Audacity Forum

I've set Latency Compensation to -369, which does seem a very high number Yes, that's high, but all sound cards are different, and USB devices often have higher latency than built-in sound cards. is this a new issue? No. All versions of Audacity have had a latency correction setting (for at least t...

If you export your recordings as WAV files, you will be able to add them to a CD compilation with Brasero.

mattbarkeraud wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 21, 2018 2:44 pm

is there a way to alter the voice envelope rise time without altering the rate of change of the vocal formants?

Not in Audacity.
You need to use a program such as Antares AutoTune with a supported host application.

It is not recommended to associate audio files with Audacity as doing so will interfere with the normal "play" associations, and it can be annoying to be prompted to save the new Audacity project if all you wanted to do was to play the file. Also, Windows 10 makes it difficult to associate files wit...

Ryhnowood wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 21, 2018 5:40 am

Thanks, ill try the conversion again to wma

Better to convert it to WAV if possible (Converting to WMA will reduce the sound quality a bit).

The recording is trash. You need to start with a better quality recording.

TexasJim wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 20, 2018 10:27 pm

I get the WARNING

Yes, it's a "warning", it's not an "error". It is just telling you that "Save" will create a "Project" and that if you want an "audio file" (such as a ".wav" file) you need to use "Export" rather than "Save".

If my "Project" is a group of folders Not a "group of folders". A project is (usually) just one file and one folder (there are advanced options that go beyond that, but let's not go there ;)) do I have to keep all that in the documents Folders in my computer? You have to keep the ".aup file" and th...

Are you using ASIO or ASIO4All ?

You should not access Audacity's ".au" files directly. They are data "block files" and are integral to the Audacity "Project" structure. To open an Audacity project, open the ".AUP" file. Information about how to safely manage projects is here: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/audacity_projects.h...