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Audacity
(back to top)
http://audacity.sourceforge.net for
more information.
Audacity is a free audio editor. You can record
sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV,
AIFF, and MP3 files, and more. Use it to edit
your sounds using Cut, Copy and Paste (with
unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, or apply
effects to your recordings. It also has a built-in
amplitude envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram
mode and a frequency analysis window for audio
analysis applications. Built-in effects include
Bass Boost, Wahwah, and Noise Removal, and
it also supports VST plug-in effects.
Audacity would be the easiest application
to use to create just an audio podcasts for
iTunes U or to create your own audio. It also works on Macs, Windows, and Linux machines.
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GarageBand
8.5 (back to top)
http://www.apple.com/garageband for
more information.
GarageBand is the easiest program to learn
how to do general podcasting on. You can record
your own audio, edit your own audio, and put
together a podcast with drag and drop capability.
GarageBand can be used for videocasts, enhanced podcasts
to make your media presentations for iTunes
U.
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iTunes (back to top)
http://www.apple.com/itunes for
more information.
iTunes is the Apple media player. It plays
all podcasts, videocasts, and enhanced podcasts.
You use iTunes to access iTunes U through
the iTunes Music Store. You can also purchase
music, movies, TV shows and many other things
in the iTunes Music Store.
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Logic Express (back
to top)
http://www.apple.com/logicexpress for
more information.
Create your own music using an advanced spectrum
of features and tools for computer based music
production. Logic Express provides a step up
from GarageBand for aspiring musicians, producers
and composers without breaking the bank. With
the same flexible layout as Logic Pro, you
can dive deeper into the creation and manipulation
of audio and MIDI.
- Control critical mixing functions, software
instruments, effects, and routing for any
track.
- Create and arrange music with software instruments,
Apple Loops, and live recordings of instruments
and vocals.
- Automate mixing and effect parameters with
the same
powerful tools the pros use.
- Import QuickTime movies and create
music for video.
Logic Express is more for an advanced user of audio mixing to make a podcast for iTunes U. |
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Logic
Pro (back
to top)
http://www.apple.com/logicpro for
more information.
The industry-leading application for music
creation and audio production dramatically
broadens the capabilities of computer-based
studio environments with Logic Pro 7. The first
choice of many prominent musicians and producers,
Logic Pro 7 provides the most comprehensive
collection of music creation tools.
- Access to all effects and instruments.
- Recallable track effect and instrument
configurations.
- Per-track assignment of distributed audio
processing.
- Advanced QuickTime support with output
of DV or DVCPRO over FireWire.
- Breakpoint editing of all automated parameters.
- Global tracks for editing, tempo, signatures,
markers, video and more.
- Shuffle and Auto-Crossfade Arrange Edit
modes.
- Flexible, object-oriented editing of audio
and MIDI.
- Real-time score transcriptions.
Logic Pro is the most advanced application you could use and also is the most difficult application you can use to make your media for iTunes U. |
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ProfCast (back
to top)
http://www.profcast.com for
more information.
ProfCast is a versatile, powerful, yet very
simple to use tool for recording presentations
including PowerPoint and/or Keynote slides
for creating enhanced podcasts. ProfCast
offers an integrated workflow that makes
creating, recording, and publishing podcasts
easy. It's as simple as Launch, Load, and
Lecture!
Profcast is an easy program
to use to just record any lecture and make
an audio podcast.
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