Audacity Forum

Obviously, your computer hates "e."
Koz

A bang isn't a standard character. Koz

Simple if good. Disconnect other sound devices and close additional software. We can't tell what kind of computer you're on because you didn't say so, and you posted in a portion of the forum that doesn't say, either. I'm typing on a Mac Mini, OS-X 10.6.8. What are you doing? You also missed one imp...

Please assist with the very BASICS This isn't "basic." Batch capturing shows, editing them, and exporting to a particular folder or directory and/or interacting with other programs is an advanced process. That's one of the reasons nobody came galloping to your rescue. I can give you diagn...

I have 126 GB free in the partition That may be the phrase that pays. "Normal" users have no idea what a partition is much less knowing that they have one -- or two -- or more. How many do you have? Edit > Preferences > Directories. Does that point to a clear, healthy partition? Audacity ...

Firewire Drive? Absolutely. I do it all the time. USB Drive? Definite maybe. USB has a global reputation in video circles for not being up to the rigors of capture. It's just too sloppy, or it was in the earlier incantations. If you have the newer USB3 and a USB3 drive, then you're probably OK, but ...

when i play a track, record a new one below it, the first bleeds in. If you're overdubbing, recording one instrument after another to build up a band, you have to be careful to record an actual device like Mic-In or USB Sound Device, and not a magic device like Stereo-Mix or WAV-Out. Also you shoul...

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Newer computers can make it difficult or impossible to self-record. For them, there is Total Recorder which is a money-based program that can record streaming sound.

Koz

A word on Latency. There are two of them and you can only adjust one. Recording Latency is the one where you sing in perfect time to your backing track and adjust Audacity so the two performances do, in fact, match. If you're having trouble hearing yourself during the live performance, that's the ot...

Do you have the other two? Pluck and Risset Drum? Koz