Audacity Forum

Steve, Good Info~! I am beginning to think that there might be several things happening with this audio. Attached is a small fragment that shows waveform peaks getting chopped at +/- 1.0, exported as an .aiff 32-bit float. If you zoom out to /- 2.0 the clipping is obvious. The A/D is performed on th...

I'll check how the .aif files were recorded and let you know what the bit format is. I am concerned that if Audacity does not allow levels over 0dB during a file import, then the utility of Audacity is inherently limited in some real world situations. Here's my application, and why peak levels will ...

When importing .aif files (recorded on a Mac), Audacity seems to be chopping off all portions of waveforms that exceed +/- 1.0. When I right click the scale to view an imported track at +/- 2.0, the waveform of the entire imported is definitely getting chopped off exactly at +/-1.0, evidently gettin...

I am trying to record audio arriving on a USB port on a Ubuntu 10.10 laptop. The audio is being sent by a Mackie ProFX12 mixing console. In Audacity Edit->Preferences my choices for recoding devices are: - HDA ATI SB: ALC268 Analog (hw:0,0) - pulse - default None of these appear to be seeing or proc...