Questions tagged [software]
Software is used in digital computer systems - Hardware is a physical electronic device. I.e. You can have software installed on hardware. Use to indicate a preference for a software solution, i.e. computer-based.
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Looking for (preferaby free) sofware that can pan an input signal while recording to a stereo track
To explain - I am an actor. I like to learn my lines by recording myself reading everyone else's lines on the right track, and all my lines on the left track.
That way, on playback, I can mute the ...
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How can I see the BPM evolution in a DJ set?
There are many program to infer the BPM of a track, e.g. Rekordbox and Traktor. They give one BPM for the entire track. How can I see the BPM evolution in a DJ set? (by see, I mean e.g. plot BPM vs. ...
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How to bootleg live concert using android phone? [closed]
I am planning on recording a live concert in 32 bit float 192khz sampling rate stereo using an android phone What app should I use? How do I prevent the audio from clipping? Thanks.
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DIY Active Noise Cancellation?
I wanted to perform an experiment with Active Noise Cancellation. I've downloaded a song from YouTube. I converted it to .wav using FFmpeg. Then I negated it using sox:
sox -v -1 song3.wav song3-...
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How does Opus know how many channels are encoded?
I've looked at the RFC but it's not explicit how channels are encoded. Are channels implicitly associated with frames in a VBR Code 3 packet? I can see a stereo flag in the format but it's not clear ...
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Is there a software that allows replaying pre-saved fader positions?
I'm designing an upgrade to an existing sound system, with the goal of simplicity for the operator. I've got a strong computer background, and a modest (mainly car) audio background.
I've done some ...
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Audio format that keeps separate tracks
I'm looking for a way to render a 4-channel audio file where the channels are mapped to stereo, that is, two of the channels play on the right channel and two on the left.
When I make a 4-channel file ...
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How can I play music at more than 10 locations while controlling them all from one place?
I was tasked with finding a way to play music in more than 10 super markets, all are in different locations (which all of them are on the same network and being controlled from the HQ).
The question ...
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Are there any programs that can ‘losslessly’ do range compression on MP3 files? (Or other lossy-compressed formats)
I occasionally bump into audio with ‘whisper and explosions’, namely podcasts and audiobooks—and need to do range compression to listen more comfortably. I can do that with a variety of apps that ...
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Software for managing field recordings
Currently, all of my hundreds of sound files from field recordings are simply titled with a date and time, and I've done my best to describe their contents in the Comments field in Finder. This is ...
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I need help with Steinberg ur22 interface on Mint Linux
I have a Steinberg ur22 mk2, but they do not support it on Mint Linux. Where can I find compatible drivers?
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Modify voice recording so that the original voice cannot be recovered
I have a voice recording. I want to modify it to have a different voice but to keep the intonational shifts and the pauses between the words. I want to be sure that the original voice cannot be ...
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How would I configure huge custom surround setup playback in Windows?
Suppose I have nine sets of stereo speakers spread around the room, each connected to the other in the set, as indicated in the diagram:
(assuming each of the speakers is an identical model)
Assuming ...
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What is the easiest way to create 5.1 sound effects (sound panning from one channel to another)
I need to create a simple 10 second sound file, where:
0-1s: tone plays in (and only in) Front-Left channel
1-2s: tone plays in (and only in) Front-Right channel
2-3s: tone plays in (..) Left-Rear ...
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Automatically split audio before and after music
I have an audio file of a person answering several questions. Between each answer, there are seven seconds of music before the person starts to speak again. The audio is originally from a video and ...
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How to do unattended recording
I am trying to record audio from a microphone connected to my computer for a duration of several hours, but I need to start and stop the recording without human intervention (I am using cron jobs).
I ...
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How to delete after last marker without pausing the recording?
I'm recording a voiceover for a slide show in an Adobe Audition multi-track session. For each slide, I often need multiple attempts to get a good take.
To mark the boundaries between slides and parts ...
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Guitar gain and noise setup for amp sim
I'm looking at recording DI guitar and I have a few questions regarding setup input levels and dealing with noise.
My current setup:
Ibanez RG321MHE (EMG h4 passive humbuckers)
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Route standard Windows audio (MME, WASAPI, etc.) through specific ASIO device channels?
(apologies if this is off-topic for this forum - I looked around and this seemed the most appropriate!)
I have an audio interface / mixer (Zoom Livetrak L-8) with support for 2 independent stereo ...
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How difficult is real-time software "noise cancellation" using two input sources
Good active noise-cancellation technology costs money, but delivers great value. I'm wondering if I can obtain half the value at tenth of the price by hacking together something myself. This is for a ...
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Guitar rig settings to get a deathcore sound on guitar
I am trying to make a deathcore sound on guitar rig software for guitar but cannot find something decent.
I tried downloading some presets but either they weren't good enough or they were not ...
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Recording sound and getting the frequency of any given point
Not entirely sure if this question goes on this site, but I think it covers this one more than the others.
I need to record some audio of human speech and find the frequency of the audio at least 100 ...
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Exploring specific frequency distributions?
I have looked at several options for synthesizer software, and everything I have been able to find myself has an inconvenient amount of abstraction for what I want. I think I can manage with CSound, ...
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How do I simultaneously play audio on 35 speakers?
I am working on a college research project to test audio spatialization. The project involves playing audio on 35 different speakers. One speaker is randomly selected to play slightly different audio. ...
