Audacity Forum

We should also consider that people have unrealistic expectations for recording in the field. No recorder is going to give good results from the back of the lecture hall or at the bus stop. This American Life gets all those terrific interviews by hand-holding a normally long-distance shotgun microph...

Audacity doesn't to anything in real time past some timer and chain jobs. So Something Else is doing this to "help you." You should go into Windows Control Panels and turn off Windows Enhanced Services. http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_recording_troubleshooting.html#enhancements Th...

Are you reinstalling Audacity 2.0.3? During the installations, did Audacity ask you if you wanted to completely blow away the old installation, or keep the preferences? Audacity default is to keep your old operating environment and so "reinstalling" usually doesn't do a thing. But I think ...

Is it still missing if you plug in the Focusrite and then restart Audacity?

Koz

Either download should be able to connect to a USB device.

Apple (upper left) > System Preferences > Hardware > Sound > Input. Is your Focusrite listed there? If you select and play something, does the blue ball sound meter bounce?

Koz

See that skipping piece. Skipping is usually some step in the process not going fast enough for live audio. It drops bits or samples here and there. As you record anything, the computer slows down, usually imperceptibly, but if you have some condition right on the edge of failure, a simple recording...

Did you try "spotlighting" the name of the plugins? If you hover over a hit, the system will give you the path. You can try resetting Audacity. http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq.html Scroll down to Installation and Plugins. There is also a method using the latest Audacity installer....

I keep a folder with all old downloads in it /Installers-Keys-Settings and sometimes Audacity will find stuff in there that I had not intended. Also, OS-X has a /Users/Downloads folder that can trap tools and filters.

Koz

Are you doing this as an overdubbing task? Audacity > Edit > Preferences > Recording > [X] Overdubbing (select) Audacity > Edit > Preferences > Recording > [_] Playthrough (deselect) That should play your existing tracks to you while you record new ones. You also need to set Recording Latency when y...

I guess you could try hi and lo pass. Assuming the show is already in stereo, drop-down on the left of the track > Split Stereo Track. Click just above MUTE on the top track and Effect > High-Pass Filter, 1000Hz Click just above MUTE on the bottom one one and Effect > Low-Pass Filter, 1000Hz Drop-do...