{"id":1625,"date":"2012-06-24T18:17:23","date_gmt":"2012-06-24T22:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/?p=1625"},"modified":"2013-01-09T01:24:36","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T06:24:36","slug":"sound-effect-story-fly-fishin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/2012\/06\/24\/sound-effect-story-fly-fishin\/","title":{"rendered":"Sound Effects Story: Fly Fishin’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“House fly” by YIM Hafiz, on Flickr<\/p><\/div>\n

The ds106 Digital Storytelling course Sound Effects Story Audio Assignment 70<\/a> gave me an opportunity to devote some time developing greater familiarity with Audacity<\/a> and the sound source website, FreeSound.org<\/a>. While I normally would turn directly to Apple’s GarageBand<\/a>\u00a0for something like this, I wanted to see how layering and track editing worked in the open source sound editor.<\/p>\n

I was pleased to be able to sort out the various tools without turning to documentation — although I didn’t sort out how to effect a pan from one channel to the other (left to right, in this instance). \u00a0This will have to be a challenge for the next task. I also missed a simple way of naming the tracks to allow for their easy identification (although the waveforms do develop an identity after you’ve listened to them a few times). However, I did enjoy being able to toggle the interface for each track down to a very slim profile, as that made it easier to align two tracks that didn’t lie adjacent to one another in the stack. Cutting sections from one track was intuitive, and pasting sections into a newly created track worked just as expected.<\/p>\n