PYLE Audio PLTTB3U User Manual

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Silence - inserts silence

Tone... - you can create a Sine

wave, Square wave, or Sawtooth

wave.

White Noise - inserts random audio

samples, which sounds like pure

static.

Any items which appear after these

three built-ins are VST, Ladspa, or

Nyquist plug-ins. It is possible for a

poorly written plug-in to crash

Audacity, so always save your work

before using a plug-in. Note that

any effect that doesn't take any

audio as input will automatically be

placed in the Generate menu.

Effect Menu

The items in this menu only work

when you have audio selected.

Audacity does not have any real-

time effects; you must select the

audio, apply the effect, and then

listen to the results.

Most effects have a Preview button.

Clicking on this button plays up to

three seconds of audio, allowing

you to hear what it will sound like

after the effect is applied. This is

useful for fine-tuning the effect

parameters.

Repeat Last Effect - selecting this

command is a shortcut to applying

the most recent effect with the

same settings. This is a convenient

way to quickly apply the same effect

to many different parts of a file.

Amplify - changes the volume of

the selected audio. If you click the

"Allow clipping" checkbox, it will let

you amplify so much that the audio

ends up beyond the range of the

waveform, and is clipped (distorted).

The default value when you open

the effect is to amplifiy so that the

loudest part of the selection is as

loud as possible without distortion.

Bass Boost - enhances the bass

frequencies in the audio.

Change Pitch - changes the

pitch/frequency of the selected

audio without changing the tempo.

When you open the dialog, the

starting frequency is set to

Audacity's best guess as to the

frequency of the selection. This

works well for recordings of singing

or musical instruments without

background noise. You can specify

the pitch change in one of four

different ways: musical note,

semitones, frequency, or percent

change.

Change Speed - changes the

speed of the audio by resampling.

Making the speed higher will also

increase the pitch, and vice versa.

This will change the length of the

selection.

Change Tempo - changes the

tempo (speed) of the audio without

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