[Cbsupport] Re: Is 'free' Audacity software any good?

[Kylie Davies]

Hi Cara,

Nice to hear from you. :) 

Audacity is open source software and it works really well for a lot of
things. Highly recommended. We use audacity on PIII 450Mhz based systems
and it runs beautifully. 

I have a bit of experience with it, as do many other Computerbank folk.
There are a lot of online tutorials and help for the program. See
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/tutorials for starters. Also see
our links collection from
http://doc.vic.computerbank.org.au/authorsplaypen/linux_music/ 

What do you plan to use audacity for? What speed is your computer? How
much RAM/memory does it have? Hard drive space? If your computer is
relatively new you should not have any problems using audacity. 

One thing is audacity uses a lot of hard drive space when it is in the
process of making tracks. I ran out of space one time (I only had 500mb
left). 

We have some live CD versions of Linux that have audacity on them. If
you pop into Computerbank we can give you a copy. It would be great to
see you again. Hope your doing well. :) 

Cheers,

Kylie 





On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 00:16 +0000, Cara Rosehope wrote:
> Hi Kylie, Hi Computer Bank,
> 
> I'm a grateful former recipient of a CB computer who now owns a new PC. 
> There is a Sound Editing Software system, Audacity: 
> <audacity.source.forge.net> that I found just by Googling. It is open 
> source, free to download, and seems to have all the features I need. It is 
> Linux, Mac and Windows compatible. Does anybody have any experience of it? 
> How can I tell if my hardware is up to it, and the software REALLY free? It 
> seems too good to be true.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> CARA ROSEHOPE
> 
> PS - Hope you're good, Kylie.
> 
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