Audacity Forum

Audacity can have pretty shaky support for plugins. One thing that suffers almost immediately is that Audacity doesn't pass on the user interface. So if you're used to a tool with cherubs, Gucci leather, Corinthian columns, and chocolate sprinkles on top, Audacity may only give you a simple slider a...

Yes, and I actually use it that way. Or used to. Did any of these activities slow the forum down? I wanted to wait until I got to work and different connections to confirm this, but it takes longer for the forum to arrive than it used to. Is the forum bigger or maybe it loads more packages or someth...

While you have it open, can you capture anything and play simple sounds? http://www.kozco.com/tech/soundtests.html Pull down any of the three piano clips and see if they play. They're really short and guaranteed correct. Do you have a lot of External Stuff hanging from your machine? USB Turntable? U...

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CPU Activity 100%

Lather, Rinse, Repeat

Head And Shoulders Shampoo Programming? That was a standing joke when I was learning computers--on vacuum tubes.

Koz

We're assuming you have some of your show on the timeline and it looks something like this... http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/Audacity1_playback.jpg Click anywhere inside the blue waves and drag sideways and that portion of the show will become selected. All the tools should wake up when you do that....

You write like you're right on top of all this. We have to divine a lot from not only what the poster says, but the way he/she says it. Basically, close everything, unplug the USB turntable and restart the computer. Have you ever been in Mac Preferences? Click on the little Apple in the upper left. ...

<<<Yes, I am using a USB turntable..>>> While I don't necessarily think that's the problem this time because of the nature of the complaint, it could be. USB Turntables--also known as "Use Once And Throw Away Turntables" have a reputation on the forum for creating Unstable Systems when the...

<<<Most of this is going right over my head haha.>>> OK, if you're not musical, or didn't pay attention in music class, those are just the specific piano notes that happen to line up (mostly) with the two interfering tones at the top of that sample--in case that rings any bells with anybody. Having ...

================================================================================ The microphone I have is a Samson CO1U USB Condenser microphone' My computer is a MAC OS X version 10.4.11 I have AUDACITY 1.2.6 The following are the control menus that are faded and none operational: 1. Analyze menu (...

What steps have you take to reduce the load on your CPU? Audacity wakes up from first birthday in mono. What happens if you leave it that way? The other troubleshooting trick is to break it really good. What can you do to make the clicks much worse? Have you run a Memory Checker? Microsoft makes a t...