Audacity Forum

phase information isn't visible in the waveform display. Or is it? Yes it is, but as you say, need to be a bit careful with terminology here. Deciding on what 0 degrees phase is, is somewhat arbitrary. For example, for a sawtooth wave, do we call the positive going zero crossing "0 degrees&quo...

Suppose a user imports an 8-bit file, mixes it with average 16/44.1 tracks and doesn't immediately see why it sounds not so good as all tracks are shown as being the same 32 bit settings. If the file could be played (previewed) within the file browser prior to import, then they would hear the quali...

And even here and now, you are using dB and not an amplification of ten times :mrgreen: That's what being a professional sound engineer does for you ;) Interestingly, linear units are used a great deal in digital signal processing. When I first started using Audacity I was also very critical of the...

I always change the Solo button behaviour to "Simple", disable the automatic Metadata pop-up, and increase the preview length.

cyrano wrote:Core Audio needed to adjust?

Sorry, I can't help with that (I don't see that issue on Linux). Perhaps worth raising that as a new topic on the Mac OS X board.

cyrano, you clearly prefer the Waveform (dB) view to the linear Waveform view. You know that you can set that as the default view? "Edit menu > Preferences > Tracks > Desfault view mode" We know that some users prefer some defaults over what other users prefer, That's why we have "pre...

Yes, I could, but what would be the point? It would illustrate that the so called "logarithmic" view does not accurately represent the log sample values. The other thing that cannot be represented with a logarithmic vertical scale is silence. http://www.rapidtables.com/math/algebra/logari...

Which of these would you call a "linear fade out"?

cyrano wrote: There isn't any sound engineer on the planet that thinks in linear percentages.

I agree. That's why I would like an option for a dB scale on the linear waveform view.
Most of our users are not sound engineers and come to Audacity with little idea of what "dB" means.

Every other editor shows a file that's normalized to -1 dB as filling the track windows almost completely. These don't look like log scale to me: http://img.brothersoft.com/screenshots/softimage/w/wavelab-72287-1.jpeg http://screenshots.en.sftcdn.net/en/scrn/6000/6765/sound-forge-audio-studio-6.jpg...

and "Sliding Time Scale / Pitch Shift" http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/sl ... shift.html