Thank you everyone for your helpful, and valuable guidance! I think that I’m
getting a handle on the “selecting” process now. LOLL Its ironic because
right now I am not performing any type of editing on only a section of a track,
so I saved the E-mails that addressed this issue for me to study later. And
low and behold, I now know that I would have saved myself a lot of frustration
if I would have studied this material more closely.
So now I’m on to finding out what my next issue is! *Ha-Ha-Ha*
Respectfully,
James
From: David Bailes
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2017 8:06 AM
To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Audacity will not recognize the effects that
loaded with it...
Hi James,
just a few words about selection in audacity to go alongside what Andrew has
already said, and hopefully not add any confusion.
Say you have a couple of tracks, and you want to apply the fade in effect to
the first 3 seconds of the second track. To specify the audio you want the
effect applied to, you have to specify both which tracks, in this case the
second track, and the time range, in this case from 0 to 3 seconds.
So selecting audio in Audacity consists in selecting both one or more tracks,
and selecting a time range.
You can toggle the selectedness of tracks by pressing enter, and there are
loads of ways of selecting time ranges. Some of these have been covered in
recents posts and Andrew's recent recording.
Incidentally, the command to select all audio (ctrl+A), selects all the tracks,
and selects a time range which covers all the audio in the tracks.
David.
On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 3:50 AM, James Kelm <jameskelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear Gene & all...
As far as I know, at least this is how things work with other
applications, when you do a control A for select all, you will be selecting all
of the tracks regardless of how many your project has. My own confusion comes
from only having one track while I was experimenting. I thought that if I only
had one track, then I would get the same resolt whether I simply pressed enter
to select my track, or if I pressed Control A to select all tracks. After all,
I only had the one track. But v there is a difference, because pressing enter
to select my track did not open up the effects, but pressing a control A
(select all) did open them up. Computers... So much to learn, so little time!
LOLL
James
From: Gene
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2017 9:40 PM
To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Audacity will not recognize the effects that
loaded with it...
Doesn't select all select the entire file no matter how many tracks are in
the file?
Gene
----- Original Message -----
From: James Kelm
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2017 9:22 PM
To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Audacity will not recognize the effects that
loaded with it...
Dear David,
Thank you for your great suggestion, although it has now led me to feel
rather silly! LOLL
My effects are working fine now, and I am slowly getting my DAWS
completely set up. I had been recording a track, and then pressing the enter
key to select it. When I checked, it said that it was selected. By doing this
I could raise and lower the track’s volume, move its panning settings, etc. I
could work with the selected track, but I couldn’t use any of the effects.
After reading David’s response, I decided to try something. With the first
track that I had recorded, rather than simply pressing the enter key to select,
I did a select all. Even though I only had a single track, I still did a
select all. Then suddenly everything started working! All of my effects were
there, and life became good! *smile* I don’t know why a select all would do
something that pressing the enter key would not do, but it’s all working now.
Thank you David!
Respectfully,
James
From: David Bailes
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2017 10:43 AM
To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Audacity will not recognize the effects that
loaded with it...
Hi James,
did you try pressing ctrl+A? This selects all the tracks, and selects a time
range - you have to do both to select audio.
David.
On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 4:37 PM, James Kelm <jameskelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear David,
I have selected an audio track and double checked it to make sure that
it is selected. But Audacity still will not make any effects available. It’s
really strange, because I can go to the Audacity Plug-Ins folder in Program
Files, and all the effects are there. I would have thought that perhaps there
was a conflict between Audacity and the effect files, but they are the actual
effect files that came with my Audacity.
James
From: David Bailes
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2017 4:11 AM
To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Audacity will not recognize the effects that
loaded with it...
Hi James,
could you just check whether the problem is that you have no audio
selected. If you press Ctrl+A to select all the audio, are the items in the
Effect menu now available?
David.
On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 7:15 PM, James Kelm <jameskelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Howdy...
Well apparently I have an issue that is defeating me, and I hope that
one of you can help me out.
My problem is simply that when I install Audacity 2.0.6 onto a
computer with XP Professional, it installs really well. I have now installed
and uninstalled Audacity a bunch of different times, and I have tried a bunch
of different versions. Audacity 2.1.3 will load on the computer, but when I
try to start the program I get an error message that says that Audacity has
failed to initialize properly, and it then just goes away. I have loaded
several things that was supposed to fix this issue, but non of them have
helped. This is why I am working with Audacity 2.0.6 on the specific XP
Professional laptop.
So now 2.0.6 is working very well, and I'm happy. I'm learning
Audacity, and am really loving it! My problem is that everything that is
listed in the Effects menu is, unavailable. I have gone to Program Files in
Windows to the Audacity folder, and there has been two folders that were
created when I installed Audacity. One of the folders is called Plug-Ins, and
the other folder has the name of a particular type of effect file, but I can't
remember what it is, and can not get to the laptop in question right now. But
when I have looked in these two folders, there are a bunch of effect files. I
have done a search, and did not find any other Plug-Ins folders, or anything
else that I thought may be confusing Audacity. I have gone to the Preferences
section of Audacity and have made sure that all of the effect types are
checked, as well as the check box that allows Audacity to search for effect
files the next time it is started. It actually comes up with a screen that
says that it is loading files, but when it is finished and I land on the track
view, I have no effects that are functioning. I have made sure that one of my
sound files is selected, but nothing seems to work. It is frustrating because
Audacity is working great, other than for the fact that it will not make
friends with the effects that were with it when I installed Audacity.
Help!!!
James
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