I want to generate a tone of a specific frequency, a few seconds long so I can replicate it into a much longer file. I can‘t find how to easily generate a toneand record it.
Generate (sine) tone …
You don’t need any special tool to generate tones — Audacity can do it very easily.
Just open Audacity, then go to Generate → Tone from the top menu.
There you can choose:
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Waveform: (Sine, Square, Sawtooth, etc.)
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Frequency: (for example, 440 Hz or whatever tone you want)
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Amplitude & Duration: set how loud and how long you want the tone.
Once you click OK, Audacity will instantly create that tone on your track.
If you need it longer, simply select and copy the generated tone, then paste it repeatedly to extend the duration.
Finally, you can export it as a WAV or MP3 file. Super quick and clean — no recording required.
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Is that what ChatGPT told you? Better to just generate the length that you need.
Repeating the tone may cause glitches at the repeat points, so that is not a reliable way to generate long tones.
I just assumed that’s what you would do. I’ve never seen the tone generation controls. Now I know where they are that’s brilliant.