Audacity Forum

So the problem now is not the message "another copy of Audacity is running", but that Audacity takes a long time to launch? Is that correct? Before Audacity opens it needs to scan the sound system to find what audio devices are available. For some reason this tends to be quite slow on Ubun...

You just have to remember to select "Length" rather than "End", otherwise you loose the selection as soon as you start typing, which is really annoying.

And there's you a six-person choi Though unfortunately quite distorted. To avoid the distortion, assuming that Audacity is set to the default 32 bit float format, select all of the tracks and from the Tracks menu choose "Mix and Render". This will mix all of the tracks down to one track, ...

christos carras wrote:is there anyway to continuously monitor the filters effect on the audio, without being restricted to the preview, which only allows a very short time?

No, but you can increase the length of the preview.
"Edit > Preferences > Playback > Length of Preview"

Actually you can move the selection from the Selection Toolbar http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/se ... olbar.html
Select the "Length" radio button, then type the required start time into the "Selection Start" box.

I was wondering Is it possible to move (or set a new selection) with Nyquist. Unfortunately no, though I'd very much like this to be possible in a future version. The way that Nyquist in Audacity currently works is that, for "process" and "analyze" type plug-ins, Audacity passes...

Which Linux distribution?
Which version of Audacity? (look in "Help > About Audacity")
How did you install Audacity?

What were the exact settings that you used in Vocal Remover?
Were you applying it to a stereo track?
Was there an error message before the debug screen?

What settings are available in the device toolbar and which settings are selected?
When you say there is no sound, do you mean that it is producing a flat line recording on the second track?

Which Linux distribution are you using?
Which version of Audacity? (look in "Help > About Audacity")
How did you install Audacity?

I will check that and give feedback. Please do. I don't have an SPL meter so it will be interesting to see how good or bad the correlation is. The real "fun" part will be in comparing like with like. There is information about different types of SPL measurement here: http://en.wikipedia.o...