Audacity Forum

Yes, I accepted the 10.9.3 upgrade that came it early this week from the app store and Audacity didn't work since that point until I downgraded it to 2.0.3.

I have this same issue. It is solved bu uninstalling 2.0.4 or 2.0.5 and installing 2.0.3. This issue started since I upgraded the OSX last night. Even when I uninstall the app, I get the click. Something is incompatible with the latest Mac OSX and 2.0.5 (and 2.0.4) but is fine with 2.0.3.

And I Googled around and this student's report (http://graduateaudioseminar.wordpress.com/2010/03/) shows SMAART live with pink noise flat in 1/12 octave mode. Blue. Hope this helps illustrate. I realised that my excel doc didn't upload is it was too large.

Gale, Steve, Offer the user what fraction of an octave resolution they want when in Log mode and then suitably sum the bins to achieve the width selected. The higher the frequency, the more bins will be summed in order to maintain a constant resolution per octave across the spectrum--ie. Logarithmic...

Dear Gale, It doesn't seem you are going to persuade anyone. Can you show us a graph online showing flat response in pink noise with amplitude against log frequency? Or an image in an audio tool that shows it? If not, what would your Feature Request be - a graph to show power spectral density agains...

Hi Gale, White noise doesn't have much energy in the low frequency so there will be less perceived overall level change upon introducing a 5k HPF with the white compared to the pink--and this is what one would expect. Quite simply, a piano keyboard is logarithmic, our hearing is logarithmic, musical...

Hi Steve, That is true for a an analyzer whose bandwidth is a constant percentage of the center frequency of the filter, but that is not what "Plot Spectrum" is, and is not what "Plot Spectrum" is intended to be. My point is that Plot Spectrum should be exactly that when in Log x axis mode otherwise...

Hi Steve, sorry to keep banging this drum, but a spectrum analyzer with a log x axis that doesn't show pink noise as flat is at best misleading and at worst plain wrong. I won't keep going over this (I'm just trying to improve this otherwise great app) so I'm out. Best wishes.

Thanks Kos. The plot does indeed correctly show the amplitude of each frequency bin but this is meaningless from an audio perspective and on a log chart if each bin is the same number of Hz wide; it should be showing amplitude per equal portion of octave or decade when set to log. So an FFT to creat...

Thanks Koz but both the plot you found on Wikipedia and the plot that Audacity generates are misleading. Pink noise has equal energy per octave band (or per decade band) and used over white noise because it typically matches the way we perceive sound. Pink Noise sounds flat and it should look flat w...