Audacity Forum

Another program that may be of interest is "ejay". It is quite inexpensive (free demo's are available for download), runs on Windows, and is very easy to use. There are lots of different versions to choose from depending on what style of music you want to make. Each version comes packed wi...

There's loads of tips and tutorials in the Audacity wiki that are great for getting to know how to use Audacity. See the "Wiki Home Page" link at the top of the page. (Links to Tips and Tutorials are on the left side of the wiki page)

Generally, for thirty-five cents a headset, you don't switch anything off. Some electret capsules have "noise cancellation" built in, so I guess the headsets use one of those rather than additional electronics or software. Those capsules are often used in mobile phones, I've experimented ...

does this checking for/correction of inverted polarity double the processing time It is pretty slow at the moment as it simply processes the entire selection, sample by sample, before the Clip Fix code runs. I wrote the modification and then just dropped it into the Clip Fix code so that it would p...

They will not manage a microphone connection, however, so that's where I get to break out the credit card and y'all get to laugh at me. Not at all, most PC's have rubbish microphone pre-amps. However the line-in on many PC sound cards (full size PC's rather than lap-tops) are quite respectable. I d...

In Audacity "Save" creates Audacity Projects which are NOT audio files. To create an audio file you must use one of the "Export" functions (from the file menu). Check out the Tutorials and Tips in the wiki (link at top of the page) for lots of useful information about how to use ...

I see the confusion. It is actually possible to record sounds that are triggered by the keyboard, but it will not sound the same as the keyboard and it will require additional software to be used. The "default MIDI music playback device" that is listed is a software synthesizer that is inc...

In almost all of the cases of obvious clipping, when the waveforms are posted, they look nothing like classic waveform flat-topping (and bottoming). That's true, and in most cases the distortion is so bad that the only solution is to delete it and start again. The exception to this is where the rec...

in Audacity I have to set the record volume control right at the bottom (0.1, it only goes in steps of .1) to keep peak indicated levels below zero. I strongly suspect that you are trying to record through a microphone input and not a line level input. If this is a laptop computer you may need to g...

So as to answer your question promptly, here is a short list of the common issues. Please let us know which ones you have checked so far - if there are any that you do not understand, let us know that too. USB device connected to computer and recognised by Windows before you open Audacity. Computer ...