Audacity Forum

Scroll left/right: left/right cursor keys Small jump left/rght; comma/dot keys. Big jump left/right: Shift+comma/Shift+dot Go to end: "End" key Go to start: "Home" key Also, if you have a wheel mouse Ctrl+Mouse wheel = Zoom Shift+Mouse Wheel = scroll See here for the shortcut ref...

"Nyquist" is a programming language that has been incorporated into Audacity. When Nyquist is used as an effect, either via the "Nyquist Prompt" effect, or with a Nyquist Plug-in, audio data is passed by Audacity from the audio track to Nyquist. It is then processed by Nyquist an...

Near the bottom of the main Audacity window, de-select (un-tick) the "Snap to:" setting.

See here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Apply_Chain

I think it would be useful if the manual had links between these two pages (as they are so closely related), so I'll see if I can add them.

Gale Andrews has noticed an issue with Regular Interval Labels: If you choose "number of labels" for label placement method and "include final label", the labels are spread out along greater than the selected length. For example, with a 30 seconds mono tone, 10 labels and includi...

And the noise is far from tiny with classical music, especially when played back on a high-quality audio system. Dither noise is tiny, even with Classical music on a high-quality audio system. Every professional sound studio in the world uses the technique of dithering the final output. If the nois...

Then I believe I need to install Audacity v1.2.6 to capture the calls to some file type. Install Audacity 1.3.13. Audacity 1.2. is now very old and is known to have problems on modern computers that will not be fixed because there is no current development on the 1.2.x series. The 1.3 version is a ...

I'm not seeing a crash here. Did you build Audacity from the source code? Which exact version of Audacity are you using? (For example, "Audacity ® 1.3.14-alpha-Apr 21 2011 (Unicode), Release Build" - You may need to look at the bottom of the "Build Information" tab for the build ...

Turn off "Software Playthrough" (near the bottom of the "Transport" menu).

The "Beat Finder" in Audacity is simply to mark (with labels) where (strong) beats appear in the track - basically it just marks the highest peaks. It does not tell you the BPM of the track. If you just want to practice it slower, why don't you just slow it down a bit? Why do you need it t...