Making Music Using ONLY AUDACITY

Today I finally take on my most requested challenge and make a beat using Audacity.
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[@DolanDark]

Make music using only microsoft powerpoint

[@ignore2466]

Actually a good suggestion Love ya Dol'

[@altinberisha7046]

love your content

[@VortXMusic]

Dolan Dark Why are you here Grandayy? Go away... Shoo shoo

[@gnightrow4020]

then with an Antivirus program of choice

[@vz2428]

Content thief

[@astrocrowbeats]

The audacity of this video...

[@Areorn]

73 people disagree ;)

[@booba3287]

Hydra Jamm thankfully*

[@user-ty6we2sp2m]

Die Puns are no no

[@nast8219]

@Nour Benaboud It really wasnt tbh

[@jjnoble]

The audacity of this joke...

[@XxLukexX]

2018: Making music with audacity 2019: Making music with notepad 2020: Making music with a microsoft word 9999: Making music with ms paint

[@cbemomo1985]

10001: making Beat with radiation

[@robots9146]

10003: Making a beat with telepathy

[@LOEVI]

10004: Making a beat with a computer i made out of space debris

[@robots9146]

10005: Not making a beat

[@aashishvats2012]

100000: Making a beat with nothing at all.

[@steamonkey9927]

School computers all have Audacity on them, gonna try make a song in it after this

[@draccoon]

hit it

[@teoop]

Audacity is freeware, you can download it into your computer

[@Multi-Waves_Music]

Or Just Get FL studio Demo Version Or You Could Get FLM3 For 14.99 On Most App Stores That's What I Did

[@TheAssyrianking]

The spark of motivation is awesome, go head and explore in the realm of production young grass hopper

[@AmityHardstyle]

Unless you live in Puerto Rico... where everything is shit and boring :v

[@Im_Practical]

Lmao why am I getting Minecraft vibes from the song😂

[@pititbossou]

Ikr!

[@tevthecanadian3250]

Same.

[@pedro.arce.m]

The synths and the tempo

[@johnnhuang]

HELLA

[@timiflash5248]

Same here man. Really felling it

[@ServidaMusic]

Make a beat with just your mouse. And by mouse I obviously mean the animal kind.

[@pewyoutuberii4175]

Servida Music What? That makes no sense. What animal kind?

[@qubetown195]

@@pewyoutuberii4175 The Animal Mouse

[@liamsmith5013]

AND NOW! ON THE MOUSE ORGAN! THE BELLS OF… ST. MARYS!!!

[@qubetown195]

@@liamsmith5013 OH MY GOD, STOP HIM!

[@1d10tcannotmakeusername]

Hang on, I think this is a job for Andrew Huang.

[@BizarreG]

Not gonna lie this song sounds Minecraft like, kinda digging it though..

[@npc6924]

Bizzare Minecraft has a great soundtrack

[@jden]

I know this comment is a year old, but nobody is really acknowledging the pun, so... I acknowledge the pun. Bravo

[@bttrfffffln]

the pun is actually really good. wishing you all the best.

[@user-qv9ho1lj3z]

Bizarre agreed

[@vvladgfhjkm]

I usually use audacity to record myself playing some instrument. Today when I woke up I just thought for no reason if it possible to make a track using audacity only. I had the thought only in my head! I don't know if that is a brand new mind reading google algorithm or just a coincidence, but KZbin have recommended to me the video answering the very question all of a sudden and now you have a new subscriber. What an amazing world we live! :) Ok, now I go to watch the rest of your content.

