Audacity Forum

Look at the device settings for the recording device, and turn off all of Windows sound "enhancements". See: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/faq ... hancements

boredcook wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 11, 2019 11:21 am

here is what i get in terminal for "pulseaudio"

Good, that looks right.

Are you sure you posted all of the Audio device info?
The Audio device info dialog has a "Save" button. Try saving the info to a convenient location, then attach the file to your reply.

I'm just about at my wits end with this. :cry: Perhaps you're ready to try the suggestion that I posted here: https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?p=372379#p372379 Computer sound systems are complex (and yours is very complex). Debugging complex systems require a methodical approach: strip ...

and up it pops Arcsoft Showbiz (free version) will play through but not record as no video input I think that indicates the problem. Because it is a video device, it is producing a video stream muxed with audio, whereas Audacity is expecting a pure audio stream. VLC will record, but uses different ...

55barfly wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 11, 2019 8:19 am

had to be Reset again

Perhaps some other application is changing the settings. Do you use Skype or other voip program? If you do, try looking in the settings of that app.

btthpod wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 11, 2019 2:39 am

this mac for whatever reason needs to be up to 60...

Thanks for posting the solution. I was going to suggest that you reset the buffer to 100 (the default) and then work from there to find the optimum setting - you beat me to it

I'll close this topic as solved.

If you have that many Audacity programs running It's only possible to have one "instance" (one "program") of Audacity running at a time. One instance of Audacity can have multiple "projects" open (though I would not generally recommend doing so). Every time I try to cl...

Go into the Windows Sounds control panel, and set the recording and playback settings for the Focusrite to "2 channels (stereo), 44100 Hz sample rate". Then in Audacity, in the device toolbar , set "host" to WASAPI, playback to the Focusrite, and recording to the Focusrite loopba...

I think the best thing is to just try it.
("Ctrl + Z" to undo)

Crossfading is when one bit of audio fades out while another bit of audio fades in (the two bits of audio overlap during the transition).