You can see that the last of the options is “Custom”.
It’s a bit involved to create your own custom Audacity theme, but you can learn more about it here if you want: Create a Custom Audacity Theme. That’s a pretty big change, isn’t it? Now, there’s one more thing you should know about using Audacity from a user interface perspective… HOW TO CHANGE AUDACITY TRACK WAVEFORM COLORS More likely, you’ll just choose from the options shown. Yes, you can change the color of different track waveforms, to help when you’re working with more than one track. That’s done by clicking on the tiny link “Audio Track” with the downward triangle on the top left of the track. In fact, you can also name tracks which can also help you keep track of what’s what. If I have a couple of tracks and use them to change colors, the result is pretty cheery: Here under Audio Track > Wave Color there are four colors, labeled “Instrument 1”, “Instrument 2”, “Instrument 3” and, yes, “Instrument 4”. Not only that, but if I change Themes again, the new colors stick with the tracks, so even in the “Classic” color scheme, it looks pretty sick:Īnd there you have it. #Source audio editor mac updateĪ few ideas on different ways you can use Audacity Theme colors and Waveform colors to update the UI and user experience a little bit. Want more change? Try moving to Garage Band, a free download for MacOS from Apple. More later as we try it out.It’s not quite the same program, but surprisingly similar, with a polished Apple user interface. If I knew more about the requirements of a home studio I would be more helpful in looking at these features. Set mono tracks to left or right channel.Slide the tracks in time to align with each other.I’ll see how she likes it.Īudacity also looks like it has some cool features for amateur musicians: While the interface is different from Goldwave, she should have little problems in doing the transition to Audacity. How long should you create your file? With Audacity you can just start recording. But with Goldwave you have to pre-create your audio file to record to. My friend is converting some of her cassette tapes to CDs and MP3s and I’ve taught her to use Goldwave.
Goldwave doesn’t cost much the first time, but it hasn’t really moved much over the past many years and the major updates cost.Īdobe Audition is very functional, but very expensive. I’ve been using Goldwave for a long time, and Adobe Audition V1 a little, but Audacity looks like it has features and a UI paradigm that I like better. I just descovered Audacity, an open source audio editor for Windows, Mac and Linux.
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