Is it easy to learn? And if it is, how do you learn how to use it?

It's a sound editing program. Most of the functionality is pretty easy to use.

You can't, however, (really) make sound effects with it or anything like that, if that's what you want it for.

O ok. Well then where do you recommend what website i use for sounds?

your full of ♥♥♥♥ grif, I've used audacity to make sound effects.

You need 1) Audacity, and 2) VSTi Plugins

Thats it.

Generate tone,
Generate a different tone
add effects to the tones,
add LOTS of effects to the tones.

Dont forget you can use a microphone. you just need to know what your doing.

Don't listen to grif, He doesn't know ♥♥♥♥ about sound, wearas I have made music and sound effects for the last 4 years.

Ok, so is it easyish to learn how to make your own sounds?

Its actually fairly simple,

you record a sound with a mic, just hit record and thats all you need. To edit it, all you do is select part of the wave, go up to effect, and select an effect that Audacity has loaded, it opens up a window with options, dependant on the effect, you will need to know what the effects do and how, or your just gonna be stumbling around poking at things for hours, and not get any results... you basically keep fiddling with it till it does what you want it to.

So if you want it to have 8 effects on it, you add them 1 at a time, and if it didn't do what you wanted, Undo them, and do them again in a different order, or with different options, because order does matter. For example, "wah" and "Distortion"/"Overdrive", These are music effects and you'll need to find a plugin for them but I have a pile of them, I'm willing to share, they where free (Loads of freeware plugins out there if you can find them), If you use wah, it adds that wahwahwahwah effect to it, its called a formant, its kind of complicated, and the exact scientific explenations are sort of beyond me, I just go by ear, and how it looks (as odd as that sounds). If you then add distort, it will distort that wah noise as well. Its basic logic, and has to be done step by step, and its not like photoshop layers where you can just go "oops" and insert a new layer In between, you have to actually go back, add the forgotten bit, and then re-do everything after.

The only thing thats really hard to 'learn' is getting to the point of "I want to have THIS sound" and then figuring out, how to get it, and thats not specific to audacity, thats true of making anything. If you want some quick tips, here are a few.


because you can cut and paste smaller clips, and layer them, you can sync multiple unrelated sounds together, and through simply zooming in to see miliseconds, and cutting those small of bits and adding effects to miliseconds, you can splice ANY sounds together. you could take a creaky door and the loudest part of it is actually an explosion or a dog bark, kind of pointless to do that, but if you get an idea it can be done with ease, and don't forget, you can use that to keep editing and adding effects to make it into something completely different. You can also do this to make a beat-slicer, granted thats more for music, you can use it to chop up words, and other sounds, so that the cut off. you can also do this to say, make auto-fire.

Another thing to do, which is typically done with a guitar or base, is overdrive. All overdrive is, is audio distortion, or more specifically clipping. Computers and speakers have a maximum decible level. when a sound is supposed to go over it, Everything beyond that level, is silenced, Like if you open an image editor and move the picture on it so that its half off the canvas and save, even if you move it back, that parts gone (unless its a layer or another image that loads at which point its saved, but that doesn't do that with audio). So if you crank something up to 40 Db, and it cuts off everything past 20, and then you drop it down 10, the sound will only be 10 Db, but it will sound like it was 30 Db, and it will have reduced quality. you can toy with that all you want, its called either sharp clipping or hard clipping, I forget which. Theres also soft clipping, which is when it doesn't abruptly mute, but rather fades out. There also the differences between digital and analog clipping, but everything I do is digital and I can't tell the difference.

most of what you'll do though is with effects, garaunteed.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about/features
you'll note that under plugins it lists, VST, which is a type of plugin, but it requires a patch, which is available Here. That doesn't actually do much except let you add VST plugins, This is the only kind of plugin I ever use because I do music with FL Studio, and it also uses VST/VSTi, and there are ALOT of free ones.

Don't forget you also have the ability to generate tones (Square, Sine, Saw, Triangle, at any frequency and such you like) , and there are also mutli channel effects that blend sounds together, like a vocoder.

If you have any other questions about audio editing feel free to PM me, and if there's anything I can't answer, I'll try to point you somewhere that can help.

First of all, it is a bass, not a base.

Secondly, there is a lot of help out there on the internet. its pretty handy for everything you should need in relation to CC, especially considering you can grab all the vanilla sounds with it and make something handy very easily. Just grab it (and maybe get the effects pack aswell) and toy about. I find the easiest way to learn something to do with computers is to do it, and audacity is/was no different.
Apparently, direct your queries mile's way though. Because he's the one who sits on google all day and has nothing better to do, he should be able to sort of help you (as long as you can stand to sift through walls of text). What are you actually planning on using it for? CC effects? cause it should work fine for that.

ahahahah winner.

Bass or base depends on where it was. Please quote where your refering to,
A sound can be bass, or it can be the base of something. you left no context, please fix this.

2ndly, Yes, just mess with it, but don't just mess with it without knowledge, look up what it does first so you know what the result is as well. Its way hard to tell with sound sometimes, like with Normalize or Compressors, I can't tell what there supposed to do by ear, I only just found out what 1 use of a compressor is, and now that I know, I'm willing to use it and fiddle.

3rd, I don't sit on google all day, I actually DO do a hefty amount of sound editing.

http://www.furaffinity.net/user/milest3hr4t/ Check my gallery, its flooded with music, and thats only about 20% of what all I've made. If you want to know how Any sound I've made in any of those tracks was made, I will tell you. also I will warn you, some of it is pretty bad, Stay away from the one that's buddy holly, its bad.

but anyway,

In short, Read what an effect is supposed to do, and start fiddling so that you know what that actually sounds like, Try it on multiple different sounds, you can get some interesting results.

It should be bass here.
However, to reiterate, what are you actually planning on using it for?

Wow How did I mess that up?!

Also presumably sound effects.

If I never need sounds I am so going to contact you