Audacity Forum

Oh. Yeah, I use Documents/My Documents as a general nexus. I read earlier threads on the scanning issue. I have no VST plugins; I thought the LSPDA ones were VST, so yeah I have none. I know about cfg and ini files, and some basic command line, via MAME. I should've put together that I needed to add...

Old Mac's only had one mouse button - the joke is that Apple thought that two buttons was too complicated for Mac users. Yeah, I remember that joke. Or legend. Didn't know Audacity was that old. Click on the track control panel - left end of the track where it says the sample rate and bit format - ...

Hmmm, happens with legacy Audacity, too. We don't know what happens, with what plug-ins package, because you did not answer Steve's questions. If this something happens without going into the Effects Preferences to rescan VST effects, can you post an image of the error message box you see (ALT + Pr...

Audacity will scan for VST effects the first time you use it, then not again unless you ask for the rescan in Effects Preferences and restart Audacity. LADSPA dll's will be detected as soon as you put them in the Audacity "Plug-Ins" folder and restart Audacity (whether you rescan for VST effects or...

The main reason for limited right-click features is that Audacity was not developed exclusively for Windows (where right-click has always been the norm) but for Mac and Linux as well. In fact, most of Audacity's early development was done on Mac. Gale Oh. Mac and Linux don't have that? Weeird. @ste...

I've long wondered why there isn't one. Seems real counter-intuitive.

The stock plugins do not cause a scan. Only any of those included with the package. I made a fresh directory of Audacity - no scan. I copied just *one* plugin (plate verb) over from somewhere else, and it causes a scan. I might think the plugins.cfg isn't getting written to, but I don't know what wo...