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Re: boosting high frequencies

2012-05-25T17:57:01

Select the section you want to tweak, then Effect->Equalization. Draw
yourself a graph that boost the top end, but bear in mind you will be
boosting high frequency noise, and if there's not much top end to start
with, you'll end up with a lot of hiss. If you can't get an acceptable
result this way, google for exciter plugins - these synthesize a plausible
set of high frequency harmonics and can make your recording sound brighter
without adding a lot of noise. I've not played with them in Audacity, so
can't recommend anything, however google turns up plenty of hits.

boosting high frequencies

bob cavanaugh — 2012-05-25T17:47:24

So, I'm done with my radio show and now am starting to look into recording
airchecks. There are several on tophour.com that don't really have much in
the way of high end frequencies, so I was going to try and boost these.
However, I don't see anything in Audacity that will let me do this. Can
someone help me? 

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Re: Need Libraries (libstdc++, libc, libm)

Bruce Alan — 2012-05-23T09:13:50

Thanks Gale,

I've been on the keyboard all day.   Spent all night last night backing up the data on the Puppy install to my main server via WiFi, all day today wiping Puppy and installing Ubu10.04LTS, configuring, and adding utilities.

Got it installed with the binaries through Synaptics, but it's running very slow and only recording about 12-15 secs of audio.  Still some bugs to work out, and might mean a compile from source, but I doubt I'll have the same problem with that as I had trying to compile under Puppy.

I'll keep the list advised.
Just scored a nice Yamaha 8-chan Mixing board, and I'm anxious to get a couple of my vintage mics wired up and do some audio production projects.  Contemplating doing some voice-overs...  We'll see how that goes.

Bruce


On Wed, 23 May 2012 05:37:44 +0100
gale< at >audacityteam.org wrote:

Re: video problem (now pitch manipulation)

2012-05-23T05:11:26

On Tue, 22 May 2012 09:41:41 +0100
william doran <william.doran3< at >hotmail.com> wrote:

Just to repeat an oft-made correction, Audacity only provides
inputs that your sound device does. If the sound device lacks 
"stereo mix" or "what U hear", or it has one of those but 
Windows is hiding it, then Audacity won't see any way to 
record computer playback. 

That's why reading the Manual would be good as Lin said. 
http://manual.audacityteam.org/help/manual/man/tutorial_recording_audio_playing_on_the_computer.html 

If you follow the link from there that says "Recording Computer 
Playback on Windows" - this one:
http://manual.audacityteam.org/help/manual/man/tutorial_recording_computer_playback_on_windows.html

you'll learn that "It is common on Windows 7 and Vista that not all 
recording inputs are automatically enabled" and that you have 
to enable them in the "Recording tab". Unfortunately that is too 
vague to be completely useful, but it means the "Recording tab" 
of Windows "Sound". You can get there by ri

Re: Need Libraries (libstdc++, libc, libm)

2012-05-23T04:37:44

On Mon, 21 May 2012 16:51:01 +0800
Bruce Alan <pinetreembr< at >gmail.com> wrote:

Bruce, 

I am not a "Linux person". I only compile Audacity on Ubuntu so I 
can test a Linux version of it when needed. 

I gave those steps only to refute what you said that it was hard to 
compile Audacity on Ubuntu. I am not suggesting the steps will work
unmodified on Slackware clones, but if you want an "easy" way to
compile Audacity trunk (aside from if you like recent Ubuntu as an OS) 
then install Ubuntu

Basically Audacity tests the tarball on several well known distros
before releasing it, but there are far too many distros to test on
them all. The fact that Slacko are offering different sources makes 
me think that modifications are needed to make Audacity compile  
with whatever library versions they have. So if their Audacity 
sources won't compile I think they should give you a better answer 
why they don't. 

One approach may be, if their source code is documented with  
versioned dependencies, to go through PPM mak

Re: video problem (now pitch manipulation)

Lin Sprague — 2012-05-22T23:41:03


I'm disappointed to learn that you're trying to manipulate the audio 
from a video. You never mentioned that in your initial message. Had I 
understood that, I wouldn't have answered as I did, because all my 
suggestions were assuming that you had already had an audio file. I 
don't think you will be able to open a Youtube video directly with Best 
Practice - that program is made to use with WAV, MP3 or other audio  
files, not video.

