Audacity Forum

Processing speeds up when Audacity is in the background and another application (e.g. Textedit) is in the foreground (only for some effects and when generating silence). As you suggest, this may just be a graphics update lag with a large file. I am new to Audacity and thought there may be a setting ...

I am using Audacity 2.0.3 on a Mac using System 10.6.8. I am working with 50MB MP3 files. I have 0ver 100 GB file space available and over 8 GB memory available. When I generate "silence" over a 5 second period or use the effect "fade in" or "fade out" it takes about 3 or 4 seconds to finish process...