Nếu bạn muốn tìm một phần mềm chỉnh sửa âm thanh tốt với giá phải chăng trên Mac thì hãy thử dùng Audacity. Đây là phần mềm mã nguồn mở mạnh mẽ, vừa thu âm, vừa cắt ghép và cả áp hiệu ứng nữa
Link: https://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity/
Download Audacity 2.2.2: https://www.fosshub.com/Audacity.html
Giao diện Audacity 2.2.2
1 Menu Bar 2 Transport Toolbar 3 Toolbar 4 Recording Meter Toolbar 5 Playback Meter Toolbar 6 Mixer Toolbar 7 Edit Toolbar 8 Transcription Toolbar 9 Device Toolbar 10 Unpinned Play/Recording Head 11 Timeline 12 Scrub Ruler 13 Track Control Panel 14 Audio Track 15 Label Track 16 Selection Toolbar 17 Status Bar
1. Menu bar
- Audacity: About Audacity, Preferences, System Services, Show and Hide Audacity and other applications, and Quit.
- File: Working with Audacity project files and other audio files.
- Edit; Altering the audio in your project.overview
- Select: Making selections of tracks, or within tracks, in your project.
- View: Change Zoom levels. Show clipping, Undo History, Mixer Board, Toolbars and Karaoke window.
- Transport: Control recording and playback.
- Tracks: Adding, aligning and labeling audio tracks.
- Generate: Creating new audio in your project. Audio generating plug-ins will also appear here.
- Effect: Processing the audio in your project. External Effects plug-ins will also appear in this menu.
- Analyze: Analyzing the audio in your project. External plug-ins that act on audio but do not produce audio output will appear here, as well as tools like Silence Finder and spectrograms.
- Window: Minimize and zoom windows, choose the project window to bring to the front.
- Help: Short and full Help; capture Audacity screenshots; download current Audacity; audio device information; show the Log and generate support data; Audacity version number, license and build information.
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3. Tools bar
Select - F1: Chọn dải âm thanh bằng 2 cách
- Click để chọn điểm đầu và Shift click để chọn điểm cuối
- Click và kéo để quét chọn dải âm thanh.
Envelope - F2: Allows smooth volume changes to be made over the length of a track by means of embedded volume "control points". Click in the track to create a control point, then set the volume of that point by dragging one of its four vertically arranged "handles". When you create other control points at different levels, a smooth curve is interpolated between them. Dragging either the top or bottom handle ensures you can never distort the track by dragging outside its original volume envelope. Dragging an inner handle allows you to amplify a quiet piece of audio beyond the original volume envelope of the track.
Draw Samples - F3: Draw Tool enables you to manually redraw the waveform; it can thus be used to make volume changes to individual samples or to effect repairs to clicks/noise.
Zoom - F4: Left-click zooms in one step at the position of the mouse pointer.
- Click and drag zooms in to the dragged region. The drag draws a dotted region in the waveform which is fitted to the entire track width when you release the drag. No Audacity selection region is created.
- Shift and left-click or right-click zooms out one step at the position of the mouse pointer.
- Shift and drag zooms out based on the dragged region. The drag draws a dotted region in the waveform and when you release the drag, the audio at the left edge of the dotted region is repositioned at the start of the visible waveform. The smaller the dragged region, the farther the audio will be zoomed out. No Audacity selection region is created.
- Middle button zooms in or out to Audacity's default zoom level of about one inch per second.
If you commence a drag to zoom by mistake, you can press Esc before releasing the mouse to cancel the zoom operation. - You can also zoom without using Zoom Tool by using keyboard shortcuts, or the zoom buttons on Edit Toolbar.
Time Shift - F5:
- Selecting this tool lets you synchronize audio in a project by dragging individual or multiple audio tracks, note tracks or audio clips left or right along the Timeline. Also use this tool to drag individual tracks or clips up or down into another track. To use Time Shift Tool, click in the track or clip you want to move, then drag in the required direction.
- Dragged audio cannot paste into other audio, so the area being dragged into must have sufficient space to accommodate the drag.
See this page for more details.
Multi-Tool - F6: Combines all five tools in one. One tool is available at a time, according to the mouse position and modifier key chosen. The shape of the pointer changes to show which tool is active. If you exit Audacity with Multi-Tool Mode selected, it will be also be enabled next time you launch Audacity. More details on Multi-Tool Mode here.
