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by steve
Fri Feb 19, 2021 4:38 pm
Forum: Making Music with Audacity
Topic: Quantification
Replies: 1
Views: 358

Re: Quantification

The word you are looking for is "quantization" (or "tempo quantization").
No, Audacity does not have that feature yet.
by steve
Fri Feb 19, 2021 3:40 pm
Forum: GNU/Linux
Topic: Start recording with script/macro?
Replies: 1
Views: 344

Re: Start recording with script/macro?

The hardest part is ensuring that the audio device(s) are set up correctly. I assume that you can set that up for her. After that it's just a matter of launching Audacity (you could create a Desktop shortcut), and then either click the Record button or press "R". "Spacebar" to st...
by steve
Fri Feb 19, 2021 2:34 pm
Forum: macOS
Topic: Noise floor too low
Replies: 6
Views: 181

Re: Noise floor too low

Duplicate topics merged.
by steve
Fri Feb 19, 2021 2:32 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Audacity cant recognize my microphone
Replies: 2
Views: 137

Re: Audacity cant recognize my microphone

Audacity can't see any audio devices connected to your computer. What audio devices do you have? (Please include any "virtual" devices)
Are you running any other audio apps (including any running in the background)?
by steve
Fri Feb 19, 2021 2:23 pm
Forum: macOS
Topic: Noise floor too low
Replies: 6
Views: 181

Re: Noise floor too low

Does anyone know how to raise the noise floor in an audio file without changing the peak and rms levels? That's the wrong question ;) The question we need to be asking is "how can my noise level be an implausibly low level"? One common reason is that the audio that you are analyzing conta...
by steve
Fri Feb 19, 2021 1:57 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: RMS Normalize
Replies: 2
Views: 103

Re: RMS Normalize

Update to Audacity 2.4.2 and use "Loudness Normalization" with "RMS" selected as the type of normalization (See: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/lou ... ation.html)

Audacity 2.4.2 is available via the Audacity website: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/
by steve
Fri Feb 19, 2021 12:37 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Align a Drum beat track to a click track
Replies: 6
Views: 194

Re: Align a Drum beat track to a click track

floatingboater wrote:
Thu Feb 18, 2021 11:42 am
it also cuts the same parts of the other tracks which i want untouched.
1. Ensure that "Sync Lock" is NOT enabled (bottom of "Tracks" menu).
2. Ensure that you ONLY select the track that you want to edit (See: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/aud ... ction.html)
by steve
Fri Feb 19, 2021 12:27 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Missing Project Section Bars
Replies: 7
Views: 191

Re: Missing Project Section Bars

The splits went after applying the Change Tempo effect to the entire project but returned after an Undo. I'm sure that didn't happen under v2.3.3. Is this to be expected or have I identified a bug? It was a bug. It has been fixed for the next Audacity release. Note that the problem does not occur i...
by steve
Fri Feb 19, 2021 12:16 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Error opening sound device
Replies: 1
Views: 75

Re: Error opening sound device

Audacity can't see any audio devices connected to your computer. What audio devices do you have? (Please include any "virtual" devices)
by steve
Fri Feb 19, 2021 10:09 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Compare the volume of two audio files
Replies: 5
Views: 196

Re: Compare the volume of two audio files

I want to test the performance of a hand-made microphone, so I recorded the same audio source with or without the microphone and got two files. Is there a way to compare the volume of two files so that I know the mic actually works? Ideally you would use an audio interface that has two identical mi...