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by Irish
Thu Feb 18, 2010 9:28 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Help Me With My Thesis Project Please!
Replies: 16
Views: 1152

Re: Help Me With My Thesis Project Please!

Upgrade to Audacity 1.3.11, available here: http://audacityteam.org/download/ 1.3 has a function called "Sound Finder" (Analyze > Sound Finder) which will place labels on the regions where there are sounds beginning after silence. You can choose the level of the threshold between sound and silence. ...
by Irish
Wed Feb 17, 2010 1:07 am
Forum: General Feedback and Discussion
Topic: Suggestions needed for how to Email MP3
Replies: 10
Views: 3392

Re: Suggestions needed for how to Email MP3

You can use a file sharing site, such as http://www.sendspace.com There are lots of others as well.
You can upload the file to the site, send the station an email telling them it is there, and they can download it immediately.

PO'L
by Irish
Tue Feb 16, 2010 4:58 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Unstable recording level
Replies: 3
Views: 596

Re: Unstable recording level

A poor USB connection can cause the symptoms you describe. If Audacity loses the USB signal, it will not regain it, even if the signal itself comes back, until Audacity is closed and opened again. A few things to check: Check that the USB plug is securely inserted in the socket and is clean. Any sig...
by Irish
Sat Feb 13, 2010 9:46 pm
Forum: General Audio Programming
Topic: quantizing (timing)
Replies: 10
Views: 18332

Re: quantizing (timing)

The closest thing in Audacity to what you are looking for is probably "Beat Finder". This tool tries to work out where the beats are in a piece of music, based on the amplitude of the signal, and places a label at each beat. However, it is easily confused by pauses in the music, or any change from a...
by Irish
Fri Feb 12, 2010 3:20 pm
Forum: Recording Techniques
Topic: HELP: Sound variations between two computers
Replies: 11
Views: 1727

Re: HELP: Sound variations between two computers

One possibility is that there are "Surround Sound" or other effects on the sound card in the new machine, and that what is happening is that the effects are being added to the recording you make, and again to the playback. The tweaks, if there are any, will be in Windows Control Panel > Sounds and A...
by Irish
Fri Feb 12, 2010 3:05 pm
Forum: Mac OS X
Topic: Waveform color....
Replies: 6
Views: 3502

Re: Waveform color....

You can change the color, even without themes enabled, but you have to edit the Audacity configuration file and the graphics file yourself, and there are a few glitches with it.

If you feel you can do it, see this thread for the detail:
http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 17&t=23200

PO'L
by Irish
Tue Feb 09, 2010 10:03 pm
Forum: General Audio Programming
Topic: quantizing (timing)
Replies: 10
Views: 18332

Re: quantizing (timing)

Can you be more specific? What exactly are you trying to achieve?

PO'L
by Irish
Tue Feb 09, 2010 10:01 pm
Forum: Audio Processing
Topic: Isolating instrumentals
Replies: 1
Views: 404

Re: Isolating instrumentals

First, a word of warning: these inversion tricks only rarely work the way people expect, and very often don't work at all. They are based on the fact that if you have two tracks (say the L and R tracks of a stereo recording which you have split into two mono tracks), and you invert one of them, you ...
by Irish
Mon Feb 08, 2010 9:52 pm
Forum: General Feedback and Discussion
Topic: Losing One Key Instrument in Recording
Replies: 12
Views: 1691

Re: Losing One Key Instrument in Recording

By the "Analyze" function I assume you mean the "Plot Spectrum" function, since that is the only one in the Analyze menu that doesn't have one specific purpose. It's difficult to give you a more succinct (or timely) answer than what's in the manual, but ... "Plot Spectrum" will give you a spectrogra...