Audacity Forum

We all know it's a dialog, but sometimes that gets past the posters.

Koz

<<<I use a small mixing board in to the sound card on the CPU. >>> Just a clue to the frustration you're going to have later (I predict). Do you have the sound board plugged into the Mic-In of your laptop? It's mono. Most Windows laptops do not have a stereo Line-In connection like large deskside PC...

I'm not one of the Windows Elves, but I can tell you one of the first questions we ask is whether or not you have a relationship with Skype. Skype viciously reassigns sound pathways to do what it needs to get the job done and what you want after the fact isn't relevant. Sometimes the pathways go bac...

Intel Macs under either Leopard do not support Audacity 1.2.

http://audacityteam.org/download/beta_mac

Koz

<<<I recorded my Church's Festival of the Arts in 6 channel audio (drums, piano, bass, choir, etc.) for later mixdown to stereo. I failed to mention that I wasn't thinking and so I forgot to reset the project rate to 44.1kHz :oops: Had I done so it probably would have worked. >>> You stepped in one ...

I can do better than that. Newer Macs do not fully support Audacity 1.2. http://audacityteam.org/download/beta_mac Sooner or later, you're going to hit some particularly egregious 1.2 error and flush your show. You don't have to un-install 1.2. Just put 1.3.12 on top and it will pick up all your old...

Microphone systems are a dance between noise problems and clean, pure music. Each step in the process generates both and it's your job to make sure the music wins each time. "Condenser Microphones" work by slight movements of two metal plates inside the microphone. That's what your voice d...

MIDI isn't a sound program. MIDI is a music management program, so it's not concerned with sounds so low they only show up on a CalTech Seismometer or so high only dogs can hear them. The fact that Audacity can do these things is, in my opinion, an Audacity shortcoming. So for MIDI to deal with it, ...

<<<I was wondering how the values in the frequency analysis (from the menu option "Analyze->Plot Spectrum") are calculated.>>>

So were we.

Koz

<<<I downloaded audacity 1.2.6a for mac.>>>

That may be the difficult step. Which Mac and Operating System? Apple > About This Mac > Read me the Processor and Version lines.

Koz