I have been using Audacity ver.2.0 for a while now. Last week I upgraded to the current version, 2.1.1.
I did this initially because I fowanted to experiment with adding some reverb to a dry vocal sbd track to mix with stage mics source. (I had researched a bit and knew that the vberb effect on the earlier version wasn’t so great.
I surely like the improvements in the update, but am lost on how to best perform the ‘change speed’ effect that I have up to now utilized when synching tracks from different recorders.
I have been paying attention to discussions here regarding changing speed, and its correlation to pitch, but so far in my somewhat limited experience have not felt the need to get deeper when mixing a @ 1 – 1:15 hour set.
I line up at the beginning, add and join whatever space is needed (copy/paste/generate silence) to the beginning of the track that is shifted over to the right so they start the same.
Then I find a common point as close to the end as is feasible, note the samples from each track, divide the larger by the smaller, remove the ‘1’ and two decimal places, and enter that number in the (version2.0) ‘change speed’ percentage box. (I hope I explained that properly – it has worked well for me.)
Sometimes that percentage would be 13 decimal places long. With the newer version, I can’t seem to enter a percentage change past the thousands place (.00x)
I am hoping someone has some experience with this version, and can offer suggestions. I see that there is the opportunity to ‘change length', but can’t figure that out.
Thanks for any insight. Dan