Composing Two-track Audio with Poetry & Music

These screen movies show how to use software to record the reading of a poem and accompany it with a music track using Myna. It begins with learning how to find and add music to a Myna audio track, then how to record voice narration and adjust the relative volume of the two tracks. Finally it shows how to save the resulting mp3 file for later use.

Myna Audio Editor

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Part I - Introduction to Using Myna

This shows how to adjust the editing windows for more effective editing. It also shows the procedures for finding and inserting music from the provided online library and how to record and insert audio recordings done by microphone (5:49 length). If the embedded movie below does not play, use this link to part I movie on the Screentoaster site.

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Part II - Completing & Saving the Audio Composition

The screencast below shows more music loops being positioned in the track. This is followed showing how the composition is saved as an mp3 file and the different ways in which this composition can be downloaded or pointers to the screencast embedded in Web pages (5:26 length). If the embedded movie below does not play, use this link to part II movie on the Screentoaster site.

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Parent chapter - Version 1.3, September 19, 2009.  Page author: Houghton