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Timer Record and Sound Activated Recording features.Record computer playback on Windows Vista and later by choosing “Windows WASAPI” host in Device Toolbar then a “loopback” input.Record from microphone, line input, USB/Firewire devices and others.Clipping can be displayed in the waveform or in a label track.

Level meters can monitor volume levels before, during and after recording.

Device Toolbar manages multiple recording and playback devices.

With some sound cards, and on any recent version of Windows, Audacity can also capture streaming audio. You can now experiment using the Envelope Tool and playing back the audio so you can hear how the tracks blend together.Audacity can record live audio through a microphone or mixer, or digitize recordings from other media. Using the Envelope Tool is the secret to mixing two or more tracks together into one sound piece. If you now play back the track you will hear the volume levels follow the lines you have made. You will notice the area to the left gets smaller (the volume is lowered), and the area to the right gets bigger until it reaches the second set of squares.

Now point your mouse cursor on the top white square on the left side, and while your mouse finger is still down, drag the square downwards : To show you how this can change the volume of just one part of the audio click on the blue line close to where you first clicked : Now you can 'grab' the blue line at the point where these squares appear.

To do this click on the blue line, you will see small white squares appear where you clicked : You can now lower the volume on chosen sections of the track by changing the shape of this blue line. The thin blue line actually represents the volume of the track. This means the Envelope Tool is activated. You can see the blue line around the track in the above image. Before pressing the Envelope Tool a track looks like this : The second is that the tracks are surrounded by a blue line. When you click on it there are two parts of the Audacity interface that change, the first is that the Envelope Tool button looks like it has been pressed : The Envelope Tool has an icon in the Audacity Tool Bar, it looks like this :

So my Audacity initially looks like this : We will use two stereo music files to mix together using the Envleope Tool. You will first have to have Audacity open with more than one track. It allows you to alter the volume of the sounds in Audacity which is especially important when you are combining ('mixing') several tracks together. The envelope tool is probably the most important tool for Audacity users.