Audacity Forum

According to the manual (http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/inst ... st_install) this location should be fine:
/Users/tomas/Library/Application Support/audacity/Plug-Ins/noisegate.ny

frankmazz wrote:I don't know what DC offset is

See here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/dc_offset.html

I think the first thing to try is updating Audacity to the current version (2.2.2) which you can get here: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/mac/ Ensure that you follow the installation instructions exactly as written (on that page). Incorrect installation of Audacity is one of the most frequent...

Go to "Help menu > Diagnostics > Audio Device Info" and save the info somewhere convenient (such as your Desktop), then attach the saved file to your reply (see here for how to attach a file to a forum post: viewtopic.php?f=49&t=64936)

Thanks for your feedback. I'm on Linux, and I can observer similar behaviour to what you report on your Mac. Dropouts may occur for many reasons. Basically they occur when some part of the system cannot keep up with the amount of audio data, so some of the audio data received fails to be written to ...

Equalization effect, with settings similar to this:

And although I can still record direct sound (e.g. a sound clip playback at vlc) while having Cubase open, when I try to record sound from Cubase I still get a straight line :cry: And ideas why? Probably because Cubase uses ASIO drivers by default, and Audacity does not ship with ASIO support (due ...

Michael Kazmierski wrote:error: unexpected EOF

That most likely means that your "(" do not match your ")".
The End Of Form (EOF) is reached before all the "(" have matching ")".

I've been told that Audacity 2.1.x has a really bad effect interface where it must insert unwanted silence whenever you apply an effect. I don't know who told you that, or what they were referring to, but we are way past 2.1.x. The current version of Audacity is 2.2.2 and it is available here: http...

Ensure that you have the correct drivers installed for the 2X2 (drivers available here: http://www.m-audio.com/support/drivers-search)