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I see a series of diagonal blue lines, which makes editing much more difficult, if not near-impossible to get right. The diagonal lines are normal when importing uncompressed audio with "read the files directly from the original" selected, but after a few moments those lines should start ...

Strangely enough, Crossfade-In and Crossfade-Out use two different approaches to get the exact same curves with a exponent of 0.5 "Cross Fade In" was updated after release (by myself) to fix a bug. The original version was like "Cross Fade Out", but on a fade-in that gives a 1 s...

Audacity works with audio, it does not do video.

As I said I did read the FAQ piece about USB device Not wanting to be picky, but you didn't say that. You didn't mention that you were using a USB device. I assume from your reply that you are do have a USB audio device plugged in. Is that correct? If so, what sort of USB device is it? Is audio res...

Edgar wrote:What I am looking for is a nonlinear slow ramp whose change accelerates rapidly toward the end.

You mean this sort of thing?

Topic split to: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 66#p197266

I've split this topic because it raises an interesting point, but unrelated to the original topic. Consider running this code from the Nyquist Prompt or as an effect plug-in on multiple tracks: (setq test (peak s ny:all)) (if (> test 0) (format nil "sound") (format t "silence")) ...

OK, so we know that it's not Audacity causing the problem.
Go into the Windows Sound Control Panel and turn off "Listen to this device".

If Audacity is recording what appears to be a flat line, try using the Amplify effect (default settings). If that enables you to hear what you have recorded (albeit that there will probably be a lot of noise and bad sound quality) then you need to adjust the levels in Windows. The recording level fr...

I'm not quite sure what you are saying.
After a reboot, when do you get an error message that audacity is already running, and what exactly does the error message say?