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by steve
Mon Jul 19, 2010 4:39 pm
Forum: Feature Request Archive
Topic: Windows Soundflower??
Replies: 1
Views: 2964

Re: Windows Soundflower??

"Total Recorder" is the obvious, but non-free answer.
Other non-free answers include "Virtual Audio Cable" and "ReWire".

A free offering that I've recently come across but not yet tried: "VAcard" http://www.datanab.com/audio/VAcard.htm
by steve
Mon Jul 19, 2010 4:30 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: tiny waveform detected but playback is silent
Replies: 5
Views: 467

Re: tiny waveform detected but playback is silent

Are you using the large three pin XLR connectors on the back of the Lexicon Lambda and do you have "phantom power" switched on?
by steve
Mon Jul 19, 2010 4:27 pm
Forum: General Audio Programming
Topic: Default time/duration settings?
Replies: 8
Views: 2948

Re: Default time/duration settings?

I've moved this to the feature request section because as far as I'm aware Audacity has always done that, so my guess is that it is a "feature" rather than a "bug". I'll also add my vote to your suggestion: Generate menus to default to last used units (or the same units as the Se...
by steve
Mon Jul 19, 2010 4:18 pm
Forum: Maintaining / Improving this Forum
Topic: Non-Audacity Questions
Replies: 4
Views: 1913

Re: Non-Audacity Questions

i do see some audacity subforums on other boards with people struggling to solve the same problems with audacity that get asked here a lot and you all fix easily If you are signed up to said forums, the best thing to do in such cases is to direct them to the appropriate part of the documentation. W...
by steve
Mon Jul 19, 2010 4:03 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Recording levels in Win 7
Replies: 12
Views: 1723

Re: Recording levels in Win 7

It is indeed unfortunate, but I don't think there's really much that the Audacity developers can do about it. Audacity captures audio from the computer sound system, and as they say, junk in > junk out. With well behaved sound card drivers Audacity will have no problem at all, but if the sound drive...
by steve
Mon Jul 19, 2010 3:52 pm
Forum: General Feedback and Discussion
Topic: Which Audacity clean-up effects should be distortion-free?
Replies: 9
Views: 2792

Re: Which Audacity clean-up effects should be distortion-fre

Layman's terms: 32 bit float = accurate enough to be considered perfect (and fast processing). In theory I guess it should be better to get the original record level right, so there is only one cycle of rounding / dithering in the initial digitization; whereas effect > amplify imposes a second cycle...
by steve
Mon Jul 19, 2010 3:28 pm
Forum: Audio Processing
Topic: 1.2.6 noise removal superior to 1.3.6 ??
Replies: 56
Views: 20802

Re: 1.2.6 noise removal superior to 1.3.6 ??

Comparisons between the Audacity Noise Reduction effect and ReaFir are, I think, only relevant to a point. While they apply similar technologies, the design goals are somewhat different. ReaFir aims to be a versatile FFT/dynamics processing tool, whereas Audacity Noise Reduction aims to be a simple ...
by steve
Mon Jul 19, 2010 3:14 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Recovering file- I can't even find the "au" things
Replies: 16
Views: 1856

Re: Recovering file- I can't even find the "au" things

OK- When I hit Import Audio, I get: .... My files aren't there. So I have to use the black arrow thingy to see C: drive stuff: .... Eventually, it find them in my Temp folder here: ..... So I highlight them all & try to Open With: Stop! This is where it goes wrong. At this point you should high...
by steve
Mon Jul 19, 2010 7:06 am
Forum: Maintaining / Improving this Forum
Topic: Non-Audacity Questions
Replies: 4
Views: 1913

Re: Non-Audacity Questions

I think that's a good suggestion whomper. We do have some boards in the "All things Audio" section http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewforum.php?f=25 Posts in these sections may not be directly related to Audacity, so one of those boards would be an appropriate forum place for such a page (t...
by steve
Sun Jul 18, 2010 11:16 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Recovering file- I can't even find the "au" things
Replies: 16
Views: 1856

Re: Recovering file- I can't even find the "au" things

This is making less and less sense. :?

So you clicked on the "Look in" arrow, navigated to the folder where the .au files were, selected some of the .au files, clicked the "Open" button and it asked you which program to open them with?

Which version of Windows are you using?