Audacity Forum

No necessarily to make it synchronized with music.. like in Karaoke Audacity can do that, but I suspect that it will be too fiddly for your needs. You can enter lyrics as "Labels", with one word per label, and then the "Karaoke view" will scroll the lyrics with a bouncing ball l...

Why do you need to mix them into one track rather than working on a multi-track project?
If you just miss out the mixdown step, then you can "Export Multiple" based on tracks and use the track names.

Audacity is only able to record from one "device" at a time. If the RodeCaster Pro appears in the macOS sound settings as a multi-channel device, then Audacity should be able to access all of the channels available for that device. If the RodeCaster Pro appears in the macOS sound settings ...

samboo wrote: ↑

Thu May 02, 2019 9:48 pm

but I get no volume at all thru speakers

Ensure that your speakers are selected as the playback device in the device toolbar.

Unfortunately I think the show will be unrecoverable. I would recommend that you update Audacity to the current version, as the developers are continually making improvements to make Audacity more robust. The current version is 2.3.1 and is available via the Audacity website: https://www.audacitytea...

I would like to know if I can highlight or isolate instrument parts on Audacity. Usually "no". Instrument sounds usually have a complex mixture of frequencies that overlap the frequencies of other instruments. Audacity can "hear" frequencies and amplitudes, but has no idea whats...

Thu May 09, 2019 1:34 am Could it be related to the audio interface disconnecting while the Mac sleeps? Yes it could. but it shouldn't cause Audacity to crash. If Audacity (or more specifically, "Portaudio") can't communicate with the device, it should throw an error, not crash. You would...

Audacity "should" work with multiple projects open at the same time, but generally, if you find that you often need multiple projects open, that's often a sign that you're not approaching the task the best way. It's pretty rare for it to be "necessary" to have multiple projects o...

Super Thanks for the update.

shaker2 wrote: ↑

Thu May 09, 2019 10:03 am

I have ordered the ESI 24 XL because it has two coax outputs

Are you sure that it has two coax outputs? The ESI website appears to say it has one coax and one optical https://www.esi-audio.com/products/u24xl/