Audacity Forum

You need to save (or Export) from Mixpad as "Microsoft PCM WAV". You should then be able to import into Audacity.

It seems that Audacity keeps a "mental note" of the peak audio level of each track all the time. If you use "Amplify" you will notice that Audacity immediately knows how much the track can be amplified without clipping (much like with "Normalise".

"Edit > Preferences > File Formats"
Bottom section "MP3 Export Setup"
Try setting the "Bit Rate" to 128

It could be a bug in v.1.3.2
Try updating to a more recent version - preferably 1.3.4

Should I try to set up Audacity to utilize the ASIO driver, basically making it my default driver of choice for all recordings? Is this possible? No this is not possible (without doing a custom build from the source code). Here is why: http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=ASIO_Audio_Interfa...

Try thinking of it as reaping the plentiful harvest of your creative endeavour :) Seriously, Reaper is a great program and getting better all the time. The current release compares very favourably with similar products that cost 10 times as much (Cubase et al). Of course the trial version is free an...

Using 32 bit will create twice as much data as 16 bit. It could be that your hard drive is struggling to keep up. Try 16 bit and see if that's any better.

Try using 48000 / 16 bit
A lot of people with Macs seem to have problems with 24 bit and reducing it to 16 bit will have very little effect on the final quality of your recordings.

With an Audigy 2 the latency should be low enough to not cause a problem, so it is most likely the "software playthrough" that Locopomo mentioned.

A common problem when starting to use Linux for audio work is getting the inputs and outputs for your sound card driver configured correctly. I presume that you are using ALSA - if not, use Synaptic to install ALSA. You will probably want to use a graphical interface for making the settings to your ...