Audacity Forum

Hi SKing, I've merged your last post with your previous topic so that anyone else replying will know what you are asking about. Apologies for abandoning you part way through, I must have missed your last post and assumed that you had it sorted now. formula for calculating the speed is Divide 100 by ...

Audacity 1.2 is pretty old now and often does not run well on Vista.
Read this first: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php? ... s_Vista_OS
Then try installing Audacity 1.3

The only thing that comes to mind is that it is an issue with your sound card. Check thoroughly that you do not have any settings such as "Noise removal", "Automatic Gain Control" (AGC) or "Noise Cancellation" selected in the sound card control panel. If that does not f...

Altedor wrote:Audacity was working fine until I few days ago when I installed SONAR 8,

When you install Sonar, I think it also installs some VST plug-ins and I suspect that this is what is causing the problem. Have a look and see if you can find any recently installed VSTs and remove them and see if that helps.

Where are you expecting to hear the sound from? The mixer or your sound card?
What do you have set as the playback device in "Edit > Preferences > Audio I/O"?

brucern wrote:It says I have over 23 hrs recording time available on the hard drive.

How much actual disk space do you have on your C: drive?
Have you defragmented the drive lately? If not, do that when you have time (overnight is a good idea for large drives if they have a lot of fragmentation) then try again.

More often than not, when I'm recording a track the quality suddenly goes down. How fast/slow does it do this? Are we talking seconds / minutes / hours ? Does the recorded volume level also change at the same time? As a test, if your computer can record "Stereo Mix", could you try recordi...

kozikowski wrote: Can you put the track back the same way?

You can't put it back into a video the same way, but you can Export as a .MOV file

Oh my, I think I need to lie down now....

I've just tried it in Audacity 1.3.8 and it will change the tempo of all selected tracks correctly.

Do you mean "Speech to text conversion"? Audacity can't do that. The only program that I've used that can do this is Nuance's Dragon NaturallySpeaking , though there are many others: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=speech+to+text+software The technology is not perfect and requires some &q...