Audacity Forum

The question has not rippled through all time zones yet, but so far, you stumped the band.

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Koz

Are these live recordings? You singing in front of a microphone? All Amplify and Normalize do is increase the overall volume of the show until the one loudest peak in the whole performance approaches overload. If you touched the microphone by accident or somebody shot a gun during the show, that's t...

Audacity doesn't speak MIDI, so whatever you do there, the computer or controller has to talk to the MIDI device (Yamaha keyboard???), and then you need to provide an audio cable between the MIDI device and Audacity. No doubt you are using a Windows Laptop and that's an interesting problem for audio...

You may need a couple of rules. In Audacity, Amplify and Normalize are sisters of each other. They increase the size of the waves until one sharp peak wave somewhere in the performance touches zero. If someone fires a gun or drops a bottle on the floor in the performance, then that sound will take o...

Did you set Audacity Preferences to 48000, 16-bit Stereo? Those are not Audacity normal settings. Restart Audacity after you change the settings. If you're not using DAT specifications, try 44100, 16-bit, Stereo.


Koz

<<<I want to increase the volume in the .mp4/.mkv files I store them in.>>> You won't be doing that in Audacity. Audacity always converts your show to a high-quality internal format for editing and then Exports a whole new file. This is very nice for editing, but messes with you if you have compress...

I don't usually get the fonts to match so well when I do it. <<<My mind is going. I can feel it.>>> Yes, yes. Anybody can dig up their favorite movie quotes. The trick is to gracefully fold it into a conversation about going to the Tesco for a tinned pint and have the others in the car effortlessly ...

Google itself has been doing some serious background stuff. I was reading a long feature article with simple pictures but no animations or movies. Every so often, my computer would go into the Spinning Beachball of Death when it couldn't keep up with "something." The note at the bottom of ...

Silence Finder only works on records you hate. They're the ones you played once and then put them on the shelf. They're still in wonderful shape and the spaces between songs just have a little groove noise down there. On the other hand, the records you really loved you played constantly and really g...

Tiger 10.4 on a G5 should be reasonably happy with 1.2.6. That's what we're running on one of the machines at work. Don't even think about Leopard-ing your machine. That crosses the recommended version numbers into the land of fuzzy. Are you the administrator on your machine? You can get into troubl...