Audacity is a simple to use and intuitive application to allow a user to record and manipulate an audio product. Audacity can record drumming tracks from Hydrogen, record keyboards from Qsynth, as well as record vocals from a microphone...

Steps to Launch Audacity

<br />If not, you can select the default interface manually:

'''Steps to Manually set Interface:'''

# In the Interface Section, select '''Jack''' to be the host.

# Click '''OK''' to save changes.

'''The procedure to select different instruments in Audacity is subtle! I don't know if this is the BEST method, but here is what I know works...'''

Here is a song demo that I quickly created to demonstrate the quality of the recording:

* Got Megan (my daughter) to practice song (she never sang this song before). She wants to redo this, but you are listening to her sing from only the second take folks (no dubs or "punch-ins").

* Did some post production ('''amplification''' and '''reduction''', '''slight reverb''', and '''fade-outs''').

* I can now "farm-out" this recording (file in format to add more tracks) to other friends (musicians) to add guitar, replace with other drums, vocals, effects, etc...