Audacity Forum

It's not distortion. It's noise. Once we got rid of most of it, the guitar sounds fine.

I need to come back in a bit.

Koz

The envelope tool is one of the tools in the Tools Toolbar.

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tools_toolbar.html

Select the I-Bar tool for normal editing.

Koz

As a rule, you can't Silence Audio. That will leave tiny Blackness of Space sounds in the performance. It is recommended you paste a short snippet of room tone (normal background noise) into the hole. That will generally be a more theatrically graceful and pleasant solution. Whatever you do will cau...

I didn't say sharing was a celebrity, I said the problem was. Somebody would have to recreate the environment and have it fail the same way.

Koz

Celebrity Problem. It's such a specialized failure we're not completely sure where to start looking—or how.

Correct me, Audacity appears to be doing what it was designed to do: work on one machine as a local task.

Koz

The distortion you have now is normal. If you carefully inspect the music, you may find that it's mono or "left" instead of stereo. That's normal, too. Your older machine happened to have a sloppy soundcard which would deal with that. Your newer soundcard probably does a much better job wi...

You can get Audacity to continue an existing recording by pressing Shift-R (Append Record). Audacity should record in the format you set with the Device Toolbar. http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/device_toolbar.html Audacity will like it best if it matches the actual device. Some stereo devices w...

Everything is fine if you run Audacity locally?

Koz

USB "iHome" (non-Apple) wireless mouse But you get a similar effect from the trackpad. You have a celebrity problem. The idea of the forum is a meeting of people with similar equipment to compare problems and solutions. Celebrity installs have no similar people. Anything in the Apple foru...

I doubt it. You get the same installer. I think one comes with the instructions—something like that.

Still waitin' on that mouse info.

Koz