Audacity Forum

One thing I forgot to mention: a one hour recording of 18 channels and at WAV specs yields about a 20 gig file.

It would be much preferred to start a new topic for your own issue. Sorry, Gale: I was not trying to start a new topic or get help with what doesn't work for me. I was just giving him another option if he wanted to try it. The Audacity version should have three numbers, see Help > About Audacity......

Poster did say that he is running Xubuntu which is much lighter RAM user than Ubuntu. Lubuntu would be a little lighter yet. Let me give some info that might be of value and maybe Gale can explain why. I use Xubuntu and Audacity to record 18 channels via USB cable from mixer to computer. The compute...

Ubuntu 16.04 and Audacity 2.1.2 is what gave me problems. 14.04 and older Audacity work fine together. I don't know which one is causing the problem: maybe both of them. I am using XFCE. I have tried both Xubuntu and Ubuntu studio. Ubuntu Studio has the low latency kernel: Xbuntu does not. I tried b...

I would think that someone can close this thread now. After switching back to the older version of Linux and Audacity, everything has been running fine. Let me make an observation here: I don't know what it means, but I am hoping someone here will. With the newer version of both programs, I noticed ...

I already thought about doing that. And, I will one of these days. After fighting with this for the last month, I am going to forget about it for a little while.

Thanks to all who tried to help!

Well, we got it fixed today: sorta. Reverted back to Xubuntu 14.04 and Audacity 2.0.5 and we recorded 18 channels at 44.1 kHz without any trouble at all. And, right out of the box so to speak: left it at high sampling rate with buffer at 100. Same USB cable as before. Where is the problem? Dunno. Ei...

Been playing with Ardour for a few weeks now: still trying to figure it out. I will definitely try it if and when I get it figured out. Like I said before, it just bothers me that I recorded 18 channels before with no problems at all. Now, I cannot. And, I did take the recording hz down to 33, no be...

I took the "audio to buffer all the way up to 170: should I have gone more? What I am not understanding is that I had no problem whatsoever before the upgrade to 16.04. Lesser machine, same set up completely: pretty much "out of the box". The only thing I remember changing was the input source to 18...

I am recording the USB stream from the board. When I hook up the cable, Audacity shows me 4 connections for the board: QU32 mic 0, mic 1, line 0, and line 1. I have tried all 4 of them: just today. I tried increasing and decreasing the latency: nothing there either.