Your real task is to capture the audio from a video. Than you can play 
it, manipulate it, whatever, in any way you want. There's a page in the 
manual titled "Recording audio playing on the computer". Have you read 
it? It may be relevant to what you're trying to do:

http://manual.audacityteam.org/help/manual/man/tutorial_recording_audio_playing_on_the_computer.html

I understand that you may get frustrated, but your first job is to 
clearly state your question, your intent, and what you've done so far, 
all in specific detail. For example, you don't say how you manage to

Re: video problem (now pitch manipulation)

william doran — 2012-05-22T22:15:57

Hiya Lin and to all the Audacity folk who have kindly sent me offers and 
suggestions . May I say thank you all in what has been a frustrating time 
for me .    I am taking up with the  -  best practice source.net offer to 
try and sort out what has become a mess.
I intend to Download a favourite You Tube video ,to the best practice , and 
us their Effects to manipulate Tempo and ,and Pitch .
Sincere thanks to you all again  Bill Doran

-----Original Message----- 
From: william doran
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 9:41 AM
To: Discussion list for Audacity users
Subject: Re: [Audacity-users] video problem (now pitch manipulation)

Hi There Lin  , Firstly , many thanks for your remarks which I do take on
board , and you might like to know a little about my 'STRUGGLE ' ,
I have found a way - at least  with one of my keyboards to alter the pitch
by a semitone and at the moment ' live with it ' whilst I seek to
record to a manipulative wave form and from there select small parts at will
as required for further study

Re: video problem (now pitch manipulation)

william doran — 2012-05-22T08:41:41

Hi There Lin  , Firstly , many thanks for your remarks which I do take on 
board , and you might like to know a little about my 'STRUGGLE ' ,
I have found a way - at least  with one of my keyboards to alter the pitch 
by a semitone and at the moment ' live with it ' whilst I seek to
record to a manipulative wave form and from there select small parts at will 
as required for further study .  With respect - This is my Topic .
It certainly is enough for me --   Anyway back to my problem .  Okay , I 
have a video of say Oscar Petersen running . - I do not know what sort of
file it is , so I cannot open it with Audacity . It is the getting it into 
Audacity that appears to me to be a stumbling block .
The 1.3 version has a ' What You Hear '  option from what I understand from 
various people who have kindly e-mailed me , but this is not on
the new 2.0 version .
There is no ' Video problem ' - All I am after is Recording the Audio from 
this video in Waveform .
Lin  Thanks once again , I will go through your sugg

Re: Need Libraries (libstdc++, libc, libm)

Bruce Alan — 2012-05-21T08:51:01

Thanks again Gale,

Checked out that link, got SVN (and it's assoc libraries 'ruby' and 'tk') installed, seemed to run fine, but does anyone have a suggestion for a similar tool to 'apt-get' ?  That utility is not available under this distro (like I said, the distro is built mainly on Slackware, hence the "Slacko Puppy" name).  Not sure if installing the ACTUAL 'apt-get' utility would drop stuff in the proper architecture on a semi-Slack tree.

Would 'gslapt' fill the purpose needed by 'apt-get' ?
If so, any thoughts on cmd-line for that ('gslapt') ?

The actual utility used on this distro is called 'Puppy Package Manager', executable name 'ppm'.

Taking this one step at a time.
The 'big book' way...

TA,
     BA

On Mon, 21 May 2012 03:22:43 +0100
gale< at >audacityteam.org wrote:

Re: video problem (now pitch manipulation)

Lin Sprague — 2012-05-21T18:37:00


You don't say what you've been doing, so it's not possible to say what 
you're doing wrong.

After opening the file with Audacity, I can easily select any portion 
of the WAV and choose Change Tempo from the Effect menu. Then choose 
Change Pitch from the same menu.