4. Recoding meter
The Meters
Recording meter
Playback meter
Recording Meter Toolbar
Click on the toolbar images below to see these toolbars displayed in context of the default upper tooldock layout.
Recording Meter Toolbar inactive
Audacity always launches with input monitoring off and so the Recording Meter Toolbar displays "Click to Start Monitoring". Click in the recording meter to start monitoring, or when you press the Record button the meter will activate. The Recording Meter Toolbar again displays "Click to Start Monitoring") whenever you stop a recording or start playback.
Recording Meter Toolbar in use
The bars remain green until the signal reaches -12 dB then merge to yellow as the signal approaches -6 dB (which is a good maximum signal level to aim for). If the signal exceeds -6 dB the bars merge from yellow to red. The red color warns that the signal is becoming too "hot" (approaching 0 dB) and that clipping may occur.
Playback Meter Toolbar
Playback Meter Toolbar in use
The Playback Meter will activate when you start playback, or if you start Recording with Software Playthrough turned on in the Transport menu.
The orange color displayed here in the left channel warns that the signal was too "hot" or becoming too "hot" (approaching 0 dB). The red bar at the right of both channels indicates that clipping has occurred at some stage while playing.
Dropdown Menu
Clicking on the microphone or speaker icons in the Meter toolbars will open a dropdown menu with the Meter Options dialog specific to that meter. Another way to access the menu is by right-clicking anywhere in the meter.
The dropdown menu on the Recording Meter additionally lets you enable or disable monitoring of the recording level without the need to record a track.
Monitoring
Start Monitoring/Stop Monitoring (Recording Meter only): Starts/stops visual monitoring of the recording level without recording a track. If you want to also hear the input without recording it, turn on Transport > Transport Options > Software Playthrough. You can also start and stop monitoring by left-clicking anywhere over the Recording Meter.
Options
Selecting Options... from the menu opens the Meter Options dialog which lets you change that meter's style, visual orientation, the scale format and more:
Refresh Rate: Use this to set the refresh rate for this meter. A higher rate makes the meter show more frequent changes. Too high a rate can cause audio breakup on slower machines.
Meter Style: You can choose either the Gradient Meter (default) or the RMS Meter.
Meter Type:dB: Displays the meter with a logarithmic scale where the maximum level before clipping is 0 dB. This is the default view giving more detail for fainter sounds, corresponding more closely to how sound is heard. The minimum value of the scale can be changed in the Interface Preferences.
Linear: Displays the meter with a linear scale where the maximum level before clipping is 1.0.
Orientation:Automatic: Displays the meter in either horizontal or vertical orientation, depending upon the aspect ratio of the meter.
Horizontal: Displays the meter at its default horizontal orientation, with the bars extending from left to right.
Vertical: Displays the meter vertically, with the bars extending from bottom to top.
What the bars and lines mean
Explanation of abbreviations in the image
CP: Current Peak Level. The right-hand edge of the of the colored meter bars. This shows the current peak level of the audio in each channel and relates directly to the dark blue shading in the waveform.
RP: Recent Peak Level. This colored bar indicates the highest peak level attained in the last few seconds in that channel. The actual color shown depends on the Current Peak level coloring at that time. These bars disappear after playback, recording or monitoring is stopped. You can also left-click inside the meter bars while they are active to manually reset the Recent Peak bars for that meter.
MP: Maximum Peak Level. The blue bar indicates the maximum peak level attained in that channel during the current playback or recording session. These bars remain visible after playback, recording or monitoring is stopped, and are reset when a new playback, recording or monitoring session is started. You can also left-click inside the meter bars while they are active to manually reset the Maximum Peak bars for that meter.
Clip: Clipping indicator. The red bar to right of the maximum value of the scale appears as soon as there are four or more consecutive samples in that channel of audio exceeding that maximum. Once they have appeared, the clipping bars remain visible throughout that playback or recording/monitoring session. They are thus not an indication of current clipping, but an absolute indication that clipping occurred somewhere in the track. The clipping bars remain visible after playback, recording or monitoring is stopped, and are reset when a new playback, recording or monitoring session is started. You can also left-click inside the meter bars while they are active to manually reset the Clipping bars for that meter.
