost all of the useful menu items were grayed out.
One of the things that my kids wanted to do was to speed up some songs and mash them together. I can see how to mash them together, but the option to change tempo wasn’t available.
Again, maybe I’m doing something wrong. So far, this will not work as a GarageBand for Windows.
February 22, 2008 at 5:41 pm |
Audacity does have the option to change pitch, tempo, etc. It is actually pretty robust, but by the same token, the interface is a little clumsy…which could be why you were having trouble finding the tools you were looking for. I have used Audacity for almost 2 years…for a free program, it’s been worth the effort. That said, I am looking for a little “meatier” GarageBand-esque replacement to try out.
April 13, 2008 at 7:48 am |
Actually, those options are grayed out because to use them you must have a portion of the track selected; this means that these effects may be applied to selected parts of the track, which to me is more flexible than selecting a whole track to apply the effects on.
April 26, 2008 at 5:45 am |
The new BETA works fine with tempo
… you’ll have to mark a part of the song