Audacity Forum

You can also generate custom sounds using Nyquist . For example, this will create a sound that contains the frequencies 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900, 1000 Hz: ;version 4 ;type generate (setf f1 400) (setf step 100) (setf duration 6.0) ;duration in seconds (let ((output (s-rest duration)) tone) (doti...

Good to hear. Thanks for the update.

If you figure out what made the difference, please post an update - it could be helpful for anyone else having similar problems with VAC.

The "loopback" is a special feature of WASAPI. It takes the sound card's output and uses it (loops it back) to the sound card's input. " WASAPI " is one of the sound systems offered by recent versions of Windows (Vista and later). "Stereo Mix" is a similar feature avail...

There was a thought experiment a while ago which posited that in any one segment, the ends of the six second snippets should be close to each other and the tiny sections of the blue waves should meet or move in rational directions. Another thought experiment is to take a big bag full of sentences a...

I'm concerned as I need to quantify the loudness to a governing officiating referee, and I'm sure it will look odd to them as well. You're not alone - a lot of people have trouble with this. The problem is that there is no direct comparison between signal level and "loudness" - even if it...

The simplest (though not necessarily "best") way to do what you want (note that this requires a lot of free disk space, and if it's a long book then you may find that Audacity becomes a bit sluggish): 1. Launch Audacity 2.4.2 2. "File menu > Import > Audio" and import all of the ...

soulstenance wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 11, 2020 8:21 pm

What still baffles me is that the issue only crops up when Audacity gets involved.

Do you use any other recording apps?

i have two or more contiguous clips on a track and want to delete them all. Click on the split line that divides the clips and they will become one clip. You can then double click on the (one) clip to select it. (If you are using Macros, you can select across the split line and then use the "J...

Do you use the HDMI audio at all?
There's weird stuff going on with your computer sound system and I'm trying to think of how we can persuade it to behave itself

RBlakley wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 11, 2020 7:05 pm

That is what my Audacity looked like on Windows 10.

Was that before a driver update? If so, perhaps you can roll back the driver to the previous version.