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My problem is that I can see the spike in DB Waveform, but when prompted to edit in amplitude wf mode I am neither able to discern nor smooth it out with the draw tool. Please help! "dB" is a "logarithmic" scale that massively exaggerates low level signals. The reason that the &...

Restart Audacity, then in the Device Toolbar (http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/device_toolbar.html#playback) set the playback device as the Blue Yeti (may just be listed as "USB"). If the available devices change for any reason (such as enabling / disabling / attaching / removing), the...

but now I cannot re-open them again. Do you mean that you can't "vertically resize" them? There are two way to reduce the vertical height of a track, "resizing" and "collapsing". "Resizing" can be done by clicking and dragging the bottom edge of the track, or...

Suntan77 wrote: tried setting up in audacity for playback

How exactly are you doing that? (we can't see your setup so you need to describe everything)

If I then stop Audacious and play a midi file (using aplaymidi - p 17:0), I hear it fine, but Pavucontrol now shows no signal aplaymidi - p 17:0 sends the MIDI data to the MIDI synthesizer hardware of your SoundBlaster card which plays back directly from the hardware. That has nothing to do with Pu...

The way that I record audio playing on the computer is to use the Pulse "monitor" device as described here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tutorial_recording_computer_playback_on_linux.html For that to work, the audio that is playing must be using PulseAudio for playback. For applica...

Audacity saves the audio data in a temporary folder, or at least, tries to. If Audacity is unable to write the data there, then the data will disappear as you describe. Look in "Edit > Preferences > Directories" and check where the "temp" folder is. Is that a location that is wri...

Have a read through these tutorials: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tutorial_copying_tapes_lps_or_minidiscs_to_cd.html In particular, this one: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/splitting_a_recording_into_separate_tracks.html (but I'd recommend to have at least a skim through the others as ...

Turn off "Software Playthrough" (near the bottom of the "Transport" menu).

There are some articles here about how to make "overdub" recordings: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tu ... rdubs.html

You have accidentally enabled "Sound Activated Recording". Look near the bottom of the "Transport" menu and turn it off (deselect it). By the way, it's a bad idea to post your e-mail address on public forums as there are frequent "robots" that search websites for e-mail...