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We're not sure why this problem occurs, as none of the developers or support people can reproduce the problem. To help us to try and find the course, could you give some additional information: Which version of MacOS? Do you use "Time Machine"? Does your Mac automatically shut down when le...

Lou_am wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 02, 2019 9:31 am

I keep getting error messages stating there is an issue etc.

You need to be more precise about the error message, otherwise it could be anything.

Booklaunch wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 01, 2019 11:37 am

I've deleted this file - ~/Library/Application Support/audacity/ - in Folders and it still doesn't help

I suspect that you've not done that correctly (because that is the solution).
Billw58 wrote precise instructions here: viewtopic.php?p=364554#p364554

The Alesis Multimix 4 USB FX mixer provides 2 channels (stereo) over USB. https://www.alesis.com/products/view/multimix-4-usb-fx The MultiMix 4 USB FX enables bidirectional stereo playback, so you can record the stereo Main output into your computer and listen back using the mixer as an interface fr...

What is the error message? If it is "api-ms-win-crt-runtime-1-1-0.dll was not found", then you need to update Windows "Visual C++ redistributable". You can get the updatet from Microsoft here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-ie/download/details.aspx?id=48145 Download the "Visua...

Error code: -9999 Unanticipated host error Unfortunately this is a "fall through" error message from PortAudio. Audacity uses PortAudio to connect to the computer's sound system. If PortAudio hits a problem communicating with the sound system, it runs through a list of possible problems a...

I downloaded the newest version of Audacity and am using Mojave 10.14.6 I am using a UBS adapter I have no idea if it is recording as after I turn on tape deck, click record on Audacity I cannot listen to what has been recorded. How do I play back? I clicked transport and play through and still no ...

(cond…) does (to me) the same as (if (arrayp sig) except allowing for a third option in case someone feeds something other than sound to this function. COND is a very useful "conditional" form. It is essentially the same as (in pseudo code): IF (condition A) THEN DO (some code) ELSE IF (c...

mean-sq function Nyquist's RMS function is actually written in Nyquist (LISP) code. The code can be found in Audacity's source code: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/blob/master/nyquist/dspprims.lsp ;; RMS -- compute the RMS of a sound ;; (defun rms (s &optional (rate 100.0) window-size) (l...

what does ny:all stand for NY:ALL is a variable that has a preset value within Nyquist. I believe it was added to Nyquist as a convenience when applying functions that need a "maximum number of samples" to be specified, so it's a big number, but hopefully no so big as to cause memory to r...