WavePad

Name: WavePad Author: WavePad Development Team Publisher: NCH Software Copyright Date: August 2009 Platform: Mac, Windows Peripherals: Keyboard, Mouse, Speakers, Microphone Grade/Age: All ages Type of Class: Any level
 * General Information:**

http://www.nch.com.au/wavepad/faq.html No lesson plans are offered.
 * Teacher Support:**

-WavePad is a program designed to digitally alter any manner of musical content. It clearly borrows the style and functions of Audacity, while expanding with some original content. It can also convert an audio file into nearly all commonly used audio files (mp3, WAV, AIFF, etc.). -Fulfills Musical Standards 3, 4, and 6.
 * Instructional Content:

****Instructional Design and Pedagogical Soundness:** WavePad is clearly inspired by Audacity, and as such it is equally intuitive at a glance. It offers many useful functions, such as looping, cutting and pasting, altering volume and pitch, adding echo and reverb, and more. ** It can either work with a pre-existing sound file or audio can be directly recorded by the program (assuming you have a microphone). The only thing that bothered me was the fade in/out tool, with which you cannot control the rate of volume change. Students can use WavePad as a means of recording themselves and making mp3 files of their works. They can alter these works intuitively, and it introduces some techniques that are used in more complicated digital recording. **

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 * Record Keeping:**

WavePad is a perfectly sound tool for editing digital audio files. Whether you prefer this to Audacity is purely up to your personal tastes. Still, as a free program, it is sufficient for educators and students to record and alter audio to their liking. **
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Created by Gregory Tongue on 11/14/09