Audacity Forum

Topic moved to Windows forum board. The current release version of Audacity is 2.3.2. If you don't have this version then it is recommended to update. The current release version of Audacity is always available via the Audacity website: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/ but now when I t...

This forum board is for feedback and bug reports for Audacity 2.3.3 alpha. Is that the version you are using? (look in "Help menu > About Audacity")

Why have you installed "iShowU audio capture"?

Continuing from my previous post.
Re. Sample Format:

Keep Audacity at the default "32-bit float" format. If the sample format from the audio input device is lower than this, Audacity will losslessly convert the samples to 32-bit float on the fly.

So now in Audacity when I select this recording device and select WASAPI I should be able to record with Audacity automatically locking onto the sampling rate value and bit depth of the input device. No, Audacity does not lock onto the sample rate / bit depth of the input device. An example of why ...

pg19081968 wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 03, 2019 4:02 am

a mic to record acoustic guitars?

Your topic title says "to record vocals"

You will find lots of relevant information in this forum thread: viewtopic.php?f=27&t=22109

LEJSOUND wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 03, 2019 9:43 am

i need to find software that generates voices from text. Is this something that Audacity can do?

No, Audacity can't do that, but if you do an Internet search for "text to speech", you will find plenty of options (some free, some paid).

Regarding your question about the eliminated feature, I read it in this thread from user PhantomTollbooth : And as you will see in that thread, although I have used Audacity since the early days, I have no recollection of there ever being such a feature. So again I must ask: "What feature has ...

For completeness (and most accurate), you can also get the peak level via the Nyquist Prompt effect (https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/nyquist_prompt.html)

Linear scale: dB scale:

But I still can't uerstand why Audacity developers should eliminate such a useful feature What feature has been "eliminated"? for monitoring See: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/meter_toolbar.html#playback and knowing the peak level As DVDdoug wrote, you can read that from the Amplify...