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See this Forum announcement Audacity under macOS 10.15 Catalina

And many thanks to noraa for posting that workaround

Peter

See this Forum announcement Audacity under macOS 10.15 Catalina

And many thanks to noraa for posting that workaround

Peter

See this Forum announcement Audacity under macOS 10.15 Catalina

And many thanks to noraa for posting that workaround

Peter

In early October Apple released its latest operating system 10.15.x known as Catalina. Audacity 2.3.3 is not officially supported yet to run under Catalina (the new version 2.4.0 does run properly on Catalina) . It appears to launch and run fine but it fails to record from the microphone (or externa...

You can open Audacity via the terminal using the following command: open /Applications/Audacity.app/Contents/MacOS/Audacity Very useful insight there noraa :ugeek: 8-) Once I'd found out where Apple hide the Terminal app ;) On first use it asked told me that audacity wanted to access the mic - and ...

Cancoillote wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 11, 2019 6:33 am

[EDIT] found my answer in https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/mixing.html "Mixing Levels" chapter.

I'm jolly glad the Manual proves useful

Peter.

But if I click the cut button, for example, I'll see the hesitation the next time I try to play. This may be providing a hint to the problem. I can't provoke the "hesitation" silent playback by using the Cut button (W10 testing on 2.3.2 and 2.3.3 alpha) When I get it, it's the first P;lay...

Frankly I don't think you can beat a Mac. I still have mine from 2014 and it is still going strong. And apart from the fact that Audacity is not supported on Catalina yet - there's also the fact that on a Mac you can't record what's playing on the computer (a webstream say) unless you use additiona...

When Dominic Mazzoni first created Audacity, he set the ceilng in the Normalize effect to -3.0 dB to provide such headroom as discussed in this thread. In later years Audacity Team decided to set the default to -1.0 dB In contrast with the complementary Amplify effec, the effect when executed calcul...

P.S. Bonus unrelated issue: Trying to reduce volume on a track. Went to Effect > Amplify, put in the amount, and hit the return key, but no luck. I had to use the trackpad to line up the arrow on the OK button and click. Not a major issue, but I miss the time-saving ease of just hitting the return ...