Screenshots: Most screenshots in this Manual are of Audacity running under its default settings on the Microsoft Windows 10® operating system. Copyright: Pages in this Manual are …

Theme: Audacity now comes supplied with four pre-configured, user-selectable themes: Light, Dark, Classic and High Contrast. This enables you to choose the look and feel you prefer for …

You can change the layout of Audacity from that shown on the front page by moving, resizing, hiding and showing the various toolbars. See the Customizing Toolbar Layout page for details.

For a detailed reference guide to all the Audacity menus and controls, click here or Help > Manual in the Audacity application. If you need to download the current Manual, click here.

Scripting drives Audacity from outside the Audacity user interface. If you use mod-script-pipe to enable scripting, this weakens computer security, as malicious software that already has a …

The Custom theme to use can be chosen at Edit > Preferences > Interface. By default the custom theme looks the same as the default Light theme - but, if you have the right programming skills …

Any users who had the CleanSpeech customized interface enabled in 1.3.13 or earlier 1.3 versions of Audacity will find that Transport Toolbar has an empty space which previously …

Windows WASAPI: This host is the most recent Windows interface between applications (such as Audacity) and the audio interface driver. WASAPI was first officially released in 2007.

Now that you know you are getting sound into the computer and you have made your Audacity settings, it is time to set up your recording device. There are many other settings that can be …

To change the language Audacity runs in, use the Interface Preferences, or exit Audacity and modify the audacity.cfg settings file. Reinstalling Audacity does not change the language …