Audacity Forum

is that really necessary ? surey the keyboard music will be playing in the computor speakers ? That depends on the computer, the sound card, the sound card drivers and how it is set up. Most Windows XP machines could do that, but most modern Windows machines can't unless you use ASIO drivers or &qu...

If you are using Audacity 1.3.12 (highly recommended - check your Audacity version in "Help menu > About Audacity")
At the bottom of the Transport menu, select "Overdub" and De-select "Software Playthrough".

Are you able to test recording from Line-in using a different sound source (for example a CD player)?

Which version of Audacity are you using (Help menu > About Audacity)
What Operating System are you using?
Are you listening through headphones or speakers?
What sort of microphone are you using?

Do you have write permissions for the location that you are attempting to save/export to?

I would certainly recommend that you upgrade to Audacity 1.3.12 (There has been no development work or bug fixes to Audacity 1.2 for years, and Audacity 1.3.12 is a much better program). Re. the actual problem, for most effects and tools; Audacity must be "Stopped" (not playing, recording ...

Effect menu > Truncate Silence. You cannot completely remove a silence with this tool, but you can truncate it down to 1 millisecond (0.001 second) If the silences are long, you may need to run the tool several times. The maximum "Silence Compression" is 20:1 The minimum "Min Silence ...

Audacity is designed for high quality audio processing. It requires uncompressed audio, so when you import an M4B file, Audacity will copy the file into a high quality uncompressed audio format that it is able to use. 13 hours is an enormously large file and when copied to the high quality format re...

If you are recording in a reasonably quiet room you could use the "Sound Activated Recording" function in Audacity 1.3.12 (see the bottom of this page http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Transport_Menu ) Alternatively, to use "hotkeys" with Audacity, Audacity must have focus, so t...

coupled with 'keylock' Not sure what you mean with that term - could you explain? I was wondering if i could ask you on how you increase RMS in a piece without clipping? The work-flow that I use is as follows: First, a couple of changes to Audacity Preferences: "Edit menu > Preferences > Playb...