Audacity Forum

the first three seconds record fine but after that it sounds like it's going through a flanger of some type Check that you do not have "software playthrough" selected (Transport menu). not like audacity 1.2.6 where there was a choice of CD, microphone, stereo, mono, etc Was that also on t...

Audacity does not have a "process menu". It's not supposed to have. What makes you think that it should?

Which version of Audacity? (Help menu > About Audacity)
What operating system?

I've got the "nightly build". Is it now only a simple matter of unzipping and installing it? As it says on the download page: " Instructions: Extract the contents of the zip to a new folder and double-click audacity.exe" To make life easier you can create a Desktop shortcut to t...

What operating system? If Vista, see here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php? ... ng_devices

The actual recordings take place over several days, but the length is only about ten minutes. You mean that you are trying to make a recording that is several days long but the sound activated periods are very short? Exactly which version of Audacity are you using? Does it work over shorter periods...

The other thing that can cause it is if "Software Playthrough" is enabled.
"Software Playthrough" should not be enabled.

Audacity 1.2 projects can be opened in Audacity 1.3 providing that all the data that the project uses is still available. Audacity projects are unsuitable for long-term storage as they are very large and very easy to destroy. You are strongly advised to Export your work as WAV files asap. Vital info...

I need to tweak the program to include some kind of function that allows me to select a chunk of the wave, randomly select half of the points, and switch the sign for these chosen points. Any ideas? Here's a "proof of concept" This is for Audacity 1.3.x only - I've not tested in 1.2 but i...

Irish wrote:I think you could probably write a Nyquist plug-in to do it.

Yes you can, but I doubt that it'll sound like what you expect.

I'll see if I can knock something together to demonstrate.