Audacity Forum

There is a crash recovery process... Crash Recovery http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=CrashRecovery Then you can stop using Audacity 1.2. The latest 1.3 Audacity is much less likely to crash and cause problems. http://audacityteam.org/download/ You can install both versions, but only use ...

Let's break the system in the middle and see which half is misbehaving. Pull down piano2.wav from here...

http://www.kozco.com/tech/soundtests.html

...and see if it plays OK.

Koz

It's possible they don't entirely know. Skype is a clever piece of work and its success is due in no small part to its vicious take-over of the machine sound services. That's not particularly easy to do (on two different platforms, thankyouverymuch) and the fact that they're so good at it leads me t...

<<<Also vocoder, but I got the impression the original poster wanted something completely human sounding.>>>

Perhaps the "LaFontaine Module?"

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 28&t=28341

Koz

How would you do that if I walked in dragging a very large checkbook behind me?

Koz

<<<its common knowledge that you never record a guitar straight out of an amp; rather, you use a microphone over the amp.>>> Yes, but. What you were doing should have worked. The only way to get the amp effects is to mic the cabinet, perfectly true. But if you wanted to add effects later and record ...

<<<Plot spectrum uses a series of "buckets".>>> That's how the older spectrum analyzers used to work. Then some genius figured out the Fast Fourier Transform shortcut that everybody's been using ever since. Similar to trying to explain MP3 compression to somebody with only a fuzzy understa...

<<<What's the difference between hosts MME and Windows DirectSound?>>>

...he said asking the Mac user.

I have no idea. You have one of those problems that one of the Windows elves is going to solve in fourteen seconds flat.

Koz

There's a simple sounding question. I think the official party line has you zooming into each edit point (drag-select and Control-E) and setting a label at the expected point. Control-B, I think. Control-F zooms out full. Control-3 zooms out a little bit. Then it's a matter of drag selecting the are...

Edit > Preferences > Recording > Overdub (play old tracks while recording new ones). That's how its done in Audacity 1.3.12. http://audacityteam.org/download/ Audacity 1.2 is getting on in years and having more and more problems with modern computers. You can have both Audacity versions on your mach...