This morning I had the good fortune to attend the Kick-off for Georges Music's 18th Annual Springing The Blues Festival held in Jacksonville Beach, Florida each year on the first week-end in April.

As an Open Source Advocate and musician/audio engineer, I will be actively promoting one of my favorite Open Source projects, Audacity, while at this years Festival.

Audacity is Free/Libre Open Source Software for recording anding and editing audio.  It is cross-platform (ie,  available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operatng systems).

With Audacity it is possible to record live audio from  microphones or line inputs, convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs, edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files, cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together and change the speed or pitch of a recording.
puts, convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs, edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files.cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together, change the speed or pitch of a recording, and more.  Built-in effects allow altering  frequencies with Equalization, FFT Filter, and Bass Boost, adjusting volumes with Compressor, Amplify, and Normalize effect, plus experimenting with Echo, Phaser, Wahwah and Reverse.

Audacity is available for free download at sourceforge.net.  For those who are not able to download, I will send a free CD containing xxx whlie my supplies last.  A small PayPal donation to cover postage and handling would be appreciated but is not necessary.

Effects feature allows you to change the pitch without altering the tempo, or vice-versa, remove static, hiss, hum, or other constant background noises, alter frequencies with Equalization, FFT Filter, and Bass Boost effects, adjust volumes with Compressor, Amplify, and Normalize effects and experiment with Echo, Phaser, Wahwah, and Reverse built-in effects.

Audacity is available for free download at sourceforge.net.  For those who are not able to download, I will send a free CD (Windows version only) containing Audacity while my supplies last.  A small PayPal donation to cover postage and handling would be appreciated but is not necessary.  Click Here!