Audacity Forum

I am not getting waveforms at all. :?: I thought you said it was working? perhaps it is just so quiet that you cannot see the waveform? Try this (just to test). When you have a recording, use the Amplify effect from the Effects menu. (Use the default settings) If there is anything recorded it shoul...

During the process it wouldn't let me direct the download to the 'Programs' file; I don't know what you mean. 1) Download audacity the Audacity 1.3.11 installer to your Desktop 2) You should now have the file "audacity-win-unicode-1.3.11.exe" on your Desktop 3) Run the file as Administrat...

The PulseAudio Volume Control is probably listed in Synaptic as "pavucontrol" and Audacity ® 1.3.9 (Unicode) The latest 1.3.x version is now available for Karmic - this is the "daily" build (very latest code), which normally would not be recommended for general use, but at the pr...

Everything is turned all the way up there. Anything else? Use Audacity 1.3.11 Guess I'll have to go with another program, if not! Have a go with Windows Sound Recorder. While it is a very limited recording program it is useful for testing the sound system and may help to narrow down the source of t...

blubblub wrote:Control Panel --> Smart Audio (I presume this is to do with my soundcard rather than a general windows thing)

Yes that's a custom sound card thing - there are hundreds of variations on this theme making it one of our biggest headaches on the forum.

I can see what you are wanting to do, but i doubt that it will work. I presume that your karaoke software is displaying the words as well as playing the music? The main problem that you will have is that both programs are trying to stream a lot of data through the system at the same time. People gen...

That is a problem, but it's not one channel of a stereo pair. It is a mono track, but the signal is shifted vertically (by a long way). This is called "DC Off-set" and that is an extremely bad case of DC Off-set. The problem is usually (but not always) caused by a faulty sound card. Tell u...

It seems pretty magical to me - just that occasionally the magic doesn't work.

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(Windows Mac and Linux)