Audacity Forum

You have my interest now. Are you using JACK? What are you changing in the "out-of-the-box" Audacity setup? Realize (and you probably already do) that the stream coming in is purely digital: straight out of a Allen & Heath QU32 mixer. It comes in via a USB cable directly to a USB port on the PC. It ...

I have not. Anytime I have ever tried using JACK, I have never had good luck. However, I have not tried it using Audacity. I still believe that what I am trying to do is just too much info to be processed and written to disc that quickly. The older version of Audacity wrote to the disc differently t...

No joy today. Even with the SSD, I still could not record 18 channels even after dropping the to frequency to 22.1 and using the lowest sampling rates.

Recording was at 44.1 with 32 bit float. What else can I tweak if I need to? I am hoping not to drop below 44.1 one for several reasons: I want the quality and even when I tried that before it really didn't help.

18 stereo channels, hence the 6G size. Or there abouts. Anyway, I am still trying to find out what the best set-up is for attempting it, if someone has any ideas. I did it before with the older version. Now, I have better PC, better HD (SSD), and I am hoping to accomplish this. The SSD is hooked to ...

One last thing: a 15 minute recording (on the older version) @ 18 channels, comes out to about a 6 gig file.

This is an older post about this problem: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=91897&p=307807&hilit=autodctr#p307807. If the sound clips are still there, you can hear what I was getting while recording: and that was with the recording quality settings brought down quite a bit with real...

Actually, CPU time is not the issue. When I am recording, the CPU is running at about 10 %, memory usage is around 880 meg, and 0 swap. I am running a 3.3 quad core. What I noticed: with the older Audacity 2.0.?, when I finally stop the recording after about 15-20 minutes of recording, the HD runs c...

Audacity 2.1.2 and Xubuntu 16.04 64 bit. I need to record 18 channels of music via USB cable from a mixer. I have a 1TB spinning drive running the program and a 120G SSD to record it onto. I went into Preferences and chose the SSD drive for the temp file. Is this correct? Is this the fastest means o...

Just wanted to make a comment about the "weight" of Linux. I run Xubuntu and on my home PC, I have quite a few extra things running. So, last night while I was out at the church, I booted that machine up. I have Bluetooth disabled and auto updates disabled on boot. Otherwise, all else is as it came/...