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I have a sample This sample is used in a song I want to remove this sample from the song I would like to know if it is possible to place the sample at the same time as the music and subtract the sample from the music. Yes that is possible, but for complete removal you need to match the samples exac...

FoixProductions wrote:XENYX X2014 USB

Do you mean "XENYX X1204USB" :
"Built-in stereo USB/Audio Interface"

Britinlincoln wrote:do I somehow "import" the backing track

Yes, I've already said that.
"File menu > Import > Audio"
See: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/file_menu.html

Gale Andrews wrote:This downconversion will apply dither noise, unless you turned that off in "High-quality conversion" in Quality Preferences.

and if you turn off "dither" in preferences, then you will get "quantization noise" due to rounding down to 16-bit.

Gale Andrews wrote: I think someone (tried to) modify Clipfix to do this, some years ago.

That was me It was one of my first attempts to modify a Nyquist plug-in.
See: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 433#p31433

Trebor wrote:Audacity's noise reduction can be used as an expander, see ... viewtopic.php?p=313265#p313265

Unfortunately that does not work so well with the current version of Noise Reduction as the old version, so it's not likely to help very much.

Topics merged and duplicate post deleted.

You've not given us much to go on, but my guess is that whatever it is that you are recording is probably too quiet, so that when it is normalized it is amplified a lot, and so causing the background hiss to become excessively loud. The solution would be to increase the signal level of the thing tha...

Overdub recording is a big subject, but the general principles are the same for vocal as for guitar as for sax as for any other instrument. There's several tutorials here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tutorial_recording_multi_track_overdubs.html Start by importing your backing track into Audac...

Is there a way that I can duplicate this workflow with Audacity? If not now, how difficult would it be to implement in a future version. Only one Audacity instance can record (or play) at one time. My guess is that it would be very difficult to change that. What you can do is to make one recording ...