Audacity Forum

He's talking about Effect > Amplify. Built-in effect. <<<since audacity crashes when I compress the whole recording>>> We will now experience the problem of posting in a generic forum. Which Audacity are you using and on what kind of computer? I don't know that I agree with Whomper's workflow. If yo...

<<<Im using snow loepard 10.6.3 and audacity 1.2.5.>>> One problem is you're using Audacity 1.2.5 on a Snow Leopard machine. Intel Macs under Leopard and Snow Leopard do not support Audacity 1.2. In spite of the warnings and labels, Audacity 1.3.12 is the current release for newer Macs. http://audac...

I would compress the whole performance first. Chris works on "Look Ahead" processing and uses relationships of each part of the performance to each other. It very occasionally has troubles with beginnings and endings. If your whole performance is a series of beginnings and endings, then th...

Chris's Compressor may be a good fit here, too. Chris evens out the overall volume variations of a performance. It doesn't affect the crispness of the sound, but it may help.

Chris's Compressor
http://pdf23ds.net/software/dynamic-compressor/

Koz

<<<will the amplification process produce any type of distortion? >>> No. Effect > Amplify has to be intentionally adjusted to create clipping or over driving damage. The default setting, as I recall is to make the loudest single peak in the performance be 0 -- just before clipping. Amplify and Norm...

<<<it is unclear that it can take midi from the pc and create sound>>>

Given the software support, MIDI can go backwards. You can press the keys on the keyboard an have the MIDI interpreter inside the computer make and play the notes. I've had systems that could do both.

Koz

A MIDI connection goes from the computer to the keyboard. The computer, using a MIDI sequencer program, tells the keyboard which key to press, when and how hard. That's all it does. If you're listening to the keyboard on headphones, you get to hear the note. The computer is the performer, the keyboa...

<<<What will happen if I try to export the whole thing as an MP3 file? >>> I believe Audacity will try to mix the two tracks into one show -- play them both at once. Not what you want. You can use Record Pause to stop recording long enough to change the tape and then pick up right where you left off...

There is significant effort to upgrade the forum software to a much more modern system that allows more tricks. Since there is a "staff" of one human working on this, we wait until they're happy with the conversion and help where we can.

Koz

You're not thinking big enough. I ship files all over earth on all three computing platforms and I maintain the department standard of not using spaces and trying really hard not to use multiple periods in filenames. I think it's lovely that the standard is to allow multiple periods, but if the clie...