Audacity Forum

Most functions require playback and recording to be "stopped" (not just "paused"). Try clicking to Stop button.

See: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/timer_record.html

If you set Audacity to record sounds playing on your computer, then it records ALL sounds that are playing on your computer through the specified audio device. There is no option to exclude "some sounds" other than turning them off so that they are not playing through the audio device that...

You question is too vague.
Do you have a recording of sonar?
What are you wanting to measure?

tader wrote:every time i have imported it, it's nothing but white noise

What should it be?

If you have multiple versions of Audacity on your computer it is generally best to make them "portable" - that is, make each version self-contained with their own preferences. This way you remove the risk of incompatible preferences in one version affecting another version. It is simple to...

There is an alternative approach The alternative approach is to use either a high or low pass filter for one of the tracks (half of the crossover), and the inverse of that filter (1 - filtered audio) for the other track. Doing it this way ensures that the sum of the two halves is equal to the whole...

I'll stick with duplicating the track and putting one through a low-pass and the other, high-pass at the same setting. It would be better to make a matched pair of filters using the Equalization effect. The High Pass and Low Pass filters are Butterworth style filters, so the phase response is non-l...

I don't think that it can be used in Audacity.
In Audacity, there are always the same number of output channels as input channels, whereas that plug-in is splitting each input channel into 4 output channels.

geordiemick wrote:How do you think I'l do on "Britain's Got No Talent"

Honestly - not a chance. I've heard acts that make your recording sound like a Grammy winner.