That said, I don't consider Audacity to be the best tool for this job, 
since you can't manipulate the tempo and pitch in real time. For a 
practice tool, I like to use my regular sound file player, Foobar2000, 
with the Soundtouch plugin. It's got separate sliders for pitch, tempo, 
and rate. And even more convenient choice might be the $50 program, The 
Amazing Slow Downer (http://www.ronimusic.com/). It can slow down and 
re-pitch music, and you can loop sections while doing it. Since I'm 
cheap, I've instead been using "Best Practice" 
(http://bestpractice.sourceforge.net/), a similar free utility that 
does most of the same stuff, although it's a bit buggy. Good enough for 
my purposes.

By the way, it would be better if you started your

Re: video problem

william doran — 2012-05-21T07:19:20

Hi , I am attempting to ; Record the Audio from a favourite say , pianist and be able to select small sections of the wavefile on screen , so that I can
slow the playing down without losing the pitch , and then manipulate the pitch ( fine tuning ) , for further study – ( I am learning piano ) .
I have Audacity 2.0  - Windows 7 – FFmpeg . and have had some very helpful advice ,and many thanks for this , but none seem to work for me ,and since I am losing lots of practise time , I am fast considering it to be a lost cause .   Sincerely  Bill Doran

From: bob cavanaugh 
Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2012 7:21 PM
To: 'Discussion list for Audacity users' 
Subject: Re: [Audacity-users] video problem

1.       My goal was to record audio from a dvd to Audacity and paste it into my radio show. 

2.       2. I recorded the audio and attempted to paste it into my other project that is my radio show. 

3.       3. What I expected to happen was that the audio from the video was supposed to be pasted where I wanted it, movi

Re: Need Libraries (libstdc++, libc, libm)

Steve the Fiddle — 2012-05-21T02:46:18

Those 6 steps also work on Debian Squeeze.

Steve

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Re: video problem

2012-05-21T02:45:14

On Sun, 20 May 2012 11:10:23 -0700
"bob cavanaugh" <bobdavcav< at >comcast.net> wrote:

Audacity would stop recording as soon as you pressed Play in the other 
project. It would also stop playing in one project as soon as you
pressed Play in another project so as to start playback in that project.

It isn't really safe at the moment for Audacity to have two streams
going on in two different projects. 



There isn't any known reason why you cannot paste between projects,
so it's very hard to comment as to why the paste apparently did not
work. 



Gale 


 
 


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Re: Fwd: Looping audio - 1.3.14-beta WindowsXP

2012-05-21T02:24:37

Just to add that Chris also wrote to feedback< at > and I understand 
from Chris that the issue is with the slideshow program, not 
Audacity.



Gale   


On Sat, 19 May 2012 20:20:38 -0700
Chris Edwards <cedwards155< at >gmail.com> wrote:



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* If

Re: Need Libraries (libstdc++, libc, libm)

2012-05-21T02:22:43

On Sun, 20 May 2012 12:10:54 +0800
Bruce Alan <pinetreembr< at >gmail.com> wrote:

Compiling Audacity on Ubuntu should need only these steps:
http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/CompilingAudacityForBeginners#simple .





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Re: video problem

bob cavanaugh — 2012-05-20T18:21:40

1.       My goal was to record audio from a dvd to Audacity and paste it
into my radio show. 

2.       2. I recorded the audio and attempted to paste it into my other
project that is my radio show. 

3.       3. What I expected to happen was that the audio from the video was
supposed to be pasted where I wanted it, moving the audio already in that
track forward. Then I would have to time shift the other tracks forward by
the amount that the third track was extended by. 

4.       4. What actually happened was the audio didn't appear to be pasted
in, despite the undo record showing that I had pasted audio in. 

