Audacity Forum

From the Nyquist Transformation Environment discussion: Audacity does not completely respect the Nyquist environment, e.g. when you make a selection, Audacity pretends like the beginning of the selection is at time 0. I'm not sure if this was a wise decision, but that's how it works. Also, if you r...

Basically I've recorded something which is very flat but every now and then it spikes... I need to bring the loudest bits down so I can then normalize and increase the volume as a whole. How do I cut anything above a certain level? Effect > Compressor . If this was a vocal recording by you, use a p...

Hello, I'm new to the forum, and I do a lot of recording. I used to simply go through my Multiverb to record the Audacity via a USB input. I just purchased a Behringer 1204 Mixer and I have been able to get signal in and out of Audacity and record okay. The problem is. I am using headphones to hear...

Thanks for reposting to the correct forum. So do my earlier replies help as below? You can try getting drivers from the Creative site, but you have a legacy device, so Creative won't give you any official support. You may want to ask on their Forums in that case. If you change the Audacity playback ...

I tried recording some music from an external cassette deck into my Mac. Well, no matter how low I set the input levels in the Mac preferences, or in Audacity, even all the way to zero, the input is so high it's almost all distorted. This is driving me crazy, & holding up all my recording. How ...

This is my first time on this forum and i have gone through all the topics and i cant seem to see the specific topic im looking for. Please have patience with me because this is the first time i downloaded Audacity and i do not know how to work it. I am a DJ and i want to be able to record my mixes...

I am unable to open a midi file in Audacity-but, it plays in Showtime, so I'm pretty sure the file is OK. in Audacity. File>Open gets “Error importing.....If uncompressed try Raw Import” ... Audacity 1.2 only displays MIDI. Audacity Beta (1.3 series) can edit MIDI as well as display it. Neither ver...

I will continue to use 1.3.13 especially for my timed recordings and will monitor. Peter tells me that a timed recording in 1.3.13 from 21:59 to 23:10 carried on recording overnight and had to be force-quit. So wxWidgets 2.8.11 in itself doesn't help, on Windows anyway, I've put Nikolay's patch for...

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When I press RECORD to add a new audio track to a file (song) that already contains at least one audio track, the playback of the previously recorded track(s) is distorted. I'm using the Lexicon Alpha unit. Please don't send private messages asking for help - posting in the Forum is all you need to...