Audacity Forum

I know there are like a gazillion posts out there on M-Audio with Audacity, but unfortunately none have been able to help me out. I am running Audacity 2.0.1, Ubuntu 12.10 and pulseaudio....where the m audio card gets detected and no the input is not muted. When I try to record, ...

... fan noise. Directional microphones are good here, too. If you get a good one, you can "point" the dead zone toward the fan and that will help a lot. You didn't say so, but you probably have room echo as well. Does it sound like you're recording in your kitchen? Are you recording in your ...

... lines: Horizontal . . . please add my vote for this, a horizontal line overlay, on the waveform view (not necessarily the spectrogram view) to help me lower amplitude on spikes often found in live recordings to a max value defined by the horizontal line. I have to bring up a carefully-sized ...

... The manual is also included in the recommended "installer" version of Audacity 2.0.3. You can find it in the Help menu.

... before the start of the music. Release the mouse button, then release the Shift key. Press the Del key to delete the selected region. Does that help?

... it comes up on top with a window with large buttons top left and then empty space where the audio tracks go. If this happens, then you can choose Help Menu (at the top right) then "About Audacity" to see if you already have the latest 2.0.3. Gale

... with version 2.0.0 right now. If I have to uninstall I don't know whether there are enough benefits to go through that again. Hope someone can help and just installing over the older version would work. Thanks in advance, Tom

... 'Noisy Laser' problem by using the incorrect Project Rate or something else in Audacity? I was burning the CD's using medium speed. Thanks for any help Dean

The Audacity manual is not normally included in Linux installations, but it is available on-line here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/
It can also be opened from a link in the Audacity Help menu.

Thanks! i thought there was something wrong with the file...