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I don't think I can follow that. Can you post a screen shot?
Koz

Effect > Vocoder is a multiplier.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR_Bjf-a5rs

Koz

They all played fine on Saturday.

In Windows Media?
Koz

Vocal removal only works on a stereo show with different sounds on left and right. This is a mono show with the same sound on left and right. If you watch the bouncing green sound meter, the two are the same.

Koz

Effects will be gray if you're in Pause instead of Stop.

However, you don't need to go through all that. We packaged all those steps in Effect > Vocal Removal.

Don't fall in love with the idea, though. Most songs don't let you take the vocals out.

Koz

Audacity > Preferences > Interface > Language.
Koz

Sure. You want overdubbing, similar to playing and singing to yourself multiple times.

http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Tuto ... k_Overdubs

Koz

Effect > Amplify > 5dB (top number). Sound doesn't work very well in percent. You would think that would almost double the volume of the work, but the increase will be almost not noticeable. The blue waves on the timeline are in percent because it's easy to edit like that. Notice the bouncing color ...

Is this the same computer you were using then?
Koz

No. Not recently. Audacity uses a lot of computer hardware memory (RAM). It's not unusual for Audacity to be the only program you own that does that. If you have a bad stick of RAM way up in high memory and the computer tries to use it, it could crash your computer. Computers used to take forever to...