Audacity Forum

Which version of macOS?
Which version of Audacity? (look in "Audacity menu > About Audacity")
What are you trying to record?
What sort of mic?

Does Audacity record if you use inputs 1 and 2 of the Moto-828mk3 ?

Cancoillote wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 03, 2019 5:54 pm

with 2.3.2 virgin portable installation

I'm not sure that I understand - was that a version form ninite?
Are you aware that the official ZIP download can be used as a portable version? (you just need to unzip it, and add a "Portable Settings" folder)

kozikowski wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 03, 2019 4:35 pm

Everybody wins.

So long as the new version doesn't have bugs. If you have time to play with it / test it, then please do, and let me know how it goes.
I'd be particularly interested to know if the performance improvement that I see on Linux is also on Windows / Mac.

kozikowski wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 03, 2019 4:24 pm

Are the new action settings more or less similar going forward?

Identical.

DennyA wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 03, 2019 2:48 pm

the new Pianodisc system that plays downloaded MP3 files

Are you sure about that? I've just looked at the PianoDisk website and it looks like they support either their own PianoDisk format, or MIDI. I don't see any mention of MP3.

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Traktor is probably using ASIO, which will lock out non-ASIO applications (such as Audacity) from the recording device while ASIO is running.

Cancoillote wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 02, 2019 8:32 pm

were you under windows ?

No, I'm on Linux. This "shouldn't" be different on Windows (it should be the same on all platforms), but I'll check.

does audacity output to alsa directly instead of via pulseaudio That depends on the settings in the Device Toolbar (https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/device_toolbar.html) When "host" is set to "ALSA" and the devices are set to either "default" or "Pulse", t...