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http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 15&t=11662

All current development is on Audacity 1.3 Development on Audacity 1.2 ended some years ago. There is a guide to developing on Windows here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=Developing_On_Windows I think the developers have recently switched from MSVC++ Express 2005 to Visual Studio 2008...

Excellent. Thanks for letting us know.

I'm not an authority on this but you could ask the developers about this issue by contacting them on the "feedback" email address. I'm not sure how regularly this e-mail address is monitored, but here it is and if you don't here back from them please post here again and we'll see if we can...

dawhead wrote:The issue of whether to support realtime plugins should not be decided by processor capabilities, since it is fundamentally an architectural question.

Conversely, that's the reason why Ardour does not have a sample editor?

For best quality, you would use 32 bit and this would allow you to edit, process and manipulate your recording 'till the cows come home (as my Grandmother used to say) with virtually no loss in fidelity.

In most other cases you are likely to find that 16 bit is perfectly adequate.

It has an automatic defrag running in fact. I see that Koz has just in before me - I was about to say, make sure that you suspend auto defrag while you are recording - If the defrag program is moving data around while Audacity is writing to disk that is very likely to cause problems. he last time I...

I've uninstalled all the visible VST plugins and the problem persists, how would I find any others? Can you do a system restore? The 1.3.7 version runs fine on my PC. That's one of the things that makes me think it may be to do with VSTs. Audacity 1.3.8 includes some support for VSTs with the VST G...

I would have a look at this, but I've not come across this "ramp panning plug-in". Where do I get that from?

sagetyrtle wrote:Felix needs to walk from -3 to 7 (30% to the left through to 7% to the right),

Should that be 30% to 70% ?

You had a version older than 1.2? Wow, that's old. We are generally advising people to get the 1.3 version.

The problem is probably that you do not have the correct device set for either Record or Playback in "Edit > Preferences > Audio I/O"

I would recommend trying Audacity 1.3