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by cyrano
Wed Aug 12, 2015 9:43 pm
Forum: Feature Request Archive
Topic: Sensible defaults could make Audacity a lot better
Replies: 62
Views: 5882

Re: Sensible defaults could make Audacity a lot better

AFAIK every audio interface on the planet puts out either 16 or 24 bit samples By default Audacity "puts out" 16 bit WAV files. Like Protools and many other similar applications, Audacity has a native "project" format from which you can "export" (IIRC Protools calls it "bounce to disk") to create a...
by cyrano
Wed Aug 12, 2015 6:50 pm
Forum: Feature Request Archive
Topic: Sensible defaults could make Audacity a lot better
Replies: 62
Views: 5882

Sensible defaults could make Audacity a lot better

1. - Audio settings - 32 bit? AFAIK every audio interface on the planet puts out either 16 or 24 bit samples. Yet, Audacity shows 32 bit in the left pane of the main window. That is extremely confusing. I know that internally, Audacity uses 32 bit float. Every other DAW I know does the same, but non...
by cyrano
Wed Aug 12, 2015 4:24 pm
Forum: macOS
Topic: Automatically import raw data files?
Replies: 18
Views: 1576

Re: Automatically import raw data files?

My only guess here is that it probably is a compressed format since storage is very limited on the ios platform. With high compression and hopefully, lossless. But there's a lot of those around...
by cyrano
Wed Aug 12, 2015 11:13 am
Forum: Recording Equipment
Topic: Multi-Track Digital Recorder vice other solutions
Replies: 17
Views: 2450

Re: Multi-Track Digital Recorder vice other solutions

Tascam (and others) have a habit of announcing 2-channel recorders as 6-channel because they can play back four channels while recording 2... I don't think there is any real 4-channel recorder under 100$ on the market. The Roland R26 is a real 6 channel recorder, but it's around 400$ and still has l...
by cyrano
Wed Aug 12, 2015 11:06 am
Forum: macOS
Topic: Automatically import raw data files?
Replies: 18
Views: 1576

Re: Automatically import raw data files?

I have no idea what the internal format is for Rode's recording app. I've only used it on a couple of occasions, on a friend's iphone. I'd expect those to be PCM and that should work. Also, changing the extension doesn't usually work. On a Mac, extensions don't mean much. It might work with very sim...
by cyrano
Tue Aug 11, 2015 9:58 pm
Forum: macOS
Topic: Automatically import raw data files?
Replies: 18
Views: 1576

Re: Automatically import raw data files?

You've copied Rode Rec's internal sound files. You should first export from the Rode Rec app to a format such as wav or aiff and email the file.

I don't use the app myself, but that seems to be the standard way.
by cyrano
Tue Aug 11, 2015 9:50 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: audacity stops without warning
Replies: 12
Views: 739

Re: audacity stops without warning

Mediashout 5 is presentation software for churches.

http://www.mediashout.com/products/mediashout5

Kind of a multi media PowerPoint on steroids with remote control.
by cyrano
Tue Aug 11, 2015 9:44 pm
Forum: Feature Request Archive
Topic: Waveform antialiasing
Replies: 40
Views: 5796

Re: Waveform antialiasing

It's a bit of a support nightmare if you have to ask if it's on or not whenever anyone posts a waveform picture to this forum, for starters. Audacity (with standard settings) is already misleading. Experienced users will switch the waveform settings to "db" as one of the first things. Newbies might ...
by cyrano
Mon Aug 10, 2015 9:56 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Multi channel recording using Behringer xenyx q802USB
Replies: 27
Views: 7293

Re: Multi channel recording using Behringer xenyx q802USB

Most guitars are Hi-Z. I don't see a guitar input on this Behringer. I'm not sure, since the Behringer site is rather scarce with info...
by cyrano
Mon Aug 10, 2015 5:12 pm
Forum: Feature Request Archive
Topic: Waveform antialiasing
Replies: 40
Views: 5796

Re: Waveform antialiasing

Please, no blurring, anti-aliasing or whatever. A waveform should be as true as possible to the waveform. It doesn't matter if it doesn't look good. It needs to be accurate, not good looking!