Audacity Forum

no-one else really uses it or has great enthusiasm for it.

And how.

Thank you, Richard. That's one more big mystery down the drain.

It would be nice if Audacity would tell you it can't play MIDI files.

I, too, have had GNU/Linux audio trouble in the past. The only way I was able to get my sound card to work right was by getting JACK up and running (and that was a nightmare).

Audacity's Software Playthrough option isn't in a good position to give you a good monitoring signal. In fact, it's usually pretty terrible. You'll need to set up your OS's audio driver software to provide a monitoring signal through there, monitoring through software is always set up for failure. T...

Do you have the right recording input set in Audacity's Edit -> Preferences -> Audio I/O menu?

RodA, Do your sound card and your drivers support arbitrary sample rates? Many sound cards do not support sample rates like 30KHz, or 33KHz. Even if your card does, that's no guarantee it won't run into clocking problems. Whenever you use a "non-standard" sample rate, your sound cards cloc...

Yeah, making sure the two sounds are exactly lined up is important. You really need to be accurate down to each sample. If you're more than a sample or two off, you'll just get some comb filtering, or if it's further off, it'll sound like a very short slap-back echo. But once you get it perfectly li...

Wow, I'm glad you got it up and running.

I'm really surprised that would cause Audacity to crash, but evidently it did. It's good to know for future reference.

Thanks for letting us know what fixed it.

It's certainly possible, to an extent. I remember a post on the old forum boards where someone had recorded an hour long lecture onto two separate tracks (due to an intermission in the middle). The only problem was that he had recorded the second track using the Stereo Mix source and had two tracks ...

I am not using wave because the sound engineer that did the recording only supplied me with mp3. The long wave file was too big for his server or something... So? There's no reason you couldn't convert the mp3 to wav. It wouldn't add any quality to the file, but it would take away any possibility o...