Audacity Forum

As a side note, did you see the movie "Despicable me?" The little yellow minion characters are famous for not using any known language, certainly not English, but they have zero trouble telegraphing their meaning with whatever sounds they make. That's a cousin to what you're doing, right? ...

You did give me a terrific idea. People are always posting about applying the "announcer filter" and make them into a famous announcer/presenter. Of course, there is no such thing, but we always get stuck on why. How do you explain vocal acting, interpretation, and expression. With a kazoo...

I can't think of a way to do that. Anything that will eliminate the pronunciation of the words enough to obliterate them will also take out the tonal variations you want to preserve. You can trash human speech remarkably and still be able to understand it -- see cellphone calls. I'm not completely c...

No. Audacity is post-production only. Nothing in real time. Koz
Koz

Audacity works in 32-float. Straight PCM (pulse code modulation) offers a fixed collection of digital bits and sound levels and it's up to you to fit your show into that. Float, in general, means the system will assign bits and levels to you wherever they're needed. Koz

Nowhere is it written that you have to have a chop between the two tracks, You can crossfade and do tricks to integrate the effects into the show. This is what a crossfade looks like using the envelope tool. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/CrossFade.jpg The music on the top track will fade out an...

It's the button with two sideways arrows.
Audacity doesn't have a lot of effects sounds. I think there's, what, two?

Koz

Overdubbing gives you sudden volume insanity when you record Everything on the computer instead of just the device you're singing into. The backing tracks get recorded twice -- or more. Use the Device Pulldown (toolbar) and make sure you are recording from something real you can touch, not a magic d...

Sometimes your system can be keyed to the content such that it goes on-line and looks for other information not carried in the actual file. This is how you get song titles on Music CDs. Music CDs do not carry titles, but people will swear they do because every time they put a CD in the computer to p...

Typically, these systems treat any steady sound as interference or noise and tries to get rid of it. This is fine for non-singing voice, but it's deadly for music.

Koz