Audacity Forum

Given our recordings and what you say about the "same song", please see if this might be closer to what you seek. Appealing to me is probably hopeless. About the second or third seventh-minor-diminished chord in a row and I'm looking to go make a nice cup of tea. [Room Diagram] You keep d...

One thing I noticed is Audacity may try to export your work to the program folder or some other awkward place instead of My Music or My Desktop. Make sure you know where the export is going.

Win7 can be really particular about unusual things happening to the filesystem.

Koz

Found it. It was buried in my cellphone. http://www.kozco.com/pix/SM58SoundBoard.jpg That's a plain, ordinary Shure SM58 Rock Band microphone sitting in a shallow hole (so the mic doesn't roll around) cut in the center of a piece of 1/2" plywood . It's 30 inches on a side. You don't need the ho...

This mixer has a USB pushbutton that switches between "Main Mix" and "FX." It's possible that's the control that allows you to hear the playback of the old tracks in your headphones for overdubbing. If that's what it is, it's very valuable to us for you to say so that we can add ...

I wouldn't worry about trying to do much post-processing on the recording See? You're doing miles better than most people doing recordings like this. Sooner or later we're going to get to the room. You said you had placed the microphone on or near the ceiling. You should be careful not to get the m...

Almost all mixers have a place to put your headphones to monitor what you're doing in real time. That part's a no-brainer. Some of them also let you play the computer's existing tracks into your headphones at the same time. That reverse path is required for sound-on-sound recording. You need to list...

You could play the music in iTunes and use Stereo Mix to re-record it in Audacity. Use the computer to turn the MIDI presentation into sound. Then, once Audacity has it, use Effect > Change Speed to get what you want. Export to a new sound file. Audacity will not "Save" a sound file. Again...

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Real time? Audacity doesn't do any effects or tools in real time. Koz

MIDI isn't music even though it seems like it is. It's machine control instructions and it will sound different on each computer, keyboard and player you try. That's the down side. You need to open it up in a MIDI program or sequencer and change the timing there. On Macs, I think Garage Band may do ...

Still not my music. Contemporary Jazz? I know the theory behind it, but it sounds to me like people playing several different songs at once. So my ears are hopeless, but I seriously doubt you're going to get better recordings with your equipment. One of the downsides of making recordings like this i...