Audacity Forum

I had a minute to mess with this. This is the whole track just moved up one octave. Seven white piano keys.

You're not hallucinating. Audacity will not Save a sound file.

<<<so I just saved the recording as a .aup file. >>>

Well, no. You saved an Audacity Project one of whose many files is an AUP file.

Open the Project in Audacity and Export a WAV file.

Koz

So to bottom line this, you will be converting what you have, which appears to be the beat of a perfectly healthy human, into Something Else that's more theatrically useful.

Those are two valid tools so far.

Koz

Load the clip and Effect > Change Pitch. A panel opens that lets you change pitch in whatever form you like. Percentage, Hz, or keys on the piano. One octave is half or double frequency. Experiment with it. You need to be seriously higher than what you have to be theatrically useful. Most of the sou...

I see you never mentioned the word "iTunes" in any of that. Are you managing the music through free iTunes for Windows? iTunes will do a terrific job of converting music to AAC or MP3 or whatever you want. Audacity is a terrible converter. If that's all you installed it for, that may have ...

I think that only works once. The instant you press Stop, the pathway vanishes. I could be wrong, but I think that service is a cousin to clicking inside the Red Record Meters. That goes away after Stop as well. I think the only way to get reliable competent continuous monitoring is go outside of Au...

Don't confuse that with theatrical heartbeat. When movies and television do heartbeats, we push the pitch of the sound up much higher so TV set speakers can deal with it. Don't confuse that with reality. You have an actual, real heartbeat. You may be able to pitch shift it up higher so it "soun...

I don't get any metalic sound. It sounds like a perfectly normal heartbeat to me. What are you listening on? I have a killer sound system and all of the sound is coming from my sub-woofer and bass speakers. If you're on a computer sound system, you're overloading it and listening to the speakers bea...

Edit > Undo.

That won't work if you save your project and come back next week. Projects don't save Undo.

Koz

<<<I am not knowledgeable in sound technology and this setup took me quite awhile to figure out.>>> I can well imagine. I have trouble following it and I've read it three times. <<<it therefore affects primarily the short-term (transient) sounds and the long-term overall loudness of the file.>>> Pre...