

Storage, too, is no longer an issue: the highest-end M1 iPad configurations include terabytes of storage. However, Audacity in principle does support a tablet PC running Windows (including Microsoft's "Surface with Windows 8 Pro" tablet)…Īs of 2021, some new iPads and Macs now share the same Apple Silicon M1 processor so, according to the FAQ answer above, there should no longer be a performance obstacle-iPad should now be more akin to the Windows tablet PC situation mentioned above. Therefore, considerable rewriting of Audacity and its interface will be required before Audacity will work on portable music players like iPod, smartphones like iPhone, tablet computers like iPad or any of the Nexus devices running Android. Also the wxWidgets interface library we use only has limited support for mobile operating systems and small screen resolutions. This requires more processing power and disk space than is available on most mobile devices.

However, there is new reason to hope for Audacity on iPad: it appears the technical obstacles cited by the Audacity team for the lack of iPad support are disappearing.Īs of this writing (April 2021), the Audacity FAQ includes the following:¹Ĭurrent versions of Audacity work internally with uncompressed audio to permit high quality editing with a wide range of effects. Also, some would not agree a proprietary product-especially one requiring payment to unlock all features-is actually an “equivalent” to open-source Audacity. I haven’t found another suitable alternative. You want the audio levels to be between -24 and -6.The currently-accepted answer, WavePad, seems to be sporadically unavailable on the App Store (at least in some regions). You can monitor the audio levels by looking at the top right monitor. To adjust the audio input levels in Audacity use the sliders located right under the play/stop/record buttons. If you don’t see the Snowball mic on the list go back to your Control Panel (PC) or System Preferences (Mac) and make sure that the Snowball is showing up and working. If it isn’t selected (like in the screenshot below), then:Ĭlick on the arrows on the right and select Snowball mic from the list In Audacity make sure that the Snowball Mic is selected in the dropdown list. Navigate to the Audacity web site -, select your OS and follow the directions on the Audacity website.
