Audacity Forum

After I'd gone through all the rigmarole of registering with Steinberg so that I could download the ASIO SDK. I then tried to install TortoiseCVS but couldn't get it to work, so I went to Sourceforge and downloaded the Audacity source code from there. Then I saw that I needed to install Visual Studi...

She's probably wearing an AKG C555L or whatever the wireless version of that microphone is. That may be the WMS450 (around $500 for the headset version), but I'd bet that Christina Aguilara would be more likely to use something like a DPA 4088 (over $600 just for the headset). Even the DPA's have a...

"SIMPLE?" This is the the preliminary info about the Audacity source code!!! Complete gobbledygook to me - it assumes so much prior knowledge which I don't have. I'm a musician - not a programmer! I know exactly what you mean - I'm a musician also - and that's why I've only once tried com...

Or, this could be a USB power problem. It certainly could, but it amounts to much the same thing. USB has trouble maintaining a consistent data flow at the best of times (at least in part because it is CPU dependent), but if anything interrupts the USB data (including a hub trying to share the conn...

Go into Audacity Preferences (Edit > Preferences) and on the Quality tab, change the Default sample format to 16 bit or 32 bit. I suspect that it is on 24 bit and some Macs are known to have problems with 24 bit audio.

Audacity does not support simultaneous recording from multiple sound cards. It does support some multi-channel sound cards but it is rare that anyone ever tells us their success stories so we only hear about the problems. You may find a few examples if you search the forum, but there's not many post...

Audacity 1.3.8 uses the "VST bridge" plug-in (as it had no VST support on its own).
Audacity 1.3.9 now has built in VST support and should be used without the VST bridge.

There's an awful lot of VST plug-ins to test, so developing VST support is likely to be ongoing for quite a while.

Are you using a USB sound card / USB microphone / USB turntable?

See here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php? ... e_computer

Edit menu > Preferences > Devices tab.
Set Recording channels to "1 (mono)"

Does that work?