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Anything is possible, but what is your specific use case? What are you trying to do?

Note also that in the manual (which I have RTFM'd) under Macros there doesn't seem to be an entry for Generate Silence under the Generate commands. Is that deliberate? Does that imply one can't use macros to generate silence? Or is it s documentation oversight? The documentation for macros is gener...

duncanphilpstate wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 13, 2018 3:10 pm

Trying to use a macro to add 6 seconds of generated silence at end of track.

But I don't know how non found a plug-in for it I don't know of any plug-ins for it either, but there some information about 3-D sound on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_audio_effect A much simpler way to create a 3-D recording for personal use, is to record 4 audio channels with 4 micr...

Al Stu wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 12, 2018 6:02 pm

How about an edit/effects track to apply edits and effects non destructively?

Reaper https://www.reaper.fm/
Ardour: https://ardour.org/
GarageBand (included with macOS)

It's a question of picking the right tool for the job.

kozikowski wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 12, 2018 5:43 pm

a distinctive voice is marketable.

Plenty of examples of that: Sean Connery, Richard Burton, Fenella Fielding, Michael Caine,...

You want non-lossy and zero compression. 16-bit works well enough. except that momstro specifically said that their client needs WAV files at 44.1, 24bit. Given that it is easy with Audacity to give the client what they are asking for (as described in my previous post), then I see little reason to ...

Al Stu wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 12, 2018 5:53 pm

What about once a session has been closed

When the project is closed, the history is erased so as to reduce the size of the project (for large projects this can be many GB).

If you can tell me exactly which version of Calf plug-ins, then I can test here as well.

About 3 seconds when launched from start menu. OK, so the problem is not launching Audacity per se, but slowness opening projects. We have received several other reports of Audacity taking a long time to open projects, and the developers are already looking into this to try to find the cause and a ...