Volume leveling using "Chris' " dynamic-compressor-for-audacity-1.2.6

[dhouston1000]

Volume leveling using "Chris’ " dynamic-compressor-for-audacity-1.2.6 created a number of “filler” elements before and after the track clips I put there.

It works amazingly and I was curious as to what are those extra elements within the tracks, and why did my aup3 file explode to over 6 gigs (32 minutes, 9 mono tracks, none of which are that long in and of themselves.)

[Trebor]

@dhouston1000

what are those extra elements within the tracks

Nyquist plugins convert any empty space to silence …

AUDACITY CREATING UNWANTED SILENCES

‘Pseudo Stereo’ is a “Nyquist effect”. One of the limitations of Nyquist effects is that they treat empty track space as if it was silence. Thus if the selection includes empty track space, it will be converted to silence by Nyquist effects. You may be able to work around this limitation by applying “Truncate Silence” after the ‘Pseudo Stereo’ effect has run. (See; https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/truncate_silence.html)

@dhouston1000

why did my aup3 file explode to over 6 gigs

The introduction of non-destructive editing in Audacity v3 uses much more memory than previous versions.

[dhouston1000]

So, theoretically, I could edit each track as I have been doing, move them to one track, sequentially, then run the volume leveling to just one track so as to not increase the file size to an absurd level?

[Trebor]

@dhouston1000

not increase the file size to an absurd level?

Absurd file sizes are unavoidable in Audacity 3.

BTW Audacity3 has a built-in compressor which can be adjusted in realtime
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/compressor.html#Realtime

[DVDdoug]

You can delete the AUP3 project when you’re done and after you’ve exported as a standard audio file.