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the latest version of audacity To cover bases, please answer the questions in the pink panel at the top of the page. i am coming out of a mixer desk into my computer when the first track is laid down then i try and play my drums to it i can hear my drums coming back a fraction of a second later thi...

Whenever I save a file through Audacity, the sound quality is slightly compromised Saving (File > Save Project...) is for Audacity Projects and is lossless. even if I select the highest possible settings. For example, if I try to save a .wav file You File > Export... WAV files, and "Save"...

I did mention WIn8, is there more information needed? Oops I missed that, even so, is it Windows 8 or Windows 8.1? As I said, Audacity works fine when I click on its Icon. The problem happens when I call it from the Task Scheduler. I don't follow your posts but I get the impression this has been go...

Hello. Can I access sound effects - e.g. door slamming, engine running etc. - from outside sources that supply hundreds of samples? If so, how? Audacity does not go online and download files for you. Try https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sounds_by_type and http://www.freesound.org/ . Gale

Thanks for the excellent report, though I wasn't clear what you meant by playback in audacity to the build in logic (or any other program) output of my macbook works fine Do you have latest firmware and drivers for the Edirol? Do you have an empty or partially empty track above what you recorded, if...

Yes, I apologize for leaving out the middle digit. The version I tried were 2.0, 2.0.2, and 2.0.6. Yet nothing worked. Please help. You need to download from http://audacityteam.org/download/windows . Click the text links. Do not click on download buttons because they are advertisements for other p...

I deleted all the channels except the one I needed and then exported that in each channel to test it out. I did it in mono as a FLAC. What I'm trying to do is to add the vocal/center channel to an already-existing audio mix in the video. You mean you want to make all six channels have the same cont...

can I preset Audacity to apply a certain Delay to whatever audio I record instead of having to record the audio first, and then apply the Delay effect to it? I am looking to creating a specific delay effect of 566 milliseconds, which would be 0.00566 seconds, correct? Not correct, as Doug says. Are...

Also see http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?p=232797#p232797 for a third-party application and online service that can fairly often identify the key signature (tonality). Training your ear to work out what the tonic note is then using Steve's plugin (or look for the highest peak in Analyze ...

Hi, When I saved my project only the .aup and the small .au files were saved. The _data file was not saved for some reason! Is there a way to play/recover this recording using the .aup and the .au files?? To cover bases, please read the pink panel at the top of the page and tell us your version of ...