Audacity - Generate Menu

# Generate Menu

If you choose an item from the Generate menu when nothing is selected, a new track is created and filled with 30 seconds of whatever type of audio you requested.

If a track is selected and the cursor is placed in a single place in the track, 30 seconds of audio are inserted at the cursor position.

If a region of audio is selected, audio is inserted at the left edge of the selection, and the length of the inserted audio is equal to the length of the selection.

Silence - inserts silence

Tone... - you can create a Sine wave, Square wave, or Sawtooth wave.

White Noise - inserts random audio samples, which sounds 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.