Audacity Forum

The usual explanation for that is that Audacity is trying to record but is not receiving any audio data, so it just sits there waiting for the audio stream to start.

What are you trying to record and what settings are you using? In particular, what settings do you have in the device toolbar?

Nyquist is a separate thing from Audacity. Audacity is an application that is (mostly) written in C++. Nyquist is a programming language (based on XLISP). Audacity usually handles sounds by loading a sequence of sample values into an array buffer and passing that buffer to the processing code, and o...

It looks like you have 3 audio devices. HDA NVidia: ALC1200 I'm guessing that this is your on-board sound card Hauppauge HVR-1600 Probably a TV card? One or more digital audio outputs. May not have a physical socket, but we're not interested in outputs. If my guess is right and you are trying to rec...

you will need to spend a bit of time getting things lined up correctly How? I just dragged the clap and Control-L reduced it to flat line. Doesn't change the show length a bit. Putting different sound in that hole is a lot more involved. Koz I'm guessing that you've not listened to the clip that I ...

Cut and paste.
This one was done quite quickly - to get it spot on you will need to spend a bit of time getting things lined up correctly, but this should give the general idea:

In the Audacity Help menu, select "audio device info", then copy and paste the info into your reply.

I have a newer laptop. It is a Toshiba 64 bit device. Is there a version of Audacity that will run on it? The current version of Audacity runs fine on latest generation 64-bit PCs. Assuming that you are using a current release version of Windows you can find the system requirements here: http://web...

kozikowski wrote:Do the controls lock together if they "know" you have a mono show or selection? Gray out?

No, still can't do that, but the Audacity / Nyquist interface is due for a revamp, so it may be possible in Audacity 2.1.1 or 2.1.2.

they may guess what the controls do but may have no idea when they could be useful. That's a general issue that applies to many effects, but probably to dynamic processors more than others. Even with a simple interface, the "difficult" part remains - the "when and why" to use it...

Well it goes without saying I like this one - I was disappointed we had to wait until after 2.1.0. Where is the NY file? The small code change in Audacity that allows this to work as intended was committed today, so should be in the next nightly. Glad you are still in favour - I'll post the NT file...