Effect Menu: Audacity is digital audio editing software that one can use to edit recordings. It is open-source, cross-platform software available at no cost on Windows and other OS. It is one of the most powerful audio editors out there.
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Effect menu in audacity
You can use built-in effects on or use plugin effects. In order to use the desired effects, you can select an element of the entire part of the audio clip. You can download some free plugins and paid ones from the web.
Built-in effects
Audacity built-in effects are available at the top of the software within the effects menu dropdown. Some effects are present below.
Amplify
To amplify a sound means to extend or decrease its inbuilt volume. This effect in audacity automatically detects the utmost volume that you simply can reach without clipping.
Auto duck
It reduces or ducks the track when the quantity of audio volume reaches a particular level.
Bass and treble
It independently decreases or increases the frequencies of the audio file.
Change pitch
It changes the pitch at which the track plays.
Change speed
It changes the speed at which the track plays.
Fade-In
To apply the fade-in effect, select the portion of the audio file on which you need to apply the effect. Now, go to the effect menu and select the option of fade-in.
Fade-out
To apply to fade-out effect, select the portion of audio the le on which you need to apply the effect. Then go to the effect menu and select fade out.
Flips
This feature simply flips the audio the other way up.
Noise reduction
It removes the background of fans, dogs barking, etc.
Truncate silence
It automatically finds and removes the silence zones in an audio clip.
Plugins available in Audacity
There are over 90 open source plugins available on the audacity website. Let us see the 2 major plugins that Audacity offers.
LADSPA Tool
LADSPA Stands for Linux audio developer’s simple plug-in API. These effects support the real-time preview. The LADSPA Plugin takes mono or stereo audio on input and gives mono or stereo audio on output.
It is indeed super simple to use, and also very popular. Still, there are many downsides to it such as it contains no instruments, no custom GUIs, and no MIDI.
LADSPA plugins have a generic user interface but it is not that fancy. If you have come from VST then your expectation about Custom GUIs might be lowered.
LV2
It was first introduced in 2008 and it stands for LADSPA Version 2. The plugin can be considered as a perfect replacement for SSI and LADSPA. It also supports unlimited input and output ports.
How to add a plugin in audacity?
- To add a plugin, visit the official wiki page of audacity
- Then search the plugin which you want to include.
- Right-click on the plugin and hit Save As
- Go to the Audacity effect menu and click add/remove plugin. Here you can upload the particular plugin.
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