[@dado_ii8540]

I totally understand what you mean! Yesterday I woke up and after a very long time of procrastination Ive collected the right mindset to go on creating - I started making the music Ive always wanted! Then when I made food I started YT for this break and got suggested "How To Be Creative: How an Artist Turns Pro" by Storytellers, which totally summed up all my thoughts around it! Just why on that certain day did I get a video that was nearly 2 years old? That's crazy! edit: btw when I wrote this comment, yours had 42 likes xD

[@rickeyhicks3800]

U 2 literally took 2 weeks to write dis so sad

[@TheRealElsaJean]

Chat bare waffles

[@2bithustlers444]

Absolutely unreal. Dude makes an epic beat out of thin air in Audacity 😮

[@FrostFir3Official]

Hence the statement: it doesn’t matter the gear, just your knowledge of your craft

[@beingsactual]

_"He actually did it, the absolute madman!"_

[@Pilzefresser]

this is why levi is underrated

[@neoqueto]

Stating the obvious here! :D

[@burningsticks]

why?

[@RacoteroGaming]

I cant even make somethink considered sound in FL.

[@robots9146]

Caz el Loro just add more soundgoodizer. It makes your stuff sound good, it's right in the name! /s

[@altinberisha7046]

Russ still takes an L

[@Multi-Waves_Music]

robots914 😬

[@Multi-Waves_Music]

More sausage fattener

[@robots9146]

Multi-waves Offischal Right, don't forget the sausage fattener. Also, you should always mix your songs to at least +5 dB, if it gets all crunchy it means you're doing it right.

[@ninjaflashed]

I'm making a Java game; I hope to use what I've learned here to make some sort of soundtrack. This was a big help. New to the channel but just seeing how you vibe is gonna keep me coming back :)

[@GoreHub_Inc]

Sounds a bit like vaporwave

[@RealMephres]

GoreHub Inc. It's SynthWave.

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

What's the deal with this sudden Vaporwave surge? Is that the new Dubstep?

[@lostintheslush]

vaporwave is really nice

[@KevinContreras2013]

Vaporwave got very popular in 2012, around the time Dubstep hit the mainstream.

[@sentientpotato6660]

KRAFTWERK2K6 Dubstep is to vaporwave as swing music is to heavy metal

[@ignore2466]

Oh wow, just realized how little subscribers you have for these high quality videos..

[@nekrug5960]

yeah me too

[@matthiasvdpoel]

Well, I'm pretty tall...

[@baxterstockman703]

if someone wants to learn how to make music on Audacity, this isn't the post. Audacity of course, is used to edit more. Levi is just doing a challenge.

[@meduka_meguca]

That actually sounded really freaking dope, you should recreate that in whatever DAW you usually use and make it into a full song!

[@VortXMusic]

0:06 that's my comment... Hehe

[@roland72777]

make a track in audacity !!!!

[@kookysis2741]

congrats lol

[@bubblypisces5807]

Ooh cool lol :)

[@VortXMusic]

@Alan Przybyło Yup, that was my channel name a year ago. Had a different channel pic too 😁

[@adamg.8419]

I had no idea this was possible to do in Audacity

[@Moonmoon-ws6jo]

its possible if you know what you are doing apparently.

[@TiMSKiii]

this is one of the best channels

[@kookysis2741]

hey papatimmy love your channel.

[@tridentremixes5449]

I've tried doing this before but it's so tedious! Awesome video!

[@Povilaz]

Make a song using Audacity's "Raw Data" feature.

[@Architector_4]

**takes existing song in .wav format** **loads it as Raw Data** Done! :D _(although I agree, with all the glitchy noises that come up when putting .exe's as Raw Data are weird and awesome)_

[@ropan]

as a person who uses audacity, this is actually impressive aaa imma try to make me some music with it now! thanks levi! :>

[@Pixey003]

can belive you had the audacity to do that

[@exedeath]

Try to make music using only notepad. PS: HOW IT WORKS: First line must be [ASCII XXHz, Channels: YY, Samples: ZZ, Flags: 1] Replace XX with the samplerate you will use,YY with the amount of channels (1 for mono and 2 for stereo) and ZZ is the amount of samples the song will have, the length of the song. Then you will have the other lines, each line will have an single integer number between 32767 and -32768, the amount of extra lines will be the amount of samples or the amount of samples multiplied by 2 if stereo. You can use the audio editor called goldwave to listen to it and then convert to wave, flac or whateaver audio file format you want.