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How to quickly understand the layout in various digital console
Well i don't know if am asking this question on the right platform but anyways i can't help it so I'll still put it through. With the rapid growth in digital processing from various manufacturers ...
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No VST rendering on Tracktion T7 Waveform 11 free
I'm using LABS VST instrument plugin on a MIDI track in Tracktion T7 Waveform 11 free. I'm working on Windows 10, on a ACER Aspire V Nitro Black Edition Laptop, native soundcard.
I can hear the VST ...
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Voice recording marking software
I have a corpus of recorded interviews and would like know what Windows 7 software (preferably commercial because it will be bought by administration of my institution, which is a bit reluctant to ...
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Making dialogue in a film louder in post production
I am new to this forum so forgive me if this has already been answered!
I was wondering if there is any way to make dialogue in a film louder, separating it from background noise without using an ...
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Cartoon sync studio equipment
Im thinking in buying equipment specially for this sort of work. Is there any specialised software for this job or studios use most popular ones that we all use in every day work?
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Tool to fix rapid-fire dropouts?
I recorded a phone call and the cell service was pretty shoddy. Here's an example. Good briefly, then high-speed dropouts, then good again.
In the below image, you can see the dropouts to the right ...
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How do I detect the sound files used in an audio file?
There is an audio file with a soundtrack, SFXs, and voice-overs. I have all of these included elements separately as original audio files.
I need to detect which file is used in what point (...
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Denoising studio induced noise and noise due to poor recording
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Cassette tapes of speeches have been made in 2000 in locations which are not studio like environs for recording (i.e. contain various sources of noise such as fans, folks moving about, ...
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Subtract music from microphone input while recording
I do have a Soundblaster 5/rx with a line-in, my mixer has an aux-return (and if that does not what I think it does, it has a headphone out too which I could use).
The signal that is sent to the ...
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What is the difference between Audacity's dB and MP3Gain's dB?
I've read that Audacity can also do MP3Gain's job to normalize multiple tracks, but while in MP3Gain the target volume is something like 89.0 dB or 95.0 dB in Audacity the maximum is 0 and it goes ...
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Is there a software tool or web service to detect problems in speech recordings?
I am looking for a software/library or a web service/API that can detect problems in short samples of recordings of speech.
For example echo, clipping, pop, background noise...
Do you know of any ...
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Best way to control audio in dual (same LAN) locations from one spot.
Currently we have one office that I run music through in this order Pandora-->PC-->amp-->speakers. Pretty simple.
However, We've added a separate building 300' away that shares the same LAN. I'm ...
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Sound Library Organizer for Linux?
I'm looking for a sound library organizer working on Linux and capable of handling several thousands of SFX files.
The software I found until now are mostly players with some built-in management ...
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Emulating StarWars X-Wing Recv Communications Effect
I'm curious the best method to mock the effect used in the voice communications of the X-Wing and other ships that were garbled when received,
There is some kind of modulation going on if I'm not ...
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What is the best way to change the voice from male to female (instantly)?
There are some software solutions as well as vocal performers.
Anyway, it is unclear if vocal performer can produce any effect which would be impossible to get using software (if it modifies sound in ...
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Open source software/library/tool/patch/... for converting audio to MIDI suggestions?
Having found 2 open source tools that can convert any audio file to midi, I'm still interested if there are others (for comparison).
I've tried WaoN and Audio_to_midi_melodia.
But not all samples ...
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Audio recording software, continues recording during playback
I wish to more fully develop some music I've roughly sketched out. I have an idea for the kind of program I'd like to use - if such a program already exists, I'll use that, otherwise, I may write my ...
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Voice recording editing software
I have some 3gpp recordings that I need to enhance. I would like to give more balance to the left stereo and change the frequency levels to make the recording clearer and convert it all to mp3 or wav. ...
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Which software can simulate room reverb and response?
I would like to roughly estimate the behaviour of my living room as it is now and with some sound absorbing elements, such as bass traps, Helmholtz panels and/or resonators, skyline diffusers.
The ...
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Software for very precise tempo/note duration
For an experiment, I need to write a sequence of notes where each note has a very special duration such as 1.728 seconds =~ 34.72222 bpm.
I want to be as precise as possible, and I also want to know ...
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MIDI noise and latency problems
I have just bought a Roland A49 MIDI controller.
I'm using Reaper as my DAW. I've installed the drivers, and I know that my controller is talking to my DAW, as I am getting a correct red signal ...
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Midi to .wav conversion
I'm looking for a program that turns my short MIDI-sequences into .wav files. That in itself isn't the problem, tho. The problem is that most programs append 1 or 2 seconds of silence at the end of ...
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Built-in Line Output to Interface Line Input on a Mac
How can I play audio on a Mac (10.11) in a 3d party software instrument (eg. Arturia Synth), piping it through the built-in line out, into an analog effects pedal, then record that as an input through ...
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Storageformat for audiobooks
So, I want to apologize in advance if this is not the right place for this question, but it was the most appropriate SE-site I could find (possibly apart from SuperUser).
I have acquired quite a few ...
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Tool for creating a WAV given a function of time/sample
What software could I use to create a WAV file from a function of sample number?
I am building an implementation of Group Additive Synthesis in a modular softsynth and I just need a simple way of ...
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How to Play Audio in Realtime in LMMS?
Changing the tempo directly (globally) or via an automation track only affects the readout and doesn't change the actual tempo, which seems to default to 140 BPM.
Is there a way I can get it to play ...
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