Audacity Forum

Having system problems in Windows Audacity 1.2 is a killer because the preferences values are all buried in the Dreaded Windows Registry. That's the last time the Audacity developers made that mistake. I swear this came up before, but I can't find it. Use the Advanced Search at the top of the forum ...

Audacity will recognize one sound device. One USB microphone counts as one device, so yes, the one sound device it recognizes will need to be a mixer.

Koz

<<<My intentions were to keep the AUP files as masters,>>> See, now. That went right by everybody. No, you're not. Guaranteed. The AUP file is an Audacity Project Management file. Not a sound file. You can open it up in Windows NotePad and read it. This is a really simple AUP Project File http://koz...

The painful way is to rip the DVD into the transport stream MPEG2 files, then demultiplex the sound files and decode them into WAV format. Or you can set your computer to record "What You Hear" and record the speaker or headphone signal during DVD playback. Some computers lock out this pat...

<<<now your stereo track is two separate tracks with their own volume controls, which you can adjust individually.>>> But if the object is to create a mono performance in order to adjust the computer's playback system , that may not help. What are the rest of the steps to create mono? Koz

I do it by patching the headphone output of the keyboard into a splitter. One half goes to my killer sound system and the other half goes to the Line-In of my computer. Launch Audacity and record my brains out. That's how I recorded the piano performance... http://www.kozco.com/tech/soundtests.html ...

<<<I've edited wav tracks with audacity a million times, so I have no idea what's going on. >>>

Edited wav tracks made by your 8-track recorder? Do your millions of old projects still open and play OK?

Koz

Search the forum for freeverb and gverb. I think those are the ones people go to when they find that the production tools in 1.2 are a little...old. You could also install Audacity 1.3. Much better tools for stuff like this, and you can have both on your machine as long as you don't run both at once...

Mac OS-X looks like a fuzzy-warm® place to be, but underneath all that designer fur is the UNIX computer operating system. This is a good thing. Without that, Macs would be history by now instead of rapidly gaining market share. One of the things UNIX does is write everything down. "It's 9PM an...

<<<i went to open a mp3>>>

That may be what you went to do, but what you actually did was open a non-MP3 music clip that Audacity didn't recognize. You can use iTunes as a file conversion to get out of this...unless you got the file from iTunes...

Koz