[@eeriemyxi]

Hey i brain is going to dead

[@2bithustlers444]

Absolutely unreal. Dude makes an epic beat out of thin air in Audacity 😮

[@TorontoPopulistConservative]

Audacity is really good for making ambient sounds. Get a small clip of voice or instrument and then use the paul stretch effect.

[@_profile]

ong

[@Adm-qg3ho]

Interviewer: So what DAW do you use Levi? Levi: Yes

[@janniboy2766]

Really is there any challenge that could stop HIM ?!?!

[@Zargorth]

Make a beat while sleeping :P

[@mayravixx25]

Making a beat using only a leaf.

[@mayravixx25]

Oh, true. Plus he'd be able to sample other sounds from said leaf, say if he were to slap the leaf.

[@simoneferrarese4794]

Making music with Paint

[@beingsactual]

He could put the Paint picture into that pic-2-MIDI converter, Simone.

[@akfjskngksj]

Me: *slows the pitch of a song with audacity* Wow this sounds really good! Him: *makes a decent song with audacity* It was hard! Me: *dies*

[@Niek__o]

Try making a song in LMMS

[@lucayaki]

Declirious I always tried to use LMMS and was never able to. I got FL Studio and I'm making kinda good beats with less than 1 month experience in the software

[@insufferablebunnycuddler2225]

LMMS is just a little less intuitive and takes more getting used to than a "prettier" DAW like FL Studio, but yes, by my own experience I can assure you that LMMS is just almost as good as a paid DAW and is EXTREMELY POWERFUL to the point it'd be really hard to tell the difference in the finished product. I just love it!

[@tromino2598]

Yeah. It's a bit buggy, and the quality of the built-in plugins can vary, but otherwise it's pretty good for free software.

[@EVRLYNMedia]

i've only created the most basic beats in lmms. i wish i had fl studio so i could make something good easier

[@tromino2598]

Have you tried the demo and actually found it easier to use than LMMS?

[@sammington01]

Well this is awkward! I make all my music on audacity 😬😄

[@flacidhouse350]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/iXSycoCEgd2SmZY

[@landen.c]

So do I, but I use my IRL instruments too.

[@TorontoPopulistConservative]

Wouldn't it be kinda like how they used to make music? Record a track of guitar, record a track of piano chords, record a drum beat and then record some lyrics.

[@sammington01]

@@TorontoPopulistConservative Most likely. Live music just in a studio. Update tho, I switched to FL Studio almost 3 years ago and now have 3 platinum albums (except that last bit)

[@michaeljfan9720]

Fun fact about me: I recreated the sample from Daft Punk's "One More Time" as well as Modjo's "Lady (Hear Me Tonight)" in Audacity using the songs they were sampled from! I did it all in Audacity!

[@Trefalas]

first 60secs and my Audacity skills already cry in shame

[@lokishq]

My friend would say : "THATS HARD AF MA BOI"

[@MonshiieeYT]

So nice :)

[@saramoon425]

Good luck on getting 1 mil!

[@maul6117]

Where was this video 12 years ago when I was using audacity

[@Ambynt]

This man is a wizard. I was really vibing out to this.

[@tahir2443]

This dude always happy. I wish I was like him

[@bn444]

I've watched quite a few beat making videos/tutorials, and you are, by far, the cheeriest guy I've watched

[@chirpiegames7393]

Poop di scoop

[@eyre_]

- Make a beat using fasttracker 2 or similarly obsolete tracker software. - Make beats using maximum polyphony of 1, 2 and 3 voices progressively, while still including as many of the normal ingredients as possible in each instance. - choose either 1, 2 or 3 samples. Creating a beat using only these and the tools included in either Simpler or the FL internal sampler. - Do all of the above in a single track for the ultimate challenge. When i first started making music i used audacity like this to create completely unlistenable avante garde noise music. Many years and many, many DAWs later this video really brought back memories... Mostly of how tedious and unstable audacity is. Congratulations on making something so enjoyable! Your videos are great!

