Audacity Forum

It looks like Audacity isn't installed properly. That's likely to be due to one of two reasons: either you've not installed it properly, or Gatekeeper has stopped it from being installed properly. I think best we take this a step at a time so that we fix it the right way. Firstly, let's check whethe...

Does this only occur when the track spectrogram view is selected?

Select "New" (top right), then scroll down to the lower case effect names.

without a reference-tone Without a reference, most people would not know if an instrument was tuned within half an octave of "standard" tuning. On the other hand, if I'm playing an instrument along with a backing track, then a 1 cent difference in tuning sounds clearly "out of tune&q...

Trebor wrote: wikipedia wrote:
Frequency resolution of the ear is 3.6 Hz within the octave of 1000 – 2000 Hz.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoacoust ... perception

but the difference between 440 Hz and 444 Hz is a much larger ratio, and very noticeable.

There's a plug-in available here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Nyquist_Effect_Plug-ins#Trim_Silence Note that the plug-in has to load the entire track into RAM, so it is not suitable for very long tracks. Assuming a sample rate of 44100 Hz, it should be OK with tracks up to about 45 minutes. Se...

Which version of Audacity? (look in "Help > About Audacity")

audacity novice wrote:The transposing tools work by addition.

No.
Effect > Change Pitch works by multiplication.

kozikowski wrote:Walk into the show just before the performance and clap loudly once. Theory has it we should be able to subtract the room from the show.

Yes, I think John got that to work once..... (> cow pasture)

The only way that you will hear them on small speakers is to ensure that they also contain higher frequency sounds. People often don't realise that when they hear a double bass on TV, they often can't hear the actual "notes" (the "fundamental frequencies") that are being played. ...