Audacity Forum

Make sure you have the correct drivers for the E-MU.

It seems the "best" choice is the "Beta" driver from: http://tinyurl.com/dxxavp .


Gale

OldCoder wrote:Missed your question on the drivers.

i got them from the dell web site, the machine is T3400

I checked on this about 8 months ago and these were not there so they must have changed something.....

Thanks. I am not clear, if you restart Audacity can you now hear playback?


Gale

If you reinstall Audacity from the installer at http://audacityteam.org/download/windows , ensuring you enable "Reset Preferences" half way through the installer, then launch Audacity, where is the Audacity temporary directory set to?


Gale

i noticed the soundmax drivers were slightly out of date. Installed new version, checked that sound works correctly for everything else. Where did you get those from? The drivers should be the latest ones meant for XP SP3 (64-bit if you have 64-bit XP) supplied by the maker of the computer (or the ...

Note that if another application has "exclusive access" to your sound card, then the sound card will not be available to Audacity. If that happens, I think Audacity will show no devices in Device Toolbar (on launch or if you Transport > Rescan Audio Devices) and will give "Error Open...

Do you think that incremental scanning of vsts is a viable future Audacity option? Could you clarify what you mean. Do you mean that Audacity should be able to specify the locations it searches in for VST plug-ins? You can probably speed up the loading of plug-ins by unchecking the VSTi's in the &q...

Are you running Audacity from within Visual Studio? There is no need to do that. Just double-click "audacity.exe" to launch Audacity. Restart Audacity. Post the contents of Help > Show Log... . Does Audacity crash or the export fail when you see the assertion error? Is there something diff...

Robert J. H. wrote:Steve has even written a plug-in that converts the exported data to an importable EQ-preset.

Where do I find that?

Gale

It isn't an Audacity problem. It doesn't manipulate the audio when recording. Have you tried another USB port? Have you enabled the "-15dB switchable attenuator" on the mic? Have you done right-click over the speaker icon by the system clock, then choose "Recording Devices". Righ...

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