Audacity Forum

... on to your machine. Bummer. Tell us how you are getting the file (more accurately: the audio) on to your machine? Slowing it down is not going to help things unless you are only slightly slowing it down,. To minimize distortion and noise, you're going to want to record the audio at a fairly low ...

... a factor of 100 and 1000 lower. Audacity itself seems to be artifically scaling the measurements to fit its -1 to 1 scale. Would you please help me in answering or finding the answers to the following questions as to what Audacity does with .wav files: 1. I assume that the vibration meter ...

... I'm convince it's a plug-in. No worries, I can live with the message if it lets me export the scrubbed audio which it did. Thanks again for the help! Joe B

OK, that worked but now I can't do anything with effects. How does this help? I guess that a plug-in is causing an issue so does that mean I have to manually go thru and figure out which one it is? Thanks, I do appreciate the swift response. I have a gig where ...

Thanks Steve. You nailed it. It worked just as you said. I appreciate your help!

It occurs to me that when I speak to my friends who do home and studio recording, none of them have ever mentioned latency, and when I mention it, they seem confused. Many users are not doing overdub recording, so for them, latency is not an issue. For many other users, the default settings (100/-1...

A music major friend of mine once asked me, "What makes you think all the instruments in the orchestra are starting at the same time?" Koz

The grown-up programs don't use the built-in computer sound services. They use custom software drivers and packages that purposely create new sound pathways that can greatly minimize delays. Audacity can't do that because that costs money and also the program has to work seamlessly across the three ...

Hi Gale, Thanks for the pointers on setting up the profiles. Really appreciate that. As for the automatic latency correction, in theory that sounds great if it works . Would it still give you the option to set it manually? And if it did come into existence, would the feature recalibrate latency ever...

... unsure of what to do to fix this issue, because I would really like to be able to record audio for my videos... Any ways, thanks to anyone who can help me out!