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by steve
Sun Dec 08, 2019 6:07 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Working principle behind "Noise Reduction"
Replies: 3
Views: 228

Re: Working principle behind "Noise Reduction"

There's an article about the Noise Reduction algorithm on the Audacity wiki: https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/How_Audacity_Noise_Reduction_Works Note that this article is quite old, and is about an older version of the Noise Reduction effect, so some details may be slightly different, but the basi...
by steve
Sun Dec 08, 2019 6:06 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Variable pitch track?
Replies: 1
Views: 263

Re: Variable pitch track?

The only "controller track" that Audacity has (at present) is the "Time Track".
For changing pitch without changing the speed, Audacity has two effects:
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/change_pitch.html
and
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/sli ... retch.html
by steve
Sun Dec 08, 2019 6:03 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Open a file MP3 at a specific audio position
Replies: 1
Views: 166

Re: Open a file MP3 at a specific audio position

No, Audacity doesn't have that feature. You would need to add a command to set the cursor position. Note that normal batch processing acts on the entire file. To apply an edit / effect on just part of the files, you need to use commands to "select" the appropriate part - see the "Fade...
by steve
Sun Dec 08, 2019 5:57 pm
Forum: GNU/Linux
Topic: Why is everything so tiny?
Replies: 3
Views: 1359

Re: Why is everything so tiny?

Depending on you Desktop environment, you may find some of the suggestions in this article helpful: https://www.addictivetips.com/ubuntu-linux-tips/enable-hidpi-scaling-on-linux/ (Personally I use XFCE, but my display is a relatively modest 1920x1080, so while some of the fonts are a bit small, it i...
by steve
Sun Dec 08, 2019 5:32 pm
Forum: macOS
Topic: How to put Audacity in your dock and use microphone in 10.15 Catalina
Replies: 64
Views: 18879

Re: How to put Audacity in your dock and use microphone in 10.15 Catalina

All it does for me is open up Audacity with no pop up window with permission to access microphone. For me, the pop-up appeared when I clicked the record button for the first time. After that, I still need to launch Audacity from a Terminal window, but there's no more prompting for access to the mic...
by steve
Sun Dec 08, 2019 5:26 pm
Forum: GNU/Linux
Topic: Sound Finder Lag
Replies: 3
Views: 384

Re: Sound Finder Lag

If you need sound / Silence finder to be sample accurate, it would be relatively easy to modify the plug-ins so that the process every sample instead of blocks. These plug-ins are just plain text files, so it's quite possible for anyone to make the necessary modifications - no need for "compili...
by steve
Sun Dec 08, 2019 5:22 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Unable to record at 768 kHz on Windows via ASIO
Replies: 14
Views: 2076

Re: Unable to record at 768 kHz on Windows via ASIO

You should hear the difference in 20-20000 range How do you know that the "difference" isn't due to Noise Reduction working better at the lower sample rate? The reason why this is probably the case, is that the frequency band of the noise profile are much narrower (more specific) at lower...
by steve
Sat Dec 07, 2019 10:26 am
Forum: GNU/Linux
Topic: Sound Finder Lag
Replies: 3
Views: 384

Re: Sound Finder Lag

Sound / Silence finder plug-ins are not sample accurate. They analyze the audio in small blocks rather than sample by sample. This is because they are "Nyquist plug-ins" and for Nyquist, looping through every sample would be rather slow whereas looping through the selection is small blocks...
by steve
Fri Dec 06, 2019 9:56 pm
Forum: New Plug-Ins
Topic: Windowed-sinc filter (steep cut-off filter)
Replies: 18
Views: 5538

Re: Windowed-sinc filter (steep cut-off filter)

I've just noticed a bug!
The filter has positive gain. This means that it amplifies sound in the pass-band.

Fix to follow.
by steve
Fri Dec 06, 2019 4:23 pm
Forum: macOS
Topic: Latest, most up-to-date instructions needed.
Replies: 14
Views: 603

Re: Latest, most up-to-date instructions needed.

Audacity 2.3.3 is a 64-bit app. It requires a 64-bit version of macOS.