This application can be integrated across disciplines and is relatively easy to use. This software can: record live audio, cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together, and edit various audio files (Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF to name a few).

See the Recording page for more details.Audacity is an audio recording and editing software application that is open source, so anyone can download it for free with no restrictions of use.

When recording stops, a message box alerts the user and a label track, called 'Dropouts', is added showing the lost parts, labeled with consecutive numbers.

Detect dropouts: When this setting is ' on' (default setting) Audacity will detect dropouts (brief gaps in the recording) and will insert zeroes into the recording to keep the other good parts synchronized.

Then clicking on this modified Record button (or using the shortcut Shift + R) will cause Audacity to record at the end of the currently selected, or only, track. If you hold the Shift button down, the Record button in Transport Toolbar will temporarily change to.

Record on a new track: Setting this to be ' on' will cause Audacity to always record on a new track when you press the Record button on Transport Toolbar (or use the shortcut R).

When recording from a microphone, listen in headphones so that the microphone hears only what you are actually recording.

For some examples of setting up equipment to record without playthrough latency, see this Tutorial about Recording overdubs.

If you enable monitoring with software to play other tracks, you can listen to the input without recording it.

Audacity recording manual