Audacity Forum

digiday wrote:There is a required VST enabler

The VST enabler is only required for Audacity 1.2.x and should not be used with Audacity 1.3.x
Audacity 1.3.13 has built-in (and improved) support for VST effects without using the VST enabler.

You've posted in the Audacity 1.2 part of the forum, but on Win 7 you should be using Audacity 1.3.13 http://audacityteam.org/download/

See these links for getting started:
http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Audacity_Projects
http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Tuto ... _Recording

You can drag entire tracks up/down by clicking in the box on the left end of the track and dragging up/down. Take care not to click on one of the buttons or sliders.

Overdub should be on (selected). Software Playthrough should be off (not selected). In the Device Toolbar the recording (Input Device) setting should be set to the USB option (the Yetti) and the playback (Output Device) setting should be set to the sound card output that your headphones are connecte...

See these links:

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Recor ... e_computer
http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/How_to_burn_CDs

Turn off Software Playthrough. Although software playthrough allows you to monitor through your headphones what is being recorded, there is, as you have discovered, an unavoidable delay (echo). If you keep the volume level in your headphones reasonably low you should have no difficulty hearing what ...

Check which Audacity version you are using (Help menu > About Audacity).
The Noise gate effect requires a fairly recent version of Audacity 1.3.x. The recommended version is Audacity 1.3.13 which you can get here: http://audacityteam.org/download/

There's a draught proposal here waiting for further suggestions and ideas. Feel free to add your 2 cents.

Ensure that all "dependencies" are still available.
See here for more information: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Audacity_Projects

Which version of Audacity are you using? (look in the Help menu "About Audacity" for the full version number.)