GENERATE MENU
If you choose an item from the Generate Menu when there are no tracks
in a project, a new track is created. Otherwise, the current track is used.
If a track is selected and the cursor is placed in a single place in the track
audio is inserted at the cursor position. The default duration is 30 seconds.
The audio created will replace the any selection, otherwise it is inserted
into the track, shifting up later parts of the track.
Silence - Inserts silence.
Tone - Creates a Sine wave, Square wave or Sawtooth wave.
White Noise - Inserts random audio samples, which sound like pure static.
Any items which appear after these three built-ins are VST, Ladspa or Nyquist
plug-ins. It is possible for a poorly written plug-in to crash Audacity, so always
save your work before using a plug-in. Note that any effect that doesn’t take
any audio as input will automatically be placed in the Generate Menu.
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