Audacity Forum

Personally I'm a little surprised that an environmental variable is not automatically set up when LADSPA plug-ins are installed by the package manager. Could you let me know if putting the path into /etc/environment works, and I'll see if I can add a note in the Audacity documentation about it. (Yo...

I wasn't suggesting that you installed Audacity to the same directory as the LADSPA executables, just that you installed it to the same tree - that is, to /usr/ (which is the default directory used by most distros) rather than /usr/local/ Oh, sorry. Then what's the scope of audacity's search for pl...

LoadLadspa.cpp Dominic Mazzoni From the ladspa docs: "To allow multiple hosts to share plugin types, hosts may wish to check for environment variable LADSPA_PATH. If present, this should contain a colon-separated path indicating directories that should be searched (in order) when loading plugin typ...

I have to admit I haven't run the experiment, but I'm not sure it would help. You're correct, my audacity folders are in the default /usr/local/share tree, but I think the only thing that ladspa has in /usr/share are some documentation proxies maybe? They're "rdf" files which I'm not clear on. The l...

I'm sure this is a painfully naive question. The environment is openSUSE 11.4 x86_64. For Good Reasons, I use a custom build of audacity rather than the version in the openSUSE repositories. What I can't seem to figure out is how to get it to find and load the LADSPA signal processing plug-ins. I ha...

Really must learn to use those plots. Anyway, here they are as log plots, and yes, the bass part looks pretty similar so maybe the issue is simply poor high frequency reproduction. Must be a phono needle catalog around here somewhere.

Thanks muchly,

maab

Herrrm. It is in me to wonder if it might have something to do with the frequency response of the undoubtedly aging needle and cartridge. Maybeso I should break down and replace them.

maab

No, the Kenwood is a pretty much no frills, direct-drive, variable speed TT. You can select the base speed -- 45 or 33-1/3 -- and frob it up or down a trifle with an adjust knob, but that's it. One possibility, not to be ignored, is that I'm simply over-reacting and its basically working properly an...

It sounds pretty much the same as the direct signal from the turntable, rather muddy and heavily bass. But you maybe need to know that for playback from the computer I'm going from the sound card out into the Pioneer Tape/DAT in, so it's going through the same amp?

maab

This is prob. in the painfully naive category, sorry in advance. I'm trying to make digital recordings of some old LPs. I don't have the detailed hardware specs right here at the moment, but the basic setup is an old Kenwood KD2070 turntable with an old aftermarket AudioTechnica cartridge going into...