Audacity Forum

OK. that solved it. Exporting (I'm using aiff file format) also allows editing upon re-opening - not an enabled function as recorded. Thanks so much for all your troubles. Though, Audacity and GemSound could save you a lot of time helping people online if they included some user manuals. Also, the C...

OK. That works. Now, when opened after exporting (I'm using aiff file format), Audacity also allows editing. Didn't do that after recording. Again, much thanks for your troubles. Though, that would be greatly lessened if the CD that came with my GemSound unit, presumably direct from Audacity, weren'...

restarted Audacity. everything seems to be working.

thanks much for the help.

have a nice day!


Oh. well. it seemed to be working. waves showing on the record bars. but playback? seems Audacity cannot find about 100 temp files. Sorry we lost your session. pleas try again later....

did all that. still no go.


why did i buy this hardware/software again?


when someone asks me what software I recommend for doing this....

I reconnected the GemSound device directly, and no longer through a hub, and got sound input to register in the Audio panel under preferences. I confirmed all the settings to mimic those posted in Audacity's help section (though, there is a loop in the link to OS X problems that returns you to the t...

Thanks for the response. You said what none of the posted material covered, about the meter reading the input sound on the Mac. Sure enough, there's no signal coming in. Must be a hardware problem with the GemSound unit. I'll give them a call.

Nice screenshot.

Thanks again.

checked posts for last five pages. no answers. Mac dual PowerPC G5, first Generation, OS X 10.5. Just bought GenSound's PL-USB Audio Interface Pre-Amp. My Mac reads the enclosed Audacity CD as blank, so, downloaded 1.2.6 from website. Software will open (but, curiously, will not show version info). ...