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FlatAssembler wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 02, 2019 7:02 am

now Audacity launches

Excellent

FlatAssembler wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 02, 2019 7:02 am

it gives me this error.

When does that appear?
Which version of Audacity did you build?

What happens if you record guitar as a third track?
What happens if you record the keyboard part on its own in a new empty project?

How is the keyboard connected to your computer?

This may help: https://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Compiling_an ... ng_started

A self-build wxWidgets installs (by default) in /usr/local/lib/ rather than the usual system location of /usr/lib/, so you may need to add /usr/local/lib/ to your library path environmental variable. Try running in a Termnal: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/<actual-path-on-your-system>/lib/" and ...

Has anyone yet suggested getting a USB XLR microphone pre-amp? Behringer do a reasonable one for under $40, and that will give you much better quality than the built-in mic socket, even if you get the built-in mic socket to work.

(The Sennheiser e935 microphone does not require phantom power).

I notice that you are building an old version of Audacity. The current release version is 2.3.2 and is available from here: https://www.fosshub.com/Audacity.html or here: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/releases I don't see any obvious errors in that configure log, but is is missing some inform...

My first guess is that Audacity can't find wxWidgets.

If you post a full configure log and build log, that may tell us more.

waxcylinder wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 01, 2019 5:11 pm

I get error messages on attempting this.

What error message do you get?

The default level of "0.8" is safe.

Does anyone have any tips for recording clean rain sounds? I always end up just having too much popping as rain hits the mic. "Rain" is virtually silent. The "sound of rain" is not actually the "rain", but "the raindrops hitting things". The challenge when tr...