Audacity Compact (english edition)

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Audacity Compact (english edition)

Post by The9th » Mon Jun 29, 2009 10:21 pm

OK, I've paid my $29 bucks for the user manual, and then (silly, inattentive me :o ) went looking for the downloadable PDF. (Like, surely you wouldn't expend crushed trees smeared with ink when you could make a serial numbered PDF (i.e., can't open the PDF without your purchased key number and only on the "imprinted" device (like, the first computer the newly-hatched PDF sees will be its "mother" forever, and it will follow its mother right to the recycling heap at the end of Mommie's life-cycle)!).

So I discover that, indeed, this is a hard-copy manual :shock: . Makes no sense to me, when you can protect PDFs from being passed around indiscriminately. (At least you can if I haven't misread/misinterpreted all of the enhancements Adobe has made to its ubiquitous PDF file structure in the free Reader & definitely UN-free Editor (Acrobat Pro) s/ware.

Or am I waaaay off-base in my thinking here? :oops: (I just want to start using Audacity like a "pro" immediately on my major LP A2D2D project that's going to probably take me months--unless I can shorten the cycle by going A2D on the LPs at 45 rpm (about 35% faster than taking them in at 33.3333 rpm) and then dropping the pitch/speed back down to 33.3, LP speed, in Audacity--I'm hoping that I can do that, anyway.

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Re: Audacity Compact (english edition)

Post by kozikowski » Tue Jun 30, 2009 12:13 am

<<<OK, I've paid my $29 bucks for the user manual>>>

To who? Audacity and all the documentation I'm aware of is free.

<<<unless I can shorten the cycle by going A2D on the LPs at 45 rpm (about 35% faster than taking them in at 33.3333 rpm) and then dropping the pitch/speed back down to 33.3, LP speed, in Audacity--I'm hoping that I can do that, anyway.>>>

Pitch and speed changes are something of a hit and miss prospect in Audacity. There's questions about sound damage. Try one song and see how it sounds. There are lots of questions about doing this between 78 and 33. There are many problems with that.

You have to include the effects rendering time in your calculations. The speedup isn't free.

"Applying speed and pitch change. Please wait." [progress worm slowly inching across the screen]

Once you get one whole album digitized, Export as WAV to get the album master sound file, and do all the cleanups and adjusting on that -- and then back it up. Audacity will not Save a sound file.

Koz

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Re: Audacity Compact (english edition)

Post by steve » Tue Jun 30, 2009 12:15 am

I think this page makes it pretty clear that you are buying a "book" and not a file download. http://www.bomots.de/audacity/english.htm

There's also a shed-load of on-line help here: http://audacityteam.org/help/
9/10 questions are answered in the FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ)

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Re: Audacity Compact (english edition)

Post by steve » Tue Jun 30, 2009 12:17 am

kozikowski wrote:Audacity and all the documentation I'm aware of is free.
See the partners and other links on the bottom of this page http://audacityteam.org/
9/10 questions are answered in the FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ)

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Re: Audacity Compact (english edition)

Post by andlynx » Sun Jul 12, 2009 11:52 pm

Man, I just had the same issue. I downloaded the 40-page PDF sampler and grieve for more. In fact this book is exactly what we need for our company.

Neverthless when I tried to buy the book, guess what: no download! I'm in such a predicament now because we're in a hurry and the shipment to Chile take ages! :(

Please offer a PDF copy of the book online. You can sell it cheaper too, so the author will get more customers.

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Re: Audacity Compact (english edition)

Post by steve » Tue Jul 14, 2009 12:29 am

There is LOTS of free documentation for Audacity.
http://audacityteam.org/help/documentation
9/10 questions are answered in the FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ)

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