Audacity Forum

As Trebor wrote, you need a DAW with support for virtual instruments.
I'd suggest that you try GarageBand.

The free "ReaFir" VST from Reaper has a nice equalizer.

You're probably trying to amplify too much. By default, the Apply button is greyed out if you try to amplify beyond 0 dB.
When you open the Amplify effect, what is the "Amplification (dB)"? (The top entry box)

This page in the manual describes the Metadata support that is available in Audacity: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/met ... ditor.html

Half track height is a good recording level.

That's a popular feature request. Currently "Sound Activated Recording" in Audacity simply stops when the sound drops below the threshold level - there is no "post roll".

(Cmd + .) does not work on the “Magic Keyboard” for iMac, because you would have to press Shift to access the dot key. I replaced it with (Cmd + ; ) in the keyboard preferences > shortcut. Now it works. ( . and ; ) are on the same key. I've just tested, and "Cmd + ." works for me with an ...

On Linux and Windows it's "Ctrl + M"

Possibly "command + M" on Mac, though I vaguely recall "command + ." (dot) being something on Mac.

Empa wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 21, 2020 3:42 pm

This makes sure, every current and future user has identical default settings

Until they change something.

Empa wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 21, 2020 3:08 pm

I have found what I was looking for: C:\Users\%currentuser%\AppData\Roaming\audacity\audacity.cfg (lines 273-285)

There is absolutely no need to manually edit the audacity.cfg file. All settings in that configuration file can be properly set through the GUI.