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Using Cool Edit, I used to be able to do all of the following. Can't do any with Audacity. 3. Delete a middle portion of a song to shorten its length, while maintaining continuity of the main beat. With Cool Edit, I would play the song and tap out a marker for every main beat leading up to the sect...

Using Cool Edit, I used to be able to do all of the following. Can't do any with Audacity. 2. Vary the amplitude of a selection over its width. (I think it's call an envelope function.) Example: allow a boost of, say, 3 dB at the left end of the selection and a boost of 1 dB at the right end, with ...

Indeed, that is expected behaviour - changing the temp will change the length of the selected audio (as will Change Speed). This is what is says on the Change Tempo page in the Audacity Manual: "Use Change Tempo to change the tempo and thus the length (duration) of a selection, without changing...

I cannot reproduce this on W10 either with the released 2.3.0 or the alpha test build for the upcoming 2.3.1

WC

What happens if you don't have any browser pages open and then click ion the "?" help button in Amplify ?

WC

You might want to take a look at Steve Davies' DeNoise software: https://alphamanual.audacityteam.org/man/Envelope_Tool#Control_Points Manual: http://www.clickrepair.net/downloads/DNManual.pdf It costs a little but IIRC you do get a 14-day free trial. I used Brian's excellent ClickRepair a LOT when ...

I did though, just now, update the page slightly for the upcoming 2,3,1 manual to add a new section header for Control Points and tweaked/reordered the txt to try to make it clearer.

See: https://alphamanual.audacityteam.org/ma ... rol_Points

WC

Yes it does - it says "An amplitude envelope is manipulated by a number of control points. Each control point is visible by its four handles (the small circles in the image above), by which you can drag the point up or down to control the volume level. " and goes on to say: "Just clic...

I cannot reproduce this on my MacBook Pro running Mojave 10.1.4.2 - not on the released 2.3.0 nor on the alpha test build for the upcoming 2.3.1

WC

See this page in the Audacity Manual: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/envelope_tool.html

WC