Audacity Lesson 3 - Cut, Copy, & Paste Sound

Audacity is a simple, but powerful, free audio recording and editing program for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

You can download it for free, here:

[michelaser]

This is a professional tutorial, no background music, no adds, it is clear and brief.

[imtiaq]

God bless youtube tutorials i wouldnt know how to do anything without em

[unstoppablezone]

After watching dozens of Audacity tutorials, this is by far the best. Thank you for doing this.

[kshappiness]

Finally someone who breaks down just copy and paste a song! Thank you.

[NeilRoy]

When you cut the audio, you didn't need to copy it a second time to paste it back at the start. When you wish to paste the last copied/cut sample, you can just paste it as many times as you wish as it remains in the clipboard until you replace it with something else. The clipboard is also a Windows feature, which means you can copy a sample into the clipboard, and then paste it into another program.

I highly recommend getting used to the keys as they are default keys for copying (CTRL+C), pasting (CTRL+V), cutting (CTRL+X) in most Windows programs. I use them A LOT, when editing text like this you can use them. You can use those keys to copy text from another file and paste it in here for example, so it's very useful to know the keys as where they are on the menu isn't always apparent and it takes more time to use the menus than just using the keys.

[hasyagyan]

i learnt inkscape by your tutorial. now i am learning audacity. the way of your teaching is best. waiting for blender tutorials.

[NewfieBearFun]

THANK This has to be the simplest anyone has put this yet! I’ve been looking all day for how to make a small correction and this has answered my question perfectly and I’ve been able to follow along! Some vids go way to fast, yours is perfect 👌🙂

[PegsPhotography]

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I just want to say thank you for all those softwares and programs you had showed us in your previous videos, to be honest I wouldnt have been where I am now without your help. Thank you

[mrt]

These videos give well thought-out assistance. One thing I didn't see though was advice on dealing with the clicks which sometimes mar joins between copied sections. Audacity can often help here too.

[hemantrohilla]

i liked your commitment of making vids in 8 in morning
much appreciated🙏

[danimaldann]

kudos TJ, for posting an articulate, concise and illustrative video on these useful audacity functions 👌

[adielkilonzi]

Dude is there a thing you haven't done... You have been the one person who has single built my channel in terms of effects. This is my personal Youtube account though... not my channels account. But I appreciate.

[Dina]

This video is very helpful, but if I know I need five new tracks to begin with, is there a way to open multiple New tracks at the same time? Or do I have to keep going to Tracks, add new, then select Mono five times?

[troypham]

Thank you so much TJFREE for the tutorial I just saw your video after searching cut copy paste in audacity. You saved me alot of time and you taught people how to edit in audacity. Thank you…

[stevelco]

Thanks! I'm enjoying your tutorial series on Audacity.

[jmaku]

Most simple and easy to understand. Thank you.

[ghostavmindcod]

you made a completely new song with this one

[kobejanvicente]

Finally! A tutorial that doesn't use Mac OS.

[kanegrey]

i need help when i copy paste my chorus it cuts part of the beat audio how do i prevent this????

[Verbalaesthet]

This is a good tutorial for early beginners. What I'm trying to do is replace a part of the audio track with a part of a different audio track. For example lets say I wanted to censor bad words and every time someone says a bad word I would want a beep sound. And I have a 20 seconds beep sound. I want to mark, so highlight, the parts to be replaced and then put in the beep sound that I copied into the C&P memory. If I paste over the marked part it will also shorten or expand the full length of the audio track if the marked part differs in length from the pasted part. But I dont want that to happen. So my question is:

How can I replace ONLY the marked part without changing the length? Is there any other way than copying a part of the exact same length (which is really hard to do).