Damien, Christina, Sameer and anyone else who is interested in a 15
minute intro to Audacity. I have cobbled together this recording
<https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/v56cn4>. It is about a 22mb download.
I have inadvertently left out a couple of things that could have been
included, such as x (version 2.1.3) and shift-a (previous versions) to
stop playing and put the cursor at that position. Undoubtedly the other
resources already mentioned will be far more comprehensive (and more
polished). My hope is, though, that my effort may help people who are
having trouble getting started.
I have not included anything on multi-track recording. If people are
positive about this attempt, I would be happy to do that, along with
useful facilities such as labels.
Andrew
On 21/07/2017 8:02 AM, Andrew Downie wrote:
Hi Damien
I can’t do it right now, but perhaps later today (Sydney time) I will try putting together a quick audio demo of navigating and editing in Audacity. It is certainly a different beast to Goldwave. Once you get your head around how to beat it into submission though, it is a very obedient beast.
Andrew
*From:*audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Damien Sykes-Lindley
*Sent:* Friday, 21 July 2017 12:47 AM
*To:* audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Subject:* [audacity4blind] Audacity v GoldWave
Hi there,
As you all know, I’ve been following and, where possible, contributing to some of the threads of this list for a good while now. Practically, I’ve read the majority of the Audacity manual and tried some basic effects processing. However I’m still struggling with Audacity’s concept of editing (I.E. making selections). I see references in the manual to the playback cursor and editing cursor but I haven’t yet found out how to work these. I may be missing something but the manual, to me, seems a little erroneous and contradictory – the editing section states that the way to select regions with the keyboard is through the toolbar, but under the accessibility section it states that toolbars aren’t accessible with screen readers. Yet seems to me that it is possible – otherwise this list probably wouldn’t even exist. Having said that, as far as I am aware I have never used a toolbar before, so I was of the impression that they would never be accessible. Or maybe I’ve used one and just not known it for what it is. That’s the problem with screen readers.
Also, I feel I would benefit from either some audio demonstrations or transition guides – Previously my knowledge has been confined to toys like Sound Recorder and tape decks like GoldWave (whose effects processing is, in my opinion, at best suspect, and rather limited), so I’m trying to learn as many as possible so that I have the best possible variety of effects and editing techniques at my disposal.
Having looked at the documentation it seems that Audacity is a multitrack rather than a single track editor. Though the concept is quite straight forward (you can edit multiple tracks in one session or in one project), the way this is done is entirely alien to me. I feel like I’m transition from tape machine to a mixer. I might go further and say studio, but no. I think I’ll leave that honour to Reaper. That one went way over my head!
In any case. If any of you have used GoldWave and can give me some kind of sense of how Audacity is different, both in terms of usage and concepts, that’d be very helpful.
Also, does anyone know what the status of the NVDA addon is? Even if Audacity is accessible out of the box (just as GoldWave is), NVDA has an addon for GoldWave that provides keys for announcing information (selected channels, markers, lengths, peaks etc). A similar addon for Audacity would be very useful, in my opinion.
Cheers.