[@Axelade]

Audacity isn’t unstable, it’s not even for music production.

[@eyre_]

Axelade it was unstable when i was running it on a decade old single core windows xp machine with 256MB of RAM and a 20GB hard drive lol. Also I'm aware what audacity is for. It has served me very well in that purpose many, many times.

[@Supermanchoo]

Make a beat using LMMS

[@robots9146]

Supermanchoo Seconded! Only stock plug-ins or free plug-ins too.

[@lucayaki]

Declirious As I already commented, LMMS is way harder to use than FL

[@insufferablebunnycuddler2225]

LMMS has the 3xOSC and also ZynAddSubFX as stock plug-ins. That'd make things extremely easy. It'd be the same as using a paid DAW with powerful VSTs pretty much, it's at that level, even if it's harder to learn at first.

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

@ Supermanchoo: ^this!! Would be great to spread the word of LMMS and getting more people to use this outstanding piece of opensource software.

[@militantmarxman5275]

nice job. I started with a Roland MV-8000 drum machine but as of the last 2 years I've been making all my beats in Audacity. find it quicker & easier actually. cool to see other people using it, it boils down to who's making the music rather than what you've invested $$ wise for your studio gear.

[@darrellpidgeon6440]

That sounded great. I haven't opened Audacity in a while. I used to love making sounds from scratch. I should have written stuff down, though. I can't remember how I came up with a trombone sound. Or the electric guitar. Or a violin. I like the pitch bend feature that can be inserted into a track. It's not done the same way as in a DAW, though. And, yes, it does add to the tedium. But the results are often worth it. I think I will open the program today. I have some ideas. Since I like your content so much, I should subscribe. Thanks.

[@yashasvik2958]

yo my man how'd it go?

[@Sukaichae]

Make music using nothing

[@Jimbodawg]

Sukaichae music is nothing.

[@Sukaichae]

What

[@pielson8151]

Oh my god why is this comment so meme

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

@ Sukaichae: HA!!! Already done that way by a dude named John Cage. Look it up. The song "4'33" for example.

[@Dipsxi]

I hate that some people think they need expensive programs to make music, because that couldn't be more wrong.

[@hyunii5891]

The better the program, the more tools available, the better the song. It also makes things take less time and be a lot more convenient. Just saying :P

[@Dipsxi]

Limiting your tools makes creativity thrive and unlimited tools can make the creativity die.

[@TheDominator]

...no

[@dannyvalentino328]

I think you are confusing limiting with tedious. True, you don't need expensive tools, but Audacity is not a very good program to make music. You can use it, but it's not a DAW. There are free DAWs out there if you want to try one. Reaper and Tracktion come to mind. If you have a Mac, Garageband is included as a free app and it's bloody good. Using Audacity to make music is sort of like using a Corvette to haul lumber. It can be done, but urrgh!!! in the time you take to make one track in Audacity, you could have made several songs in any other DAW, including the free ones. Also, can you do Midi in Audacity, AU and VST's? No. Audacity's strength is that it's an audio editing and recoding tool. It's not a creative tool.

[@ambs9564]

@@dannyvalentino328 if any audacity encourages you to use / record real instruments

[@elliottmunger5154]

I didn't not even realize you could do many of these things in Audacity. This is a useful video.

[@danydzn]

always good never bad

[@alexeyl1739]

This is my favorite video on youtube

[@PYCMusic]

Try making music in AudioSauna

[@DragonSoulMusic]

Oh man I used to use that!

