Audacity Forum

Dear Gale, No, that's a misread-- it is definitely NOT necessary to write the temp directory to the system volume. In fact, I never do that. I was only noting as that since I hadn't tested that case, it's possible the dot-name problem doesn't appear if one does so. This is the first time I've run ac...

Dear Leland, In case this proves to be useful, let me describe my environment and the nature of the bug in more detail. This occurs on a Macbook Pro (Core Duo 2.0 GHz) running MacOS X 10.4.11 with 4 GB of RAM. My Audacity scratch directory is not on the system volume. If the name of the scratch dire...

Dear Gale, Thanks for settling this. I'll either grin and bear it or switch back to using CuBase (depends on which bothers me more, not having VU meters or not being able to save directly in flac format). Look forward to hearing from Leland; glad to help out in any way I can. By the way, in case you...

Dear Gale, a P.S. since I've got your ear-- Bug in Audacity 1.3.5: The temporary directory should NOT be default-named ".audacity_temp" ; Audacity to fail with a directory-not-found error (on my MacIntel running 10.4.11). Starting a file name with dot on a Mac is considered bad form. Usually it does...

Dear Gale, No, unfortunately, the Inspire is not a mixer-- it's designed solely to digitize four channels of audio and send them to software. It happens that Channels 1 and 2 are the Mike/Instrument inputs and 3 and 4 are the Line/Phono inputs. You can't swap them around nor mix the digital signals....

Dear Steve, Thanks for the help so far. Seems terribly unlikely that Audacity would support multichannel recording with no way to monitor the signal strength. Yeah, I could (and can) record 32-bit, but that just puts off the gain fiddlin' nonsense to later on. I'd rather get it right from the get-go...

Dear Steve, OK, setting Audacity Audio I/O preferences to 4 channel recording worked-- when I click the record button, it automatically creates four tracks and the phono audio comes thru on channels 3 and 4. I know how to delete channels 1 and 2 after I record, and mix 3 and 4 into a stereo track No...

Dear Waxy, No it's not got to do with the bit depth. If I plug an input into one of the mike jacks (audio inputs 1 and 2) on the Presonus, then Audacity sees the signal just fine. When I run audio into the Presonus via inputs 3 and 4 (the line/phono inputs I need to use to trascribe the vinyl), Auda...

OK, I figured out what has to be set wrong, by messing with Garageband and CuBase (the audio app included with the Inspire)-- the system defaults to audio input channels 1 and 2 (which are the mike inputs) instead of 3 and 4 (which are the phono/line inputs). Problem is that I can't figure out how t...

Dear Folks, OK, the saga continues. Bought a Presonus Inspire 1394 A-D -> Firewire unit for digitizing my vinyl. Got it hooked up to my stereo and my MacBook Pro fine. Directed Audio MIDI setup to make this the default input and output device. Set the sample rate to 48kHz, 24 bit. Unit plays just fi...