Audacity Forum

I think it's better than even chance you're actually recording your laptop built-in microphone, not the PreSonus. Plug the Presonus in and let it settle down and then start Audacity. Change the Device Toolbar > Recording (microphone symbol) to whatever the Presonus looks like when it mounts. Some po...

Step one. Save your show as an Audacity Project with a unique name (and maybe on a different drive). That's so you have something to go back to if it all goes into the toilet. Thumb drive in your pocket is good. I'm sure there are far better ways to do this, but Shift-Select all the tracks and use t...

What happened when you tried Effect > Change Tempo? You maybe able to use a combination of effects to get there. That is a very serious change and I would expect to hear some damage.

Koz

The 80 minute (really more like 78 minutes) is only valid if you make a "real" Audio CD. Do you really think you can trim a 90 minute show down to 78 minutes? You can also just speed up the show. Effect > Change Rhythm...I think. That will give you that "Void where prohibited, License...

Getting one sound to directly affect another is what Effect > Vocoder does. You can fade in and out of the effect by having a "clean" track and an Effect track and fading between them (rather than trying to get the effect track to do everything. http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/vocoder...

It's easy to get into the weeds quickly with tech problems, but to recap: We know what the microphone is. Nice unit. We know you have a nice voice. We don't know which FastTrack you have and it can make a difference. We don't know which computer you have. That can make a big difference. Fill in the ...

You are intended to get one of those standard Mac graphics where you drag this icon into that icon to install the program. Find Audacity in Go > Applications and double click it to launch.

Drag the application into the dock (attached).

Koz

The current Audacity is 2.1.2 from here:

http://www.audacityteam.org/download/mac/

Are you using one of the accessible versions?

Koz

One day just to do it, I set up in a very quiet third bedroom with a rock band microphone and a simple, small sound mixer on a Mac Laptop. I was able to produce an ACX compatible sound clip by just changing the volume a little bit in post production. All three specifications. No filters or effects. ...

I got storm clouds. Avid M-Audio Fast Track You need to get us closer. I get multiple hits when I search for that. Do you have a Fast Track Solo? http://www.amazon.com/Avid-Fast-Track-Solo-Interface/dp/B00W4L8B9A%3FSubscriptionId%3D099W0TADMGQY7JWQJM82%26tag%3Dtelevisionsco-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26cam...