Audacity Forum

If the Audacity project is still open you can "Undo" previous actions - Select "Undo" from the Edit menu or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Z

Audacity 1.2.6 is obsolete. I would recommend uninstalling it and upgrading to the current Audacity 2.0.2 which you can get here: http://audacityteam.org/download/ You should be able to get reasonable quality through the USB connection. You may find this article useful for achieving better quality: ...

I'm finding the configuration of effects like reverb problematic as I'm used to setting them up in real time. Yes that can be tricky. I find it especially tricky for effects such as Eq, compression, reverb etc. Most of the effects have "Preview" button, which is some help. Because of the ...

By the way, I agree that the "Waveform (dB)" view is "unconventional" and personally I don't think that it is very useful. I would much prefer to see a conventional log scaled dB view with number on both the positive and negative sides of the waveform.

steve wrote:The "discontinuity" that you can see is because with your preference setting, audio below -36 dB is not shown.

You can set the dB range in Preferences: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/in ... ences.html

as a pro sound engineer, i like to see everything in 'dB's' So do I, but most Audacity users are not pro sound engineers and the original creator of Audacity thought it was more user friendly to display a default scale of +/- 1. It has been that way ever since. As a pro sound engineer you should ha...

Audacity can record, edit and produce the audio, but as with cell-phone ring tones, the usual difficulty is not that part, but converting the audio into the format required by the device and persuading the device to accept the audio. We can help with the audio part, but for the rest you would probab...

The waveforms look strange (the sine tones being flattened and appearing to have a discontinuity at the centre line) because of your track display settings. If you switch the track display setting back to "Waveform" (rather than "Waveform (dB)" I expect that they will look normal...

Shaky wrote:Can you see anything in the Xonar’s specs that might suggest where things are going wrong?

The specs are very good.
What is your set-up and what settings are you using?

See here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/FAQ: ... hancements