[@JPWarrant]

All of the bass in this song sounds soooo incredible

[@maskiiofficial3345]

Make a beat using only pitched drum noises

[@PCgmesforever]

This should be included in "people are awesome" compilation ! :D

[@benjaminbrady2385]

I used to do this with all my music a few years ago... it was not fun

[@balldontliepodcast8673]

this sounds like it could be in minecraft or sum lmfao

[@DARE-zd8xl]

Next time you could to do a Beat using only windows stock sounds😄

[@maurits4845]

DARE I’ve actually done that before and after editing some of the sounds you can definitely make a synth and percussion. I don’t want to promote it, but if you’re interested what an amateur producer like me can do with it I can link you to my soundcloud. No worries if you’re not interested though

[@B1SCOOP]

Imagine that in the 50s and 60s, when synthesizers weren't around yet, to make Electronic Music, you had to do literal cutting and gluing together samples with analog tapes. That's how was created original Dr Who Theme for example.

[@ItsM-px9sy]

The sub-bass was too loud, but it was a cool beat. :) Now make a beat using LMMS (nothing external)

[@robots9146]

M4730gg he'd probably have to spend a couple months learning his way around the Zyn UI in order to make anything good without external plugins. Still, I'd love to see that.

[@Machivode]

lmms actually isn't bad It just takes practice I use it all the time for digital heavy stuff

[@epicfaze5447]

Where is the video about samples we make? I can’t wait my dude the anticipation is at its max!

[@BlazingSlav]

Make music using only lmms

[@robots9146]

DJ Frank only free plugins or LMMS stock plugins too

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

+1 for LMMS! More people should use it!

[@hectorthealchemist]

Chill and nostalgic vibes. I dig it

[@cmams4196]

Make music utilizing earrape...challenge

[@letsnotdothat4837]

ooo i did that once

[@rileyares]

This could actually be used to create acoustic music pretty easily

[@awawpogi3036]

Make music using ms paint

[@nathanbenzomusic]

Wowo that's actually very neat, didn't knew Audacity was capable of this!

[@arjo_nagelhout]

Make music only using VCV rack

[@jaceeekgary]

I feel like he’s done this many many times

[@nx7188]

Make music using Microsoft Paint...

[@-TheFacelessGamer-]

I plan on learning how to, and eventually making songs only using the sounds in a video game. For example, I was planning to use only sounds from the first Five Nights at Freddy's game. Only sounds from that specific game. Just pitch shift stuff and add effects. FNaF was an example and a several years ago, I found a site that gave you every sound in FNaF 1, 2, 3, and 4 which is the primary reason FNaF will be the first game I use for this project. I'm only telling you this in case maybe you want to try something like this as a challenge.

[@GoodBoy-ty8km]

Levi Niha? More like "the successful version of Dolan Dark" am I right fellas?

[@blazerlazer55]

what

[@moonhorizon9245]

i dont understand

[@jonathanwilliams5384]

HAHAHAHAHAHA

[@matty1745]

every meme maker is a music producer for some reason lol

[@mathew2.041]

Dude, you're so rad. Thank you for this!

[@theradiantdehd3997]

Yeesh. I was thinking this wasn't going to work at all. Somehow you pulled off something half decent. Then again, with how tedious of a process as it appeared to be, I still feel Audacity is a pretty useless program.

[@zorbat5]

TheRadiantDehd could be handy for a quick record or music cut... Nothing more thenbthag though

[@soopgodreal1550]

I use it to record vocals. It's pretty good for a free program

[@SquirtIeSquad]

its not useless as a sound recorder or recording editor, but other then that yeah it is.

[@dannyvalentino328]

It's not useless, but it's definitely not made for music creation the way Logic or Ableton etc was made. It's an audio editor and recorder. Like I told someone, using Audacity to make music from scratch is like using a Corvette to haul lumber. It can be done, but trucks tend to do that much better.

