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One or more stereo tracks must be selected for the "Stereo Track To Mono tool" to be enabled.

Do you get a flat horizontal blue line across the track (like the first track below) or a squiggly waveform (like the second track)?

You may do better with specialist software for this job. Try Googling "wav to midi freeware" or something similar.

Topic moved to the appropriate part of the forum. Could you fill in some details. What are yor recording from, what sort of sound card, how are your headphones connected, what settings do you have in "Edit menu > Preferences > Devices" and "Edit menu > Preferences > Quality", hav...

One other thing, do you have the latest drivers installed? (do you know what I mean?)

Set the default sample rate to 44100 Hz. Disconnect from the Internet. Shut down all non-essential programs and applications, including any anti-virus and firewall programs (remember to restart them after this test). Check in the Task Manager to see if there are any programs running in the backgroun...

If you're using Audacity 1.2, upgrade to Audacity 1.3
You can get it here: http://audacityteam.org/download/

PHONEMAN wrote:when I speak into my mic, the wave form jumps,

That's the bit that I don't understand. Are talking about the VU Meters?
See here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php? ... ing_levels

any value between -70 & -63 inclusive compiles but any value -62 and greater (-61, -60 etc.) fails to compile: How very peculiar. It's not really a big deal if those ranges go a little lower, it just means that the defaults are a bit more subtle. I was aiming for a default level in the region o...

What sort of computer are you using?
What settings do you have in "Edit menu > Preferences > Quality"?