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Hello Steve Again thank you very much for explaining it in the other way, this for sure, help me in understanding!, very good explanation for a rookie like me, I think I now start to see what is going on. I will play a bit more with Audacity, and my samples, and if ...

Big projects (both number of tracks and length of project) will tend to reduce responsiveness. Muting tracks does little to help because much of the delay is from the graphics rather than playing the audio. Some tips to minimise this: 1) Splitting a project into sections. I generally ...

... Applications can work faster and with better efficiency if they can speak 64 bit, but it's not required. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/15056/windows-7-32-64-bit-faq Sound is hacked up into tiny individual chunks for recording and processing and each of those chunks has a description ...

... or the main performer doesn't drop out here and there. Each performer is going to have to be adjusted individually, so pack a lunch. You can help during the recording by using directional microphones and make sure each performer is in the dead zone of the others. Also a carpeted room with ...

Perhaps mtolesen is asking for Normalization presets?

Gale

... Oh wow! I am such a ditz! I never actually selected the streams. I don't know how I overlooked this the entire time. Thank you so much for the help. I'm so sorry to take up so much of your time for something so simple. But trust me, I'm an extremely happy person right now!

Oh wow! I am such a ditz! I never actually selected the streams. I don't know how I overlooked this the entire time. Thank you so much for the help. I'm so sorry to take up so much of your time for something so simple. But trust me, I'm an extremely happy person right now!

... done as 32-bit float but the only WAV export option is "WAV (Microsoft) signed 16-bit PCM". I've attached a picture of a screen print to help explain this conundrum. Am I misreading the instruction or am I missing the correct file-type option? Thanks. Ed

I have windows 8. I am very new to this and not technologically inclined. When I export to a disc, and try to play it on a cd player, I can hear the recording but very very faint regardless of the volume setting. Thank for the help.

... the "snipping tool", there are instructions for how to take a screenshot of the relevant part here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/13776/windows-use-snipping-tool-to-capture-screenshots Instructions for uploading an image (the screenshot) to the forum are here: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=64936