Audacity Forum

Since this is the Windows® forum, you need to keep your hard drive relatively empty and certainly defragmented. Anything that can slow down a live performance may cause Audacity to crash and not having any place to put the captured work is right up there in importance. We point out that live perform...

One more. Where are you and is the plug in the floor two or three prong?

Koz

Getting rid of it at the recording or capture stage is by far the most valuable way to do it. It can also be the most difficult.

You need to describe exactly what you're doing. Where did the hummy performance come from? Yes, yes plug in the floor, but where the the sound come from?

Koz

Do you think you have enough smileys?

The Effects pallet does not become active until after you select some audio on the timeline. Either Click-Drag, or Edit >Select > All.

Koz

<<<or the tendency of 1.3.5b to crash a lot.>>> No System Drive on a video or audio production machine should ever drop below about 10% free space. Both the operating system and programs start getting really nervous and unstable the fuller your drives are and it shows up noticeably at about the 90% ...

The problem, and I admit it's not a big one, is that Phono Inputs have a very specific characteristic to match the photo cartridge. Something like 47,000 ohms shunted with 15 pFd of capacitance. That's what the cartridge is expecting to see at the other end of that wire, and it's comfortable with th...

The direction may depend on what you have. Are you trying to match a very low live performance with pre-recorded dance tracks? It's not just volume that doesn't match in that case. The dynamic range of each performance is way different. So describe the pieces. There are different tools depending on ...

<<<it is a bug that will affect a certain class of computers that run with a certain speed/have a certain amount of disk usage/etc.>>> I love those. IF you're drinking decaf AND it's Thursday, AND you drive a blue Aston-Martin... So has this fix been folded into one of the 1.3.x issues? Koz

Download the six-second piano trill from here... http://www.kozco.com/tech/soundtests.html ...and open it up in a fresh Audacity. Can you hear that? That's a known, good, working sound file and it plays on all the Audacity versions. If you can't hear that, then we get to dig in the machine. It's not...

The Party Line is that you can have both 1.2.x and 1.3.x installed on your machine at the same time, but you can never have more than one Audacity open. Even instances of itself. It gets nervous and can easily produce damage.

Koz