Audacity Forum

When testing beta software, bugs should be reported to the company that makes the beta software. In this case, that's Apple. Audacity runs correctly on Mojave (the current release version of macOS), though it had the problems that you describe while it was in beta. If I recall correctly, the same wa...

I've read on this forum that running effects chains is not currently possible from the terminal. IF you have a sufficiently recent version of Audacity, Audacity may be controlled, including applying effects, by sending commands to Audacity over a named pipe. Typically you would do this from Python,...

sagetyrtle wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 23, 2019 7:17 pm

I'm using the Audient iD14 USB interface with Audacity.

and a microphone of some sort? 2 microphones? A Sure SM57 in the left channel and a Tachamine guitar with active pick-up in the right channel?
Too much detail is better than not enough - currently you have not given enough detail.

I can't quite figure out the naming convention in the data folder It's partially random. Attempting to piece together a 2 hour show will take forever. Audacity needs the project's ".aup" file. It's not optional. If there's no ".aup" file, then you don't have a recoverable projec...

Nyquist has a pair of first order Butterworth filters (high pass and low pass) that support a variable frequency corner. If you require a higher order filter, then the easiest way is to cascade these first order filters. The code is in the form: (hp <sound> <frequency>) or (lp <sound> <frequency>) f...

1) Set the "Project Rate" (lower left corner of the main Audacity window) to "8000". 2) "File menu > Export > Export Audio". 3) Select "Other uncompressed files" as the file type. 4) Select "WAV (Microsoft)" as the "Header". 5) Select "...

Please do post what you finally come up with. I expect it will be of interest to others.

sagetyrtle wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 23, 2019 10:40 am

Should this be a bug report?

By coincidence, this bug is currently being discussed on the developer's mailing list.
I don't yet have a workaround to suggest, but hopefully, now that the developers are discussing the problem, a fix will be found soon.

What noise floor level would likely drown out the dither? That depends on the kind of noise. White noise will drown out dither pretty quickly, but a low frequency "hum" type noise would probably never drown it out (dither would still be required to avoid quantization noise). As I hinted a...

Dither is used to mitigate "quantization noise". When converting to 24-bit, both quantization noise and dither noise are both at such a low level, that for practical (listening) purposes, it doesn't make any noticeable difference whether you dither or not. When converting to 16-bit, yes it...