Audacity Forum

The second machine may think the missing files are system files and thus are out of bounds. Open Folder Options and tell Windows to stop hiding "Known File Types" and "System Files". Tell it to stop masking file extensions. The next time you do a directory search, everything shou...

This is me watching the thread.

Do you know how long the performance is? I mean the whole thing, not just the part you're going to patch.

Koz

I was hoping Audacity would let me add a label at any point during a recording. It may still and I just haven't figured out how to do it. Audacity isn't a tape machine where you can back it up and record over the mistake. However, it is a killer post production editor, so that's the direction to go....

<<<I have done this before on my laptop without any issues.>>>

But not with the USB microphone....?

Koz

Hi. Mr. Wet Blanket here. People smacking the microphone stand is almost always fatal to the performance because it drives the microphone itself or certainly the microphone preamplifier into a non-linear region or outright clipping. In English it means the stuff is not only disruptive to the ear, bu...

There is a "raw" format, but it's not a production tool.

Wikipedia...
raw – a raw file can contain audio in any codec but is usually used with PCM audio data. It is rarely used except for technical tests.

Koz

No. That's sounds like something you would need a MIDI controller or sequencer to do. The problem is in recognizing which key you pressed... http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/piano_G1.jpg That's an analysis of either a chord on an organ or one single note on a concert grand piano. There's no way to...

Not in 1.2. I think there's a timer in 1.3.

Koz

<<<I want to record from the internet. >>> It would have been good to say that way up at the beginning instead of this side trip down microphone lane. Download SoundFlower from the Apple web site. That will give you additional pathways so you can record directly from the internet without going throu...

This happens when you have the wrong sound pathways open which is easy to do in Windows. Here's a piece on how to record harmony to yourself... http://audacityteam.org/help/faq?s=recording&i=multi-track ...and another piece on running the Windows Control Panel... Windows Control Panel http://aud...