To find the exact points where clipping exists in a track, enable View > Show Clipping or run Analyze > Find Clipping....
Meter channels
When playing a mono track, Audacity sends the output to both left and right speakers. Therefore if you leave the pan slider on the Track Panel untouched, both channels of the playback meter will show an identical level. If you pan towards one channel, then the opposite channel will have its level reduced until a complete pan away from it will remove it.
If you set Audacity to record in mono (for example, from a microphone), only the left channel recording meter will be active.
Adjusting and monitoring recording level
Having chosen the correct recording device in Device Toolbar, use the recording volume slider on Mixer Toolbar to adjust the level of audio being recorded. In the image above, note that the blue lines in the recording meter (indicating the maximum peak level attained) are at about -6 dB. This is a sensible level to aim for when recording, because it gives you headroom to make edits affecting volume afterwards.
Note that in some cases the recording volume slider may not be visible, as described on the Mixer Toolbar page. In that case you will need to use your soundcard's or operating system's recording/input volume control to set the recording level in Audacity.
Monitoring
It is good practice to test the correct recording level before recording for real. Monitoring lets you do this without actually having to record and then delete a test track. It also verifies that you are recording the input source you expect. There are two ways to turn monitoring on and off:
Left-click on the recording meter to turn monitoring on. Click again to turn it off.
Click on the downward-pointing arrow beside the microphone symbol to display the meter dropdown menu. Choose "Start Monitoring" or "Stop Monitoring" as appropriate.
You will probably want to hear the monitored audio as well as see it. To do this, enable "Software Playthrough" in the Transport > Transport Options menu.
Adjusting playback level
The playback level displayed in Meter Toolbar reflects the combined amplitude of all the tracks in your project, in other words, the level of the mix as determined by the gain sliders on each track.
The playback volume slider on Mixer Toolbar does not affect the playback meter - the purpose of the meter is solely to indicate what the loudness of the project audio would be were you to export it as an audio file.
Resizing and Undocking
Like all toolbars, either or both Meter Toolbars can be undocked, but unlike the other toolbars, they can also be resized. Resizing gives longer scales for the meters and hence a more accurate view of the volume levels.
If a meter is docked, you can resize it horizontally by clicking and dragging the right edge.
To undock a meter, click the handle on the left edge and drag. You can drag outside the Audacity project window, too.
To resize when undocked, click on the resize handle that appears at the bottom right of the toolbar and drag horizontally or vertically. The meters display in vertical orientation when their toolbar height exceeds their width.
Choice of meter style
Audacity offers two choices of style for metering. You can switch between the two meter styles in the Meter Options dialog which is accessed by the Meter dropdown menu. For both styles, L shows the left channel and R the right channel.
Gradient Meter
This is the default meter style for Audacity. Both the Playback Meter (loudspeaker icon) and Recording Meter (microphone icon) display in the same colors. The bars remain green until the signal reaches -12 dB then merge to yellow as the signal approaches -6 dB (which is a good maximum signal level to aim for). If the signal exceeds -6 dB the bars merge from yellow to red. The red color warns that the signal is becoming too "hot" (approaching 0 dB) and that clipping may occur.
Full-height Meter
You may wish to use full-height meters (as were used in earlier versions of Audacity). If so, you can undock the meter by dragging the serrated edge on the left, then drag the meter downwards (at bottom right) until it's the full height. That will make the numbers appear under the meter bars.
If you have space in the upper dock area you can then drag the standard height meter back into the upper dock.
RMS Meters
The Recording Meter has red meter bars and a red Recent Peak indicator and the Playback Meter has green meter bars and a green Recent Peak indicator. This style displays the current RMS level of the signal in a lighter shade of red or green respectively, but the color of the meter bars does not change when when the signal approaches -6 dB or 0 dB.
The right-hand edge of the lighter part of the bar shows the current RMS level and the right-hand edge of the darker bar shows the Current Peak level. The red or green line on the right shows the Recent Peak level and the blue lines on th right show the Maximum Peak level.
This was the previous style of meter used in Audacity. Users of earlier versions of Audacity or those recording to specifications required for audiobooks may prefer to use the Meter dropdown menu to open Meter Options and change to this style of meter.
