Step 1: Choose the audio recording that you want to edit. This can be the recording that you made in the first activity, or any other audio file you choose. Try to stay away from copyrighted material and use material that you've created yourself or Creative Commons audio. Here are some good sources for Creative Commons audio:
Step 2: Import your audio into your editing tool. For Audacity, follow the steps on this Youtube tutorial. The instructions that are directly applicable to this step start at 0:50.
For Ardour, this video covers two options for how to import audio right at the very beginning of the video:
Step 3: Get comfortable editing your audio. Practice the following:
- Cutting out audio
- Fading in and fading out
Use this tutorial to help. This tutorial is for Audacity, but you can apply the same principles to Ardour.
Step 4: Try out some effects. There's a million audio effects that are possible. Experiment with your software's capabilities and see what you can do. Here are a few you might want to try:
- Change the speed of the audio
- Change the pitch of the audio (make it high like The Chipmunks or really low and grumbly)
- Add echo (otherwise known as reverb)
- Reverse your audio (play it backwards)
This tutorial will show you how to do all of these effects and more.
Again, this tutorial applies to Audacity, but the same principles can be applied to Ardour.
Step 5: Edit and apply effects to your audio to make a finished product. Export your final product and upload to FreshBrain.
Step 6 (optional, for the real world): Join a Creative Commons music site from Step 1 and share your final product with the world.