Audacity Forum

Sudden, unexplained computer insanity can be caused by your hard drive filling up. When you press Stop, Audacity has to do some serious file management and will crash if there's not enough room. -- Right Click Start > Explore > Right Click Local Drive C: > Properties (Used, Remaining) 20% free space...

I'm going to ask the producer all of these questions, as I simply don't know, and return when he responds.

Weren't you the recording engineer?

Koz

MIDI isn't music. MIDI is machine control. So you would have a sound connection from your keyboard to the sound card and -- assuming your computer has a Stereo Line-In and not just a Mic-In -- you would set up Audacity to record that. What you did was set up Audacity to record Mix-Out or something s...

i got the meters working n all but when i record it starts clipping and the bass seems heavy.. i turned down the bass on my mixer at a point where i can still here enough bass to mix but doesnt seem to fix the problem.. any idea why this may be happening? thanks for the all help btw! Are you sure t...

You have to make sure that your computer is seeing the UCA-202 in Windows Control Panels. If everything is OK, you can open Audacity and click once in the red record meters and they will wake up and monitor the input signal without sending Audacity into full record. You need to have both bouncing re...

Not all computers have these settings available. Macs don't do this at all, and modern Windows machines can make this seriously difficult. If you're on a Mac you can use the SoundFlower artificial sound device and for Windows, you can use Total Recorder.

Koz

Did the software come with any capture modules or tools? You might be able to set your machine up to "Record Music Playing on the Computer," but that's generally used for recording YouTube or performances like that. http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Recording_audio_playing_on_the_computer ...

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Koz

You join a long liszt of people wanting to duplicate the studio environment in your house. It's rough to do. The studio probably paid $100 for the cables in the studio. A good microphone comes in around $500 to $1000 -- each --and the sound mixer is anybody's guess, but it wasn't cheap. What you get...

Where to start. How about here: Audacity 1.2 is very old and no longer supported, patched, corrected, or updated. Audacity 1.2 can be unstable on newer computers. Download and install the latest Audacity 1.3 from here... http://audacityteam.org/download/ You can install both audacity 1.2 and Audacit...