Audacity Forum

In the Transport menu, turn of "Software Playthrough" and turn on "Overdub". "Software Playthrough" should not be used when recording with a microphone because it creates a delay (echo).

Interesting - on Linux an & in the name does not show up as a character, but underlines the next character.
test&1.aup shows as test1.aup

I think Audacity as shipped can read/write FLAC format without having to add ffmpeg libraries. Yes it can. Audacity also supports "Ogg Vorbis" which is a "lossy" format with similar compression capability to MP3, but without some of the design limitations and is free ( MP3 is re...

Trebor wrote:Is that "pre-filtered" via equalization (without changing the sample rate)

Yes.

See "System Requirements" on the download page.

We can remove DC without filtering: (defun remove-dc (sig) (diff sig (calc-dc sig))) ;;; calculate dc offset (defun calc-dc (sig) (sref (sound (mult (integrate sig) (/ (get-duration 1)))) (/ (1- len) *sound-srate*))) (remove-dc s) To limit the upper frequency range we can make use of the Nyquist–Sha...

You have probably not installed Audacity correctly.
Carefully follow the installation instructions for installing the .dmg file here: http://audacityteam.org/download/mac

Is it on-line manuals that you don't like, or the html format?
The complete manual is includes in the Mac OS X .dmg installer, but it is in html format.

There are also some books available (real paper) http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Books_about_Audacity

Check the recoding levels in alsamixer
(open a terminal window and type alsamixer)
You will probably need to change the alsamixer sound card selection (F6 key) to get to the USB device - then check if you can turn up the capture level.

abs-env evaluates the argument in the default environment. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rbd/doc/nyquist/part8.html#index550 I'll give an example to demonstrate: If you select a section of a track and then apply the following code in the Nyquist Prompt effect: (noise 2) It will generate noise that is twic...