Audacity Forum

The USB cable provides a MIDI connection to the computer, not an audio connection.
If you wish to record the sounds in Audacity you need to make an audio connection. This would normally be done by connecting an audio output from the synth to the line input of your computer sound card.

Thanks for your post eighthave, I don't know how much interest there will be just at the moment as most of the Audacity developers are heavily involved with getting Audacity ready for the release of version 2.0, but I've forwarded your post to the developers mailing list. If you are interested in su...

Instruction for installing Lame are here: http://audacityteam.org/help/faq?s=install&i=lame-mp3

If you still have problems, please be very specific about what the problem is - we have no idea what you mean by the phrase "It won't accept it".

You mean that he gave you two mono tracks and you want to make them into one stereo track? If so, Import the Left track first ("Project" menu) then import the Right track (this will be placed below the first imported track). Click on the name of the Left (upper) track and select "Make...

Seeing as I have a line level input on my mixer, is it possible to purchase a basic mic level to line level preamp/converter that would work for a PC microphone? I've never seen such a device sold anywhere. As described in the other thread, PC microphones require a low voltage supply to work - this...

How are you recording the guitar?

~/.audacity-files/plug-ins/ "Yes yes yes" (said Steve excitedly) that works :) Would you believe that this has been in the wiki for the past 2 years? http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Nyquist_Plug-ins I must have done the same as you when I read that and misread ".audacity-files"...

Which version of Audacity?
Which version of Windows?
What sort of sound card?
What are you trying to record?

OK, let's take this one step at a time. [email protected]:~$ sudo chgrp <administrator> /usr/share/audacity/plug-ins bash: administrator: No such file or directory Is your user name "administrator"? Is there a folder called "plug-ins" in "/usr/share/audacity...

amybabe0707 wrote:It doesn't play all of it and it just makes this annoying noise instead of playing the sound.

What do you mean exactly? Do you mean that the track plays through really fast as a screeching sound, or do you mean that part of it plays correctly and then it does something else?