Audacity Forum

When WASAPI is selected as the "host" in the device toolbar , applications connect tightly to the device drivers. This usually has benefits of low latency (not important for Audacity), and for multi-channel sound cards it often allows multi-channel recording without the need for ASIO (whic...

I was refereeing the OPs request to record with several inputs at the same time. and now you appear to be asking an unrelated question, so better that we have a new topic. We find it gets very confusing if we don't stick to one topic per question/subject. I am running the latest version Which versi...

To each other, but not to your partner's song which started at the "real" zero and not zero plus the silent insert. The common use case is that the Audacity project IS the song and the purpose of the exercise was to open the "project" in a third party DAW. Also, standard practic...

You can set the Project Rate to 2000000 Hz by typing into the box in the lower left corner of the main Audacity window. Don't expect your sound card to work at 2 MHz.

drad dog wrote:Can it make the tracks into files for the output?

Yes you can export each labelled section as a separate WAV file with "Export Multiple". See my previous post for details.

drad dog wrote:Does waveform lose information on processing?

Not if you export as WAV.

Here is what the same .WAV looks like in the audio editor Edison. It very clearly shows the sudden jump from 1 to 0 then back to 1. I don't know the program "Edison", but are you sure that is what it is showing? It looks to me to be a similar thing to Audacity's "clipping" indic...

As far as I know, Audacity is a single track recorder and only will allow one input at a time. Audacity can record multiple "tracks" at the same time, but only from a single "device". If a device has multiple channels and the device driver presents that to applications as one mu...

Try the Bass and Treble effect with settings similar to this: fullwindow-Bass and Treble-000.png Note that after tweaking the settings to get the sound that you like, it is then necessary to "Apply" the effect, then "Close" the effect. For more information about this effect, see:...

Is it possible I activated a setting somehow? I reinstalled it twice, reset options during the installation, but it still does does not play back. If you had accidentally changed a setting in Audacity, then "Reset Preferences" during (re-)installation would put the setting back to the fac...

Encoding as MP3 loses information. Most editors need to decode MP3s before they can be edited, so if you edit an MP3, then save or export as MP3, the audio has to be encoded again, which loses some sound quality. The lost quality cannot be recovered. MP3directCut and MP3split are unusual in that the...