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I have used Hydrogen to create a drum track, but when I import into Audacity it has a weird squelchy sound Are you saying that the kick drum sounds different when played in Audacity than it does when played in Hydrogen? Are you listening with the same equipment (headphones plugged into your laptop?...

Is there a way of increasing the bit-depth? Do I have to do this in Hydrogen ... Yes: when you export a WAV from Hydrogen the bit-depth should be 16-bit, not lower, if you don't want the conspicuous digital-artefact noise. Yeah, exported it at 16-bit and it now sounds exactly how it does on Hydroge...

Trebor wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 21, 2020 11:25 pm

Squelchy sound = low* bit-depth

(* 8-bit ?)

Is there a way of increasing the bit-depth? Do I have to do this in Hydrogen first before importing or in Audacity once imported?

steve wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 22, 2020 11:38 am

Camo2125 wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 21, 2020 10:56 pm

but when I import into Audacity

Are you exporting from Hydrogen as a WAV file and then importing the WAV file into Audacity?

Yes, that's exactly what I am doing. Is this part of the issue?

Hi everyone! I am quite new to Audacity and cannot figure this out. I have used Hydrogen to create a drum track, but when I import into Audacity it has a weird squelchy sound (see attached link). I am running this on Audacity 2.4.2 on Windows 10, I have tried going through some effects (noise gate a...