James, there is a difference between selecting a track and selecting all or
some of the audio on the track. Having used Enter to select the track, to
apply an effect you then need to select all or some of the audio on the track.
David’s suggestion of using ctrl-a ensured that you had some audio selected.
If, for example, you want to adjust the level of a portion of the track or
apply an effect to just a portion, you do not want to select everything. There
has been quite a bit of to and fro on the list recently about selecting audio.
If you have deleted those emails, ask again and/or check through the Audacity
menus and the manual.
To summarise, having selected the track with the Enter key, you then need to
select some or all of the audio on the track in order to apply an effect.
Andrew
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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 <mailto:gsasner@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2017 9:40 PM
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Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Audacity will not recognize the effects that
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Doesn't select all select the entire file no matter how many tracks are in the
file?
Gene
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Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2017 9:22 PM
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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 <mailto:drbailes@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2017 10:43 AM
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Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Audacity will not recognize the effects that
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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
<mailto: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 <mailto:drbailes@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2017 4:11 AM
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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
<mailto: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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