Audacity Forum

What settings do you have on each machine in the device toolbar?

I don't know if you saw my previous post too, I was able to take the original files aup and all and open on a Windows machine running Audacity 1.03, export out an MP3 and WAV without the issue. Yes I saw that. What I really want to see is a project just before the problem appears. One way to get th...

Try resetting the preferences for Audacity on the Desktop machine.
To do that, run the installer and in the "Select Additional Tasks" screen, put a check in the "Reset Preferences" box. Complete the installation.

steve wrote:Did you install ASIO drivers on your desktop machine?

That was a question. Could that be the difference between the desktop and the laptop?

Why did you decide to replace the Blue Yeti?

Did you install ASIO drivers on your desktop machine?
Audacity is distributed without ASIO support (due to licensing restrictions) so it must use Windows drivers for the Focusrite Scarlett and not ASIO drivers. If Audacity is trying to access the Focusrite Scarlett via ASIO drivers it won't work.

You can find the value of the first sample in a selection by using the Nyquist Prompt effect and running the following code: (snd-fetch s) If you want the value in dB, use this code: (linear-to-db (abs (snd-fetch s))) You can also see an approximate value by zooming in vertically and horizontally as...

What I'm thinking of is perhaps something like this (which could be written as a Nyquist plug-in and run in the current version of Audacity). tracks001.png The upper track is the original vocal recording. The label track in the middle is produced by the first run of the effect over the recording, Th...

I've come across a similar issue to this, which was also on a Mac. This is a very curious but distinctive type of distortion. Unfortunately in the previous case the user apparently gave up on the problem so we never did find out what the cause was (though something to do with Soundflower was one pos...

Most laptop PCs have very poor quality built in recording. Very occasionally we come across a laptop where microphone recording is not too bad, but that is very much the exception. I'd not be at all surprised if this is just a limitation of the built-in microphone input. There is a huge topic here a...