Audacity Forum

cyrano wrote:I'm not sure how Audacity handles 5.1 audio.

Audacity can record multiple channels if you have hardware that presents those channels as coming from the same device. That is often not the case on Windows.

All Audacity playback is mixed down to stereo or mono.


Gale

This may do what you want. http://www.daansystems.com/radiodelay/.

Some people use it to delay radio commentaries of televised sports.


Gale

You can delay playback of an existing Audacity track by adjusting "Audio to buffer" in the Recording Preferences. However this does not work with Software Playthrough when recording because that latency is at a fixed amount you can't change. What is the goal you are doing this for? Gale

No you are not missing a setting in Audacity.

Does increasing the Audacity priority make any difference?

Gale

Try a much lower Audio to buffer in Audacity's Recording Preferences. Start from 0 ms. Go up in 10 ms increments until it records properly then use that lowest possible value. If you have not done so yet, open /Applications/Utilities/Audio MIDI Setup and set Zoom to 44100.0 Hz 1ch 16-bit (or 24-bit ...

VAMP plugins will be in the Analyze Menu once you have installed them correctly. See http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/analyze_menu.html#vamp . So if you are on 64-bit Windows, create a folder "Vamp Plugins" (without the quotes) in C:\Program Files (x86)\ then put the downloaded files i...

Audacity 2.1.1 has not been released yet. If you are a novice you should not be using unreleased alpha versions of Audacity. You can get 2.1.0 release here http://web.audacityteam.org/download/windows . Whenever you press Record it creates a new track for you. So you can press Record, press Stop to ...

If you import songs they are in Audacity tracks on top of each other. So if you want them to play one after the other you have to string them out one after the other along the Timeline. But if you want that I don't understand why you are talking about a "mix". If you mute any tracks they a...

If these are M4A/MP4 files it's a bug in Audacity 2.1.0 unfortunately. You can fix it by installing FFmpeg. Please see this topic for download link and more explanation: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 47&t=84958.

Gale

If it's a USB turntable, set Windows back to use your speakers or headphones, or simply disconnect the turntable. See Why have I lost sound after connecting a USB device on Windows? . If you want to hear the LP while recording, enable Transport > Software Playthrough in the Audacity menu at the top ...