Audio refers broadly to the information, be it acoustic or electronic, entering, traversing, or exiting some medium.
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An open source sound editor, but not Audacity?
I am looking for open source/free software for casual sound editing.
I've tried audacity, I know it's capable tool but really I dont like the interface.
Tried snd, can't get it to work.
I am looking ...
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Vectorized audio? Does it exist? Its pros and cons? Which formats?
In grahpics-design, vectorized content are much easier to work with version-control rather than raster images: much smaller space so more fit to Git -style version-controlling. Can I do it somehow ...
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What options do I have for sharing a large audio project with several collaborators over the Internet?
I developed a soundtrack that is about 3 minutes long but it is massive, over 300MB in size. I'd like to share this project and collaborate with other users. However, revision control systems aimed at ...
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Fix for terrible “Hard Drive Noise” Audio Interference?
When recording direct input instrument audio using Ableton, my recording is plagued with a terrible noise interference that sounds like the clicks and movements of my PCs internal Hard Disk drive. ...
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Removal of voice from single track in audacity
Recently I've been recording some game commentary with a friend. We both have our own computers and headsets. Our plans were to swap our voice tracks and edit them in to each others videos, so we'd ...
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Where to find free music
I need to put together an documentary/informational video. It's being submitted for a competition, so I don't know if I can use CC-SA or CC-NC-SA works like Magnatune. Where can I find CC-BY licenced ...
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Management: how to develop/deploy audio -material? Large -files, separated -files or some other solution?
I develop a large dev -file usually over 300MB easily. Then I categorize it and break it into parts (A) such as shouting, laughing, smiling and other descriptive things. This pieced material belongs ...
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Are there free records of separate piano notes in .wav files for instance?
I'm trying to find some piano sound bank -for my childish experiments with sound - the most desired form is of course a number of .wav files, each one corresponding to a piano key - being a record of ...
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How can I add mp3 audio to an mp4 video?
I have been sent a video clip from our latest gig, but it was taken on a small camcorder and the bass has overloaded the sound. Luckily I have a studio version at the same speed that I can use.
I ...
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Is it a good idea to use headphones for audio production?
Is it generally a good idea to use headphones in the production/mixing of audio?
And what can I do if my speakers are terrible (e.g. laptop speakers), and I'm on a shoestring budget?
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Normalising volume across thousands of files
For a project I'm working on, I need to produce approx 5000 voice-only recordings of approx 15 seconds each (typically each file is a couple of short sentences spoken aloud). I've approached this as ...
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What to fix first, audio or video?
I have made a short timelapse of some nature phenomena. I would like to add ambient-like background music to it with Ableton Live. Both the timelapse and the music are (going to be) made by me, the ...
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Automatically synchronizing audio/video with FOSS tools?
At our hackerspace, we have a full HD video camera (Toshiba Camileo X200) with a crappy microphone input. Therefore, we use a Thomann SC450 USB microphone to capture audio on a computer. Buying new ...
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How does one call the y axis of a waveform?
In many audio applications one can find a waveform representation, but the y-axis normally is never labelled.
Now, if you would plot your own waveform and wanted to label it, what would be a correct ...
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What is the best way to distribute an audio/video feed from a computer to TVs over existing indoor coax cable?
We have existing coax cable in our office building and we'd like to put displays in our lobby and some other rooms in the office (where there are existing coax jacks). We'd like these displays all ...
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Where can I find resources for self-learning of audio-video production concepts
My father has an audio-video production studio that I wanted to inherit. However, I majored in computer science and have no clue whatsoever about how audio and video production works. The problem here ...
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How is it possible to hear something at 44.1Khz?
Since our hearing range is said to be 20Hz to 20,000Hz. So, how can we possibly hear something at 44.1Khz? Or do we hear only half of the sound produced at 44.1Khz by any audio CDs? What is going on?
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“Subtracting” specific audio using an Isolated track from the same mix.
I have an audio file (Music + Vocals) and I have an instrumental (Music Only). Is there a program or some way I can take the music file and subtract the instrumental leaving only the vocals? (Full ...
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Simple free program to add audio to video?
I am looking for a small free tool that will allow me to add some audio to my video. Windows movie maker doesn't seem to work well from some reason.
Any recommendations?
