Audacity Forum

there is simply no way that Audacity can provide support to directly interface with the audio hardware for hundreds of different sound cards on multiple operating systems I don´t get the point. Audacity can record stereo from any sound card without supporting any direct interface to hundreds of dif...

Audacity simply should have a drop down box for the channel selection in the preferences where the recording device can be selected, where, in case a stereo device is selected, not only "mono" or "stereo" can be selected but "stereo", "mono (left)", "mono (right)" and maybe also "mono (mix)" are sel...

Providing that the drivers support this, you should then get just the mono channel that you are using. But the driver doesn´t. I simply want to record a mono track from the left or right channel of a stereo interface. Now i can go and blame M-Audio for not being able to define wether i want to have...

No, that´s not what i usually want. I use for example a M-Audio Firewire 410 Audio interface which has two mic inputs which are on the software side the left and right channels of a single stereo interface called "Line 1/2". I don´t think that this constellation is somewhat exotic.

Hi, same problem. As a workaround splitting the channel might be ok, but normally one should be able to select if Audacity records "stereo", "mono (left channel)" or "mono (right channel)" if one has a stereo input. The manual splitting has to be done over and over again for every recording. This is...