From: Reid Zak [mailto:reidzak< at >gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2012 4:42 PM
To: Discussion list for Audacity users
Subject: Re: [Audacity-users] video problem

 

So, here are some troubleshooting questions:

1. What is your goal?

2. What steps did you take to achieve the goal?

3. What was supposed to happen?

4. What actually happened?

 

--Reid

 

 

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 11:06 PM, bob cav

Re: video problem

bob cavanaugh — 2012-05-20T18:10:23

The recording and the track I pasted it into were both stereo. When I tried
to paste it in, it appeared there was nothing there, yet I could undo the
paste. I don't remember if it was just silence or if it just continued with
playing the tracks, I seem to remember it was the latter, but I can't
remember for sure. I thought it had to do with the fact that I was pasting
into the middle of an audio track, but I decided to select all tracks and
copy them all into a separate project, where the audio from the video would
go at the end, and it still didn't work. The next thing I tried was to play
the project while recording into the project that is my radio show. I
started the recording, then I pressed Alt Tab to go over to the other
project to press play. When I came back to my radio show and played it back,
the only thing there was my screen reader as I tabbed between projects in
the beginning. Also what was weird was that I could not undo the record,
which I usually can. Since I had saved the project just before

Re: Need Libraries (libstdc++, libc, libm)

stan — 2012-05-20T18:05:52

On Sun, 20 May 2012 12:10:54 +0800
Bruce Alan <pinetreembr< at >gmail.com> wrote:
 
 
 

I'm running the beta version of Fedora, 17.  I compile audacity from
subversion.  I just updated to the latest version, 11743, and it
compiled and runs just fine.  It blew through the place you had your
error without even slowing down.

Some points:

These are all much *newer* than are found in F17, 6, 2, and 6
respectitely.  I suspect they don't exist, or if they do are in alpha
version. That leads me to believe that the packagers of audacity for
*your* distro customized it in order to get it to compile.  It isn't
surprising you didn't find these libraries on the web.

The error you are getting is indicative of a change in API for a
library.  I see that you are using gtk2, and the latest version of gtk
is 3.  Since gtk3 is an extensive rewrite of gtk2, and gtk2 is no
longer being maintained, this is probably the cause of your problem.
Why didn't the configure pick this up?  Because it probably checks a
gtk2 function that did

Re: Need Libraries (libstdc++, libc, libm)

Bob van der Poel — 2012-05-20T17:11:28

Being lazy and not having read this thread completely ... do you have
the "dev" versions of the needed libraries installed. For example, on
ubuntu, there is a libstdc++ and libstdc++-dev (version numbers
omitted). To compile programs you need the "dev" versions.

On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Bruce Alan <pinetreembr< at >gmail.com> wrote:

Re: Need Libraries (libstdc++, libc, libm)

Bruce Alan — 2012-05-20T04:10:54

OK...  First off, Thank You Gale for your response.
Seems I have come full circle now, as the distro people
considered my questions about trying to get the needed
libraries as "whining", the suggestion was:

"TRY A DIFFERENT DISTRO"

What a concept !!!   A distro with the needed libraries,
or a central repository to house them, instead of having
to google all over the internet and cobble them together
from different locations...  I must be KRAZY !!!
Hell...  Maybe I ought to go back to MSDOS...

So I figured, those that actually wrote and use the program
would probably have access to the three library files I need
to make the program (Audacity v2.0.0) run, should be just the
normal Slackware v13.37 libraries, but I was unable to locate
any such thing via google or any other engine, so I'm instead
pointed back to those friendly people in the distro IRC (sic).
(No Thank You)

So..  I d/l the full source code, as instructed by Gale
(thank you again Gale), and I am reminded why I don't do
compiling as much as I

Fwd: Looping audio - 1.3.14-beta WindowsXP

Chris Edwards — 2012-05-20T03:20:38

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Chris Edwards <cedwards155< at >gmail.com>
Date: Sat, May 19, 2012 at 4:07 PM
Subject: Looping audio - 1.3.14-beta
To: feedback< at >audacityteam.org


Gentlemen:

I have written before, but I think to the wrong address.

I am delighted with your product and use it frequently. I have only one
problem and a 'nice to have' request.


   - I attach mp3 audio tracks to my slide shows using Audacity 1.3, but if
   there is not enough 'silence' at the end it, (not the slide show), will
   start to replay even though looping is not checked.
   - It would be great to have the flexibility to have fractions of seconds
   for image viewing time. This would improve the synchronization with the
   audio.

Thank you,

Chris Edwards
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