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>>which means that the two low pass and 4 high pass stages are cascaded - the order is unimportant. Hmm. I would have thought the order was important because if I started with passing 737.9, would I implicitly attenuate lower frequencies? Perhaps I can explain that more clearly... We are using two ...

Topic moved to Windows forum. Any thoughts? Perhaps your anti-virus / security products are scanning Audacity before allowing it to launch. If that's the case, then you could manually scan it (for safety) and then white-list it. Another possibility is that there are plug-ins installed on your machin...

The damage looks more like data corruption to me. tracks000.png See in this close-up how there are places (which I've marked with labels) where the waveform is discontinuous and jumps instantly from one level to another. In the analog realm, nothing changes "instantly", so these glitches a...

Is there anything I can do to save that audio? The audio is very badly damaged. In my opinion, it's beyond rescue. It's difficult to say what caused the problem - it could have been due to something as simple as a bit of contamination on the USB plug, or one of many other possibilities. If it is a ...

when I last used Audacity some years ago I remember the cursor stayed centered and didn't move while the blue waveform moved behind it. You remember incorrectly, because until fairly recently it was not possible to do that with Audacity. However, in the current 2.1.3 version it is possible, and it ...

What are the exact and full names of the files that won't play?

I tried to import my music, but it didn't work. What exactly does "didn't work" mean? What happened? So I redownloaded the import/export What does that mean? So I redownloaded Audacity, that did work. What does that mean? Do you mean that it didn't download? Now when I import the audio Wh...

The release manager pulled the Windows beta (I'm not sure why), but there is a later beta build in the "Nightlies". Scroll down this page to the "Nightlies" section (and read all of the disclaimers / cautions about pre-release builds): https://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/

There's also this "Tannoy" effect which may be suitable with appropriate settings: viewtopic.php?p=325922#p325922
(Requires Audacity 2.1.3 or later)

When you select (in the device toolbar ) a specific named device that has a "(hw:..)" suffix, you are telling Audacity to access the device directly via its ALSA drivers, bypassing PulseAudio. Generally this is the preferred option for Audacity, but there is a limitation: For most hardware...