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I don't know the exact process, but I'd be shocked if you couldn't move your tracks to another machine. The prospect of note by note editing on a tiny LCD screen is scary. I found it valuable to Google "frammis complaints," where frammis is the product or service I'm interested in buying. ...

Can you reach the green ball in the upper left? That's a size toggle.

Koz

Audio Interfaces work on the premise that a general purpose computer can be made to do any job by appropriate programming and a little hardware here and there. You usually have a computer anyway, so why not put it to work? It's also insanely cheaper than a DAW. However, there can be significant prob...

Which OS-X and which computer? I'm typing on a MacBook Pro with OS-X 10.9.2.
Koz

You've still not told us what you are actually trying to do? Are you just using Audacity as a file format converter? That would be good to know. If you're doing very simple cutting and exporting, there may be much better software for that than struggling with doing something that Audacity doesn't w...

Is MP4 lossy?

AKA M4A. Yes.
MP3's full name is MPEG1, Layer 3. So this compression process has been going on for a while.

There's a really short list of "lossless" compressed audio formats, and some of them, as you found, have other problems.

Koz

I'm pretty sure it's in here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/sample_workflow_for_lp_digitization.html Scroll down to Track Names. That's a subset of a larger transfer wiki: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tutorial_copying_tapes_lps_or_minidiscs_to_cd.html We should remember that Audio CDs...

A popping balloon might destroy a ribbon microphone notoriously sensitive to sudden massive air movements. Koz

That's all about sound quality imo, since it will give the voice more presence and clarity in the best case. Yes, but divorced from ACX sound file standards. Maybe after you achieve ACX compliance, then a second pass for theatrical quality. I did build that into the last step. Anything that produce...

Or you could do what at least one other poster did. 8 microphones, native multi-channel.

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Koz