Audacity Forum

For the record, x is a variable, so 2.x means any version 2.0.0 - 3.0.0.

Anyway, try uninstalling and reinstalling Audacity. Something somewhere probably went terribly wrong (it's probably not your fault, don't worry) and so a fresh install should clean it up.

HOLD ON WHAT

It just started working for no reason.

Well, thanks for your help...

The indications were that the volume meters for the devices in sound manager were blank, even when I was causing the clipping LEDs to go off on the Audiobox (also, I should note that the box is USB, not FireWire - it has no such capabilities). Also, the Audiobox VSL (it controls the DSP on the Audio...

I have tried everything in the manual and some googles (otherwise I wouldn't be posting :-P ). Rescan does nothing as the devices are in the list and selectable, they just hang Audacity and then error when attempted to use. I tried both hosts, DirectSound crashed Audacity so I switched back to MME. ...

You need an external sound card/audio device that supports five inputs, then somehow rig Audacity to record all five simultaneously. I have a PreSonus Audiobox, but Audacity won't take more than two inputs simultaneously...

That's called sequencing audio. Audacity doesn't do this, it only edits audio. Use wonderful freeware like MODPlug Tracker to sequence and export it to Audacity for mixing & mastering (that's what I do).

Use the 'Compressor' effect. I use the following settings:

Hello, I recently purchased a new computer (or rather, built a new computer :-D ) and went about reinstalling all my audio equipment. One of these is Audacity. However, whenever I attempt to record in Audacity, it hangs for about a minute and then tells me that there was an error opening the sound d...

Well ok then, I unchecked that. I seriously have no clue why it was checked in the first pace. Well, at least I now know what it does!

Hello again, I have been encountering an odd problem recently: When I go to select audio, Audacity automatically quantizes the selection to some random (but constant) amount. (It's actually .001 seconds, but since I work on a sample-by sample basis a lot, it's much too much.) So I can no longer sele...