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When using variable bitrate settings, it is up to the user to set the range. Only the user knows if the file contains a lot of silence or is low complexity (solo instrument) or high complexity (whole orchestra/band). Thanks Chris. I understand that this is how things work right now, but my "tw...

Hi Jake. You are reading the dialog correctly. What it tells us is that although the _average_ volume of the file is very low it contains some transients that would get clipped if you tried to increase the average volume more than ~1.3%. You can verify this by going into the Maximize Volume dialog a...

Can you play an existing audio file in GoldWave?

According to the support page here the latest version of the driver is

Creative Sound Blaster Audigy series driver 2.18.0017

Is that the version you are using?

Hi Jake. The good news is that the really quiet file apparently has lots of headroom so if you want to increase its average volume then clipping is not likely to be a problem. The bad news is that with such low levels if there is any noise in that waveform it will be amplified along with the signal ...

Hmm, I don't see anything there that looks particularly unusual (from my somewhat limited experience, at least). It's possible that something in one of the recent Microsoft updates changed the WDM code in such a way that it broke "What U Hear", intentionally or otherwise. You might try usi...

In GoldWave, choose Options > Control Properties..., choose the "System" tab, and click the "Information" button. That should copy a list of your current settings onto the Windows clipboard. Paste that information into a reply here so we can have a look.

Recording 'what you hear' has just stopped working for no apparent reason. I read somewhere that ms was disabling this facility, could it be they have done this via updates just received for win7? I got the big batch of Microsoft updates for Windows 7 earlier this week and my Stereo Mix input is st...

Another thought: If you want to keep "Update default effect settings after each use" enabled you could always use the procedure above (delete intermediate points, etc.) to create a preset called "Flat". Then you could create a new shape and when you apply it the "new mess&qu...

First you need to go back and review the thread you started ~3 months ago here . One of the suggestions for making the newer version of GoldWave behave like the older versions was to enable the "Update default effect settings after each use" option under Options > Window... . Now, look you...

I have been using Roxio for the last 10 yrs. Older version on XP computer. Just got a new Win 7 computer and cannot use my old Roxio music files. If I get Goldwave can I edit and play RXS ( roxio) files? If so, is there anything special that I need to do to use the RXS files? I sort of doubt it. Se...

You asked the same question 4 years ago here. Nothing has changed substantially since then.

It will be interesting to see how GoldWave performs in Windows 8 environment. I just installed 32-bit Windows 8 on an older notebook (Dell Inspiron, 3 or 4 years old). Windows 8 itself seems to be running fine; surprisingly quick, in fact, but it was running Vista before so I may have just been acc...

Specifically, I'm curious as to whether the same resampling algorithm can be used for both "on the fly" recording and for processing after the fact. I'm pretty sure that's done by the drivers (not GoldWave). And, I assume it done by the Microsoft-supplied part of the "driver stack&qu...

Thanks, cdeamaze. The OP was asking about how resampling worked "on the fly" while recording a new sound. Having read the thread you cited I'm now curious about that too, as DewDude420's comment said that there's a "ton of math" involved in [doing a good job of] resampling. Speci...