Audacity Forum

neenahrose wrote:...can anyone suggest where there are free or reasonable priced audio clips compatible with Audacity that I can download?

https://freesound.org/search/?q=EDM

So is it safe to assume there's no way to prevent editing a track? I want the master track to remain untouched. The latest incarnation of Audacity (2.2.1) allows different colored waveforms ... https://manual.audacityteam.org/m/images/3/3f/waveform_colorways.png https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYSOmYyNHpU

... a small vertical bar appears over the playback icon ... I can't understand why that vertical bar should appear unless it's a Windows function. It does occur normally in Audacity if you press the "Ctrl" key ... vertical bar on green play triangle buttons.gif I've never seen the bar &qu...

... I have no idea what some of the parameters are supposed to do. Could someone please explain what each one is and what it does? See ... http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/sc4.html SC4 has real-time preview in Audacity so you can experiment with its controls and instantly hear what effect they ha...

pennyroyaltea94 wrote: GUITAR RECORDING ... Now meters are in the RED but ... I thought RED mean't it's going to start sounding horrible and clip ?

Clipping on electric guitars can sound good : a Jimi Hendrix fuzzbox effect.

https://youtu.be/YPdRympMf2Q?t=30s

Trebor writes: Yours is a Linux problem, not an Audacity problem. Could you elaborate a bit more on that please? Audacity, nor any similar DAW , can't record from devices which are not configured properly : they can't record from devices they can't "see". Adjusting QJackCtl should enable ...

Veerstryngh Thynner wrote:... thank you for replying. However, fact of the matter remains, unfortunately, that I can't record at all! Once again, I tried every possible combination of options as offered in the drop-down menus ...

Yours is a Linux problem, not an Audacity problem. I think the solution lies in QJackCtl

The pan control on the left side does that of course, but I'm thinking this is a playback control, and won't save the result when I save the project. If you save as an Audacity project it will remember where the pan slider was. If you save as an audio file, e.g. WAV, MP3, you'll need to Mix & r...

PuzzlerBob wrote: I was thinking more like... View > Zoom > Save Zoom

Store region.

PuzzlerBob wrote: and View > Zoom > Restore Zoom

Retrieve region.
If you want to zoom the selected region to fill the screen press