Nice analogy. However you do not need to know much to use Audacity. I was introduced to it in University where they try to get software for basic student use that is common to a class yet does not bear even more financial burden. Many students struggle to buy books and other gear.
Audacity was used in all of our NLE and webmedia courses as a tool for audio capture mostly but some introductory process work as well. It has just gotten better over the years. In it's way Audacity is far better than the image processor GIMP which suffers a much worse interface, and much more inaccurate and misleading instructions and tutorials. Powerful, yes. Usable? Absolutely. And a CNC machine that easy to get started on would invite further experimentation for sure. It might even be a source for a world of fun. On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 12:55 AM, Bruce Johnson <john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu > wrote: > > On Aug 7, 2012, at 8:32 PM, Tom wrote: > > > > > Another thing I found: if you hit Stop, and the capture stops, and then > you hit Record again, it starts recording back at the beginning again, > recording right over what you've already got, so you don't want to do that. > (Maybe I should choose a second capture window?) > > You need to save what you've captured , open a new capture file, or do > like the popup tool tip tells you, 'hold down shift to append recording'. > > Part of the issue here is that Audacity is an extremely powerful, mature, > pro-level audio processing tool that happens to be open source. > > It's kind of like buying a $30k CNC mill, attaching a sanding drum to it, > and using it to sharpen your pencils. > > > -- > Bruce Johnson > > "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for > those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power > Macs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list > -- Adrian D'Alessio aka; Fluxstringer fluxstrin...@gmail.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/fluxstreamcommunication/ http://www.facebook.com/FluxStringer http://www.linkedin.com/in/fluxstreamcommunications http://flux-influx.blogspot.com/ http://fluxdreams.designbinder.com/ -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
