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The "red mark" is the Recording Cursor in the Timeline. Once you do get a signal into Audacity, the recording will start and the cursor will move with the waveform (in your top image). In your lower image you have pinned the play/record head and with that the "red mark" drawing-p...

See: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/spl ... racks.html

WC

And having looked myself at that page in the Manual I'm thinking that that subsection could maybe do with an image to make it clearer. (I am the main editor of the Manual - so I'll make myself an editornote to get around to doing that.) I had a bit of time on my hands, so I went ahead and updated t...

And having looked myself at that page in the Manual I'm thinking that that subsection could maybe do with an image to make it clearer.

(I am the main editor of the Manual - so I'll make myself an editornote to get around to doing that.)

WC

I'm guessing that you are recording on a new track (below an existing track) and not appending to the end of the existing track. If so, then it is likely that you have made a selection in the existing track(s) - the blue shading appears in the timeline when you do that - and yes, then it is quite in...

DJDemon wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 18, 2018 12:30 pm

I should add that my macOS is 10.12 (Sierra),

I'm on Mojave 10.14.2

WC

waxcylinder wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 18, 2018 12:19 pm

… I'll raise a P4 enhancement entry for it on Bugzilla

Done - see: https://bugzilla.audacityteam.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2051

Peter.

I'm thinking that this is one shortcut that we should probably move into the reduced Standard shortcut set. I agree. It is definitely one shortcut that I miss if I don't have the full set enabled. Several other people have also written in about the "loss" of this shortcut. OK - so I'll ra...

Sounds like this bug: https://bugzilla.audacityteam.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2009

that we fixed for the upcoming 2.3.1 release (probably next month)

WC

If you mean the "Ctrl + i" ("split") shortcut, it is in the "full" set of defaults. See: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/keyboard_preferences.html#defaults Or if you don't want/need the Full set of shortcuts you could just add Ctrl + i (or any other key/key combina...