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If you have two connections on your Mac like this... http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/MacLineIn.jpg Then plug your mixer into the Line-In, the thin black circle with two arrows. If you only have one connection go into Apple > System Preferences > Hardware > Sound and see if you have settings t...

Audacity does not save music files. If you need a self-contained, standard music file, you can export one. File > Export > WAV (Microsoft) 16-bit PCM. That's what you make if you're going to burn a music CD. You can Export an MP3 for your personal music player, but you need to install the lame softw...

One of the ways that Audacity uses music files outside of itself is to play your show until it gets to the part where it needs the music and then it points to the external music file. It doesn't make personal, locals copies of the music. If you move either the Audacity Project or the music file, Aud...

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Koz

record from the live piano

What kind of live piano? We just covered a multi-chapter thread by somebody trying to mic his upright.

Koz

Many times Windows will take one look at the USB sound device and naturally assume that sound needs to go both ways. So it's trying to send sound back out to the guitar. You can reset this with the speaker setting in the Audacity Device Toolbar. http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/device_toolbar.ht...

What I think happened is you hosed the microphone connection bad enough to cause the sound management to fail. Stereo Line-Out from an amplifier (or any other similar equipment) in seriously incompatible with the Mic-In of a computer. Mic-In is expecting a tiny signal from a microphone like on a hea...

Which Audacity do you have? I think in Windows it's Help > About.
Koz

As you noticed, you can have a pure tone, you just can't start and stop one. The act of starting a tone generates distortion and distortion is sound that's not pure. What you can do is generate a tone and then fade it in and out. Try fading over five or six cycles. You can use Effect > Fade In and E...

I have the acapella/vocals and the instrumental.

What does that mean? You're all ready to sing and play the piano?

Koz