Audacity Forum

truthmechanic wrote:I would like to know whether keyboard shortcuts can trigger installed plugins (e.g. LADSPA)

No they can't. The user can install whatever third party plug-ins that they want and Audacity would not know what parameters the plug-in needs.

Capt Ike wrote:For instance, I have a sound clip of crickets chirping which I slowed down.

How did you do that? Please give a step-by-step of what you did to slow the track down.

I think there is a utility on the Blue Snowball website that reduces the gain of the microphone.

spoken22 wrote:Another problem if I delete the files it will not delete because still running

If you are using Windows, use the Task Manager to end the process, then delete the unwanted files.

There are known problems with exporting as MP3 in the current beta version of Audacity (1.3.5) To get round all this, put LAME (not the compiled binary like lame_enc.dll) in the same folder as the Audacity executable, and choose the Audacity command line encoder ("external program") when y...

If the microphone is "live" when you are recording from "Stereo Mix", it could be picking up sound from your speakers.

Go into your sound card control panel / mixer and make sure that all inputs and sound sources that you do not want to record are muted.

what do they mean by highlighting my recording?? How do i do that? To highlight (select) all tracks, press Ctrl+A To select one track, click on the track then press the "Enter" key. To select part of one or more tracks, click with the left mouse button on a track, and while you hold down ...

I think you've just discovered a good reason to have another go with Audacity 1.3.x It is possible to do a repair manually, by zooming in so that you can see the individual samples, then using the draw (pencil) tool to smooth out the click. This can take quite a while if you've got a lot of clicks t...

Just out of curiosity I've made a fully synthesized example - a weird kind of futuristic space train going past. Since this was synthesized from scratch, I had to also synthesize the Doppler shift (using the time track in Audacity 1.3.5), and also added some reverb (freeverb) and progressively filte...