Audacity Forum

Pressing record automatically adds tracks every time you press record! Plain and simple. Yes, pressing record starts a new track. That's supposed to happen. Pressing record does not start 8 new tracks unless you are recording 8 tracks at a time. If you are recording "1 channel (mono)" the...

No.

Both the sound that you wish to process and the impulse response should be mono sounds. The impulse response should be very short. Let's say that you have an impulse that is exactly 100 samples long. You can then copy the impulse response to the start of the track that you wish to convolve, then app...

To make the feature generic, I guess I would want to be able to select an arbitrary number of tracks (with some practical limit) and say, "Hey Audacity gods, display me a window that shows these selected tracks below me on the screen at a zoom factor that is (set variable number here) less tha...

How would your proposal work with a multi-track project?
If I have a project with, say, 14 tracks, what would I see in the "Context window" and how much screen space would it occupy?

nopeda wrote:Can anyone suggest some good youtube videos or any other good sources that clearly explain how to use some of the other features?

The one that we know is accurate and up to date is ... the manual (http://manual.audacityteam.org/)
(also available via the Help menu in Audacity).

Yes it does, and easy to mess up too, so ensure you've got a good backup of the whole thing.
Tip for the future: Split the recording into manageable size sections sooner

If you rename them as:
001
002
003
...
101
102
....
then they will be in alphanumeric order.

It's a bit laborious but yes you can do it:

1) Select the first labelled region.
2) Ctrl+shift+K to ensure that the selection is in all tracks
3) Ctrl+T to trim to the selection
4) File menu > Save Project As (give it a unique name)
5) Ctrl+Z to Undo the trim
Repeat these steps for each section.

There is a simple proof. With Audacity's Default Sample Format set to 32-bit float, set the "Files of type" filter in the import window as "MP3 Files", and the MP3 imports as 32-bit float. Set the filter to "FFmpeg-compatible files" and the MP3 imports as 16-bit. That ...