Audacity Forum

OS X El Capitan (version 10.11.6) Running on a what? I have a Macbook Air. Audacity makes harsh noises That's not a lot to go on. Can you describe the noises? Are there noises with Audacity stopped? Are there noises between words or songs? What is the show? What's playing on the Mac? Start with a f...

The Yeti is supposed to be able to Plug and Play with generic settings on most computers. However, I have had Stereo/Mono crosses get messed up. I don't remember the failure in detail, but I told Audacity to expect a mono microphone and instead, the microphone delivered in stereo. It didn't just cre...

There's a more exotic version where you make a Dolby Surround music file and put the click track on one of the five channels, say Center, and send Front-Left and Front-Right to the audience as stereo playback. That means the performance computer has to have a Dolby Surround soundcard.

Koz

Last check, Audacity does not support multi-track playback, so there is no sending stereo sound to one place and mono sound to somewhere else. You might be able to cheat that by making a stereo track with your show music in mono mix on Left and the Click Track on Right. Send Left to the audience &qu...

It's not unusual for people to go down the wrong pathway to get to the Plug-Ins Folder. Go (top of desktop) > Go To Folder: ~/Library/Application Support/audacity Type or copy/paste that line into the window > Go. Audacity is not capitalized and don't leave out the squiggly line (tilde) at the front...

Do we know why it crashed? Windows 10 doesn't just up and crash for no reason. It would be good to know what got that bad.

Koz

Special Effects Add Up. Now you know why it's terrifically important to produce a good quality voice track right at the beginning and not depend on effects, filters, and editing just to make your voice sound normal. Without a good studio and microphone, you will need to do those corrections on every...

This is a forum, "Users Helping Each Other." If none of the regular helper elves has any idea, we can wait for someone to post that has solutions.

Koz

We are replacing two professionals. Three if you count the voice artist. There is a good rule of thumb. Post production editing takes five times the length of the show. That's best-case. It's remarkably accurate and you can use that rule in preparing for your show. If editing/production is expected ...

Last time we got a request like this, it turned out to be far easier and faster to find a sound you like on-line and use that. There are royalty-free services. By the time you build a specific sound up from individual parts, you'll be in a walker and ready to retire to a nice home somewhere. https:/...