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Technology Tools: Audio

Remixing your essay? Working on a digital project? Looking to create your thoughts in a media format? Here are some useful tools to help you reach your digital destination.

Audio Apps

Audio Creation Apps are available for all levels of tech ability as well as a variety of platforms.

PC -- OS -- iOS -- Android -- Linux

The apps listed below are divided into two areas:

Apps on the left are more voice oriented for creators.

Apps on the right incorporate more ability to integrate music creation.

Capture (within MyCourses)

Create an audio clip for students or create a dropbox to add the option to record audio as a form of assessment.

Audacity

 

Audacity is a downloadable program that will allow users to record voice, music, and sound. You can multilayer tracks (e.g. voice over music) as well as edit or splice tracks together. Files can be saved in multiple formats including MP3.

SoundCloud

SoundCloud is a social sound platform where anyone can create sounds and share them everywhere. Recording and uploading sounds to SoundCloud lets people share privately or publicly to blogs, sites and social networks. SoundCloud can be accessed anywhere using the official iPhone and Android apps, as well as hundreds of creation and sharing apps built on the SoundCloud platform.

Royalty-Free Sounds to Use

Soundsnap Sound FX hunters has a user-friendly search interface. Paid subscription required.

Free Music to Use

The MP3 Archive has all of the mp3 posts they link to as legal, free, full length downloads that were made available with the artists’ permission.

GarageBand

 

 

GarageBand is a whole music creation studio right inside your Mac — with a complete sound library that includes software instruments, presets for guitar and voice, and virtual session drummers. An intuitive interface makes it easy to learn, play, record, create, and share.

AudioSauna

Record, Write, Edit and Mix  

AudioSauna is a full-featured audio workstation with an easy-to-use and straightforward user interface. It enables using several advanced polyphonic synthesizers, samplers and live effects in real-time in the browser.

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