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doubleO7 wrote:here is a little video that might clarify a few things about the behaviour of digital audio signals including dither.

Thanks Christian - excellent video.

do i need to reduce the db's of my sample prior to using the wah wah? Yes. If you got clipping on the timeline, then you should be able to just Effect > Amplify and bring the show back down out of clipping. Audacity uses 32-bit floating format which allows that. Unfortunately that is not quite the ...

Audacity has no control over what other software developers choose to do. A Google search came up with this: The AUP file type is primarily associated with 'Audacity'. Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux,...

So what you need is a user-settable option for either linear or logarithmic. And would that be a per-project setting or an overall Audacity setting? Ideally I'd like the option to be per control point. This would allow the user to apply useful fade shapes non-destructively and could be a useful ste...

A microphone produces a very tiny signal, therefore a microphone input is very sensitive so that it can pick up these tiny signals. A headphone output is a relatively huge signal (hundreds of times more powerful than a microphone signal. To avoid distortion into a microphone input from a headphone o...

sykie wrote:but could not record from online radio.

Please see this tutorial in the manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tu ... puter.html

Topic split. Please do not add new questions on the end of unrelated topics. I would have given your topic a relevant topic title, but I don't understand what you are asking. Also, please use code tags around any included code - it makes it easier to read and preserves the code layout. If you click ...

steve wrote:Do we also want the NumPad UP/Down to do the same?

Scratch that suggestion.
NumPad UP/Down does not work on here whether in a label track or any other type of track.

Call me fussy but I'd like to be able to assign keys so that I can do most of my work with fewest keystrokes and the left hand only on the keys and the right never leaving the mouse: In which case, Shift+Mouse Click is available? We need to balance the needs of all users, (including VI users that c...

And another duplicate topic merged with this one
I have deleted your duplicate topic.

Try instructions here http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Relea ... ram_Launch (where it says "VST/Audio Units Plug-ins")