What is Audicity?

Audicity is a free open sourced multi platform audio editing & recording software package. Audiicity works on Windows, Mac and Linux PC's.

Audacity can record live audio through a microphone or mixer, or digitize recordings from other media. With some sound cards, and on any recent version of Windows, Audacity can also capture streaming audio.

• Device Toolbar manages multiple recording and playback devices.

• Level meters can monitor volume levels before, during and after recording. Clipping can be displayed in the waveform or in a label track.

• Record from microphone, line input, USB/Firewire devices and others.

• Record computer playback on Windows Vista and later by choosing “Windows WASAPI” host in Device Toolbar then a “loopback” input.

• Timer Record and Sound Activated Recording features.

• Dub over existing tracks to create multi-track recordings.

• Record at very low latencies on supported devices on Linux by using Audacity with JACK.

• Record at sample rates up to 192,000 Hz (subject to appropriate hardware and host selection). Up to 384,000 Hz is supported for appropriate high-resolution devices on Windows (using WASAPI), Mac OS X, and Linux.

• Record at 24-bit depth on Windows (using Windows WASAPI or Windows DirectSound host), Mac OS X or Linux (using ALSA or JACK host).

• Record multiple channels at once (subject to appropriate hardware).