Colin, thanks a lot. that's all I needed to get going. terrific help.

Bob K8MXC

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 3:56 PM
Subject: Re: sound editors


> to start a recording, use the letter R.
> to stop a recording, use the spacebar.
> TO start and stop play back use the space bar.
> Use control F6 to toggle between the three different windows.  To record,
> you want to be in "track view".
> If you open audacity, it will start a new track as soon as you press the
> letter R, you don't need to form a new track as in other editers.
> You set your audio quality preference in the preferences window.
>
> To edit a track or specific tracks in the track view window, use the enter
> key to select or deselect the track.
> Use the arrow keys to select the track.
> Control G allows you to adjust level or gain for a track.  Control P 
> allows
> you to adjust the pan or left/right fields on a track.
> use the left and right arrows to fast forward or rewind within a track by 
> 1
> second interval, and shift left or right to jump by 3 or 5 seconds 
> depending
> on how you have it set in the preferences.
> To adjust preferences, hit Control P.
> if you want to multi-track, that is, play a track and record another one
> over it at the same time, set the preferences under I/O settings to play 
> the
> previously recorded track while recording, and you may have to fool around
> with your negative buffer settings to get things to track at the same 
> time.
> If you record something and want it to disappear so you can record 
> something
> else, use Shift C to delete the current recording.
> The thing with multi-track recorders is that once you have recorded
> something, the program will just add another track when you go to record
> again instead of over writing the first recording as happens in single 
> track
> recorders.
>
> I think audacity also has threshhold level recording, that is, it will 
> start
> a recording when the soundcard receives a preset level of audio and will
> pause the recording when it no longer hears that level of signal...this is
> great for recording scanners or other receivers that are squelched because
> it will eliminate empty spaces on the recording.
> You can export to MP3 or OGG format as well from audacity using the 
> "export
> audio" icon in the file menus.  TO import audio use shift I and make your
> selection from the tree view.
> use the left and right brackets to select portions of the audio track that
> you want to edit or save.  left bracket selects the beginning and right
> bracket is the end marker.  this will select the portion of audio between
> the two markers, and if you want to get rid of the audio outside these
> markers, use the trim function or control T.   to reselect the whole thing
> again just press control A.
>
> if you need further help with audacity, feel free to email me or skype me 
> at
> Greatcanadian.
> email me with a time you want to get on skype if you need to.
> i'll post the link for the tutorial which outlines all the hotkeys for
> audacity as well.
>
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX


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