Audacity Forum

I really need to get something recorded and exported tonight.

You should probably make other arrangements until we figure this out.

Apple (upper left) > About This Mac
Read the version number.

More Info > Hardware.
Read the model name.

The machine is days old, right?

Koz

All memory passed.

Which is the bad news.
Now you have nothing to fix and your machine still takes more than normal attention and care to record a show.

Koz

Audacity does not apply effects or filters during recording. Whatever the computer supplies is what you get. The process can be broken. If the computer is old and can't go fast enough, then you may get a show with ticks and holes in the sound. There's other possible problems, too. Some computers req...

Some Windows machines don't directly support that, but see how you do with the instructions. These change depending on your machine.

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tu ... ndows.html

Koz

Normally the desktop menu bar says Apple-Finder-File-Edit....etc, right? Did you actually install Audacity? Put the .dmg on your desktop, double click and explode it into the program folder and a readme file. Drag the program folder into /Applications. That's the kind of thing that happens when you ...

The down side of this process is you need to make darn sure the computer stays alive during the whole process and doesn't wander off.

"Windows is doing a System Update. Please Wait."
"Windows is entering Sleep Mode. Press the any key"

Koz

Audacity can't Append-Import, where each time you import a new song it jams itself after the last one, all on one timeline. It's a Feature Request, not a current tool. If you have a lot of time, you can set up Audacity to record "What's Playing On The Computer" and then make Media Player p...

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

Koz

Effect > Change Speed,
Effect > Change Tempo
Effect > Change Pitch

Yes, that will be a juggling act.

Koz

It's difficult/almost impossible to split a mixed performance into individual instruments so to make one instrument louder or softer. The people who record a rock concert with nuclear bass notes or neighbor talking on his mobile have the same problem. You could try Effect > Compressor. That, as a fu...