Audacity Forum

If it's natively a stereo interface (two places to plug in the microphone), the easiest way to stay out of trouble is use the drop-down menu to the left of your track > Split Stereo To Mono. [X] Delete the dead track. The one remaining track with your song on it should appear on both left and right ...

MIDI used to only support 16 instruments at once. Didn't I read somewhere they were re-writing the specification to increase that?

Koz

Filename Hygiene is a good idea, too. Upper, lower, numbers, -dash- and _underscore_ are the only allowed characters. Today is not 3/2/18. It's 2018-03-02.

This suddenly becomes really important if you share work with multiple people not all on the same computer type you are.

Koz

Exporting multiple tracks (more than stereo) is quite a bit more involved. Best just send the parts.

Koz

Select the Sax track by clicking just right of the up arrow. File > Export Selected Audio : WAV (Microsoft).

Do Not do production in MP3.


Don't select anything and File > Export > Export as WAV (Microsoft). Audacity will smash everything together into one show.

Did that cover it?

Koz

Just a note about recording MIDI. You don't. That's what a MIDI editing program like CakeWalk does. Last check what we're doing is applying the MIDI instructions (Press B Flat on a Grand Piano and hold it for Six Seconds) to the MIDI interpreter inside your computer. The Interpreter makes sound and ...

so that we could catch loud yells and not clip. I'm fascinated anyone thought to do that. Works for me. It's a spot-correction tool, not an entire track at a time I can well imagine correction for integration into the show would be serious, but worlds better than the splattering and clipping of a m...

Maybe turn off "Snap To:" lower left.

Koz

Noise Removal was famously useless in the face of white/pink/brown noise. Yet another reason it was abandoned. What's the difference between the two systems that makes Noise Reduction actually valuable to reduce "microphone preamp hiss?" I think the explanation may be a little too fuzzy be...

It was almost PERFECT for removing the noise floor of our studio setup without much altering or fiddling, and without affecting the audio quality any. There were others that claimed very desirable results from Noise Removal. I think y'all are unicorns. I was never able to get the tool to do anythin...