[@theradiantdehd3997]

Danny Valentino True, but generally if you're editing audio it's for one of two things. Music, which you'd need a better DAW to actually make a song efficiently, or for Video Editing, which you'd need a good video editing program like Sony Vegas or Adobe Premiere which both already allow you to edit audio far more efficiently than Audacity if you know what you're doing. That pretty much makes Audacity obselete, even if it IS free.

[@StackableGoldMC]

3:40 When heard this at first I tought Minecraft.

[@ornirvemos8177]

Bruh audacity is garbage lmao

[@kuku7763]

I've got some pretty nice challenges, take a look: 1.make a beat only with 3xosc again but without any modulation matrix (which means he can't make drums with only 3xosc) 2.make a beat only with samples, Edison unavailable

[@clownward]

First

[@Splarff]

You you small idiot

[@breadboardgamer2262]

hell yeah that is pretty darn good. I'm jealous of your skill mate.

[@bigfattasses]

Sounds pretty lit

[@mr.futurestrader2115]

This surpised the heck out of me! I literally only use Audicity to change MP3/MP4 to .WAV files.. Maybe add a bass boost or mess with the levels of a song; but you literally made a backround out of it bro! Much love, tedious indeed 👌

[@Swaggely]

His smile grows wider every time the camera zooms on him...

[@BunniBuu]

This is sick! I'm totally going to try this out! Looks like it might take quite a long time for my perfectionist tastes, though

[@KobbGaming]

he makes this look so easyyy, I can barely make functioning beats with a midi keyboard and FLSTUDIO 12

[@insufferablebunnycuddler2225]

YESSSSSSS, I'M SO HAPPY SOMEONE FINALLY DID THIS!! Audacity is really fun to work with and has so much potential even when it comes to producing, I'm so happy to see someone finally using it like this! You absolutely rock, dude!

[@belbun5681]

WOW the talent!!!!

[@Foxarocious]

Bruh you are cold AF. I didn't even know this was possible and I've been using Audacity for audio manipulation and file conversion this whole time lmao. Doesn't look as intuitive as FL or other DAWs, but still, damn!

[@IAmKye]

That pad sound is actually so nice damn

[@Noone-of-your-Business]

Way back in the 90s, when the Commodore Amiga was the pinnacle of homebrew "multimedia", I created a precussion sound by _drawing_ in the wave editor. I don't remember what post-processing I applied after that, but I did use it in a short drum loop, spread out over all 8 channels that my sequencer was able to offer.

[@rameynoodles152]

Dang, somebody needs to make a music studio program that is focused on generating instruments by manually editing the waveform for the instrument, and easily allowing you to plop the notes down. Very similar to an old style tracker program, but much more user friendly.

[@DannySullivanMusic]

That was ridiculous. Props to you, good sir!

[@shamrysham9964]

previously i installed audacity on my notebook, then had to format it back.. past few days installed it back just for fun and edit some music for mu videos.. *boom* this video in my recommendations XD thank you

[@TheGokuAndSonic]

I'm very impressed...this was very impressing to me for some reason

[@rhynosoris3396]

This song sounds like it has a cold... nice content brotha!

[@happyeverydayeverydayokay3407]

Awesome! I have downloaded this program a couple of months ago but don't even have an idea on how to use it.

[@Yurei2K]

He sounds like the coolest guy you can hang around with.

[@CassieCollision]

Wow, you managed to make essentially Minecraft music using Audacity. Color me impressed.

[@zigarettenbruch6999]

Holy shit! You're amazing! I didn't even know you could do any of that in audacity. Ha! I just use it to record and trim samples.

[@blehblehbleh6719]

YOU ARE SI UNDEREATED I HATE IT YOU DESERVE A MILLION SUBSCRIBERS NEW SUBSCRIBER HERE

[@TeaRStudio]

Most of the community : "Audacity isn't a DAW!" Levi Niha : *"Hold my beer."*

[@DixonJohn]

Never knew Audacity can make something like this. Cool man