Audacity Forum

I'm sorry if I'm getting irritating. Not a problem. We think you may have discovered a previously unknown oddity. You're a celebrity. I can make normal microphone recordings, but I have a low quality microphone. We're not so much concerned with the voice quality as we are whether the microphone wor...

The built-in microphone on the Mac laptops have an option to automatically process the sound. Screen Shot 2019-06-10 at 13.59.53.png Try turning that off. Audacity has no natural ability to affect incoming sound. It records whatever is provided, distorted or not. It does have a timer and volume trig...

I wonder how many people are using MIDI with the assumption it's a sound file like MP3 and not a programming language.

The files are smaller, right? This is the answer to the eternal search for small files.

Koz

Sometime when Windows is just looking for updates it can totally cripple performance until it has finished and rebooted.

We're making a spectacular case for disconnecting the network while editing. Or not doing production in Windows.

Koz

http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/MyMusicAUP-MyMusic_DATA.jpg That's a Project. Those two have to be next to each other in the same location or folder, they have to have the same name and it has to be the name you gave them in Audacity. If you don't remember what that name was, you can open the AU...

That's why you can play a MIDI tune on different computers and get a different piano each time. Or even better, I used to tell my Cakewalk license to play a song using the wrong instrument. "Which Instrument" is one of the MIDI instructions in the program. Instead of playing Electric Guit...

Do this at least once a month to avoid automatic updates from interrupting your work.

Or, "reduce the possibility..."

Turn off Automatic Updates....?

Koz

Are you trying to edit from Network Connected Drives or Cloud Storage? That's a poor idea. Audacity doesn't like that.

Koz

I acknowledge that this might just be due to the sheer size I think that's a good guess. Audacity doesn't edit sound files. It converts music to it own super high quality internal sound format and edits that. Further, under certain edits, it makes a backup copy of The Whole Show and it can do that ...

Can Audacity do that? I'm going with no. I think we can play them, but not open them or convert to anything else. There may be a wacky, oddball way to do it. They play in Windows Media, right? The computer uses its internal interpreter to give you sound. Set up Audacity to record Music Playing On T...