Audacity Forum

What I see is that if I wish to have this kind of linked compositng approach, I'd have to transition to using Ardour (possibly in combination with Audacity). I'm not really excited about learning Ardour (or getting Jack to work reliably on my system), but at least I understand something of what the...

The Sliding Time Scale / Pitch Shift effect gives better sound quality than the standard "Pitch Shift" effect: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/sl ... shift.html

a) I like the sound quality The sound quality of Audacity is no better and no worse than other players playing the same file on the same hardware. With a custom keyboard shortcut, I can use my pedal to move through each workspace. How does it do that? What sort of pedal are you using and what can i...

I'm with thor21344. After the first service is recorded, save the Audacity Project. At this point I would close and restart Audacity to ensure a clean start (probably not actually necessary, but it will avoid the possibility of accidentally overwriting the first recording). Then make the second reco...

Some sections of the voice track need resung, Before recording your voice the first time you should have imported the backing track (File > Import > Audio) Then record the vocal while listening to the imported track through your headphones. This will create a voice only track below the backing trac...

There is also this "brick-wall" type limiter that affects only the high peaks: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?p=150498#p150498 If you want to create maximum loudness, use a dynamic compressor first, then the brick-wall limiter. You will need to experiment on short samples to f...

It'd be great if that replay function is available like a DVR. Adds a whole lot of functionality imo. If you upgrade your operating system to Linux you could set up cron task to record a new file every 2 hours using arecord, SoX or another command line recorder, and set up a second task to delete o...

Leave the Windows setting as 2 channels.
Set Audacity to 1 channel (mono)
Use the left input on the device.

1) I make an Audacity project - the SOURCE 2) I make another Audacity project - the USER 3) I export rendered FLAC audio from the SOURCE project 4) I import the same FLAC audio into the USER file, being certain that I have set Audacity to NOT copy the data, but to use it in-place 5) I make some cha...

Try adding a little reverb http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/GVerb You may also need to apply some equalization http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/equalization.html The left/right position can be adjusted using the track "pan" control http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/audio_tracks.htm...