Audacity Forum

Monte wrote:I had this idea that it would be fairly simple and straightforward, as both mics would be coming through one channel...but you're saying that's incorrect?

Yes, I'm saying that is incorrect. Each device connected to a USB port is uniquely identified and seen by the computer as a separate device.

The first two of those commands are not currently available for Chains.

The next version of Audacity will have more commands available, and "Chain" will be renamed "Macro".

I would like to get an USB splitter to run both mics from one USB port on my laptop. Question is, will this impact sound quality? If so, will it be significant? With Audacity it will be very significant - it won't work. Audacity can only record fro one device at a time. To record from two microphon...

raldone01 wrote:But why is there a difference?

Because Audacity's generated waveform is more accurate.
Your sample values appear to be accurate to about 2 decimal places (8-bit?), whereas Audacity's samples are accurate to more than 10 decimal places (32-bit float).

Is "float" better than "signed" and "unsigned"? Any advantage and disadvantage for each? 32-bit float is good for audio processing. The "range" of values that can be represented in float format is far greater than the range for integer formats with the same n...

SaxBlaCussionIzer wrote:f you could explain a little more in-depth, i would certainly appreciate that!

Could you describe what "the job" is. What are you trying to do? What are you recording and why do you need lots of "bits"?

So either I export a WAV 32-bit from File>Export as WAV I presume that you mean "WAV 32-bit float "... "Signed", "Unsigned" and "Float" are all different. It gets a bit technical, but basically these terms refer to how the binary data is stored: "Signed&...

The "full" name for a 32-bit float WAV file is: WAV (Microsoft) 32-bit float PCM. "WAV (Microsoft)" refers to the file header. "32-bit float PCM" refers to the encoding. This is an abbreviation of: "IEEE 754 single-precision binary floating-point format: binary32, ...

There's a size limit of 4 GB for WAV format. Beyond 4 GB it is not possible for the file header to correctly address the data, so it becomes corrupted. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAV#Limitations). For larger files you will need to use a different format (such as FLAC).

You can create a "Chain" of effects: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/cha ... ation.html

(In the next version of Audacity, "Chain" will be renamed as "Macro")