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  • Audacity
  • Vocals

How to autotune in Audacity

Audacity has no built-in pitch correction, so this guide installs the free Graillon 3 through MuseHub, adds it as a realtime effect in Audacity 4, sets the key, dials a natural fix or the hard-tuned effect, and exports — plus which other free tuners still load in Audacity 4 and the mistakes that make tuning sound wrong.

10 min read
  • Audacity
  • Podcasting

How to record computer audio in Audacity

Capture what your computer is playing in Audacity 4: the Windows loopback route in full, the macOS route with BlackHole, Linux in brief, the settings that stop silent or echoing takes, and how to clean the capture afterwards.

10 min read
  • Audacity
  • AI tools
  • Podcasting

How to transcribe audio to text in Audacity

Audacity transcribes audio to text for free, offline, through the Whisper Transcription effect in the OpenVINO AI Tools plugin. It runs in Audacity 3.7.x and does not run in Audacity 4 yet. The words land on a label track under your recording, and you export them as plain text, SRT or WebVTT subtitles.

9 min read
  • Audacity
  • Fundamentals

Do you need MuseHub for Audacity?

No — Audacity installs and runs without MuseHub. What each download option on audacityteam.org installs, what MuseHub keeps running in the background, whether you need an account, how to uninstall MuseHub and keep Audacity, whether Audacity is free and what the charges people see are for, and the facts behind ‘is Audacity safe’: the GPL license, the 2021 telemetry controversy and what the app collects today.

9 min read
  • MuseSounds & notation

What is MuseSounds Pro?

MuseSounds Pro is the subscription for the paid MuseSounds libraries. It gives MuseScore Studio 34 partner libraries at once, from the Vienna, Spitfire and Cinesamples orchestras to Cantai, which sings the lyrics in your score.

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