I am in love with Audacity! Why? Well, in this screencast I created, I show some of the basic features of this powerful audio recorder that gives you a lot of control over almost any aspect of the audio recording process. And it's free and open-source! If you're a librarian or student that needs to make a recording for a podcast or a project, this just might be the tool for you. If you need to record yourself with your smartphone, you can export the audio into Audacity and do all sorts of things to it like amplify, speed up, slow down, raise an octave, remove noise, or other edits to tweak your sound with the use of filters and controls. This will work with a USB mic or USB audio interface (I use the Scarlett 2i4) on a Mac, PC, or Linux computer. If you use another audio recording software like Garageband, Reaper, Logic, Ableton, or other tool, Audacity complements these by being able to edit individual tracks from these with no loss of quality. I can't encourage folks enough to give this app a try (desktop only) and see what they can do with this fab audio recorder. Visit http://www.audacityteam.org/ and also http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about/features to download and see features. Looks like the updated version (2.2.0) even has support for MIDI! Great!
