Audacity Forum

The "talking into a fan"effect is what we call "skipping". It happens during recording when some part of the computer system is struggling to keep up with the data being recorded. A common cause for this is running other applications at the same time, particularly applications t...

Thanks, Paul. I also need (as I said) the make and model number of the computer. Also dxdiag does not state the exact model name or number of the SoundBlaster device so I need that as well. Given Sound Blaster does not currently work at all on your computer I suggest we try first to get Audacity wor...

I'm also seeing the main Audacity window opening at the wrong size on Linux (Xfce Desktop). If the window was maximised when Audacity was closed, then Audacity correctly opens maximised. When Audacity was not maximised when closed, the the x/y coordinates are correctly restored (providing that the ...

cowboy wrote:Found it, I did look there before, not sure why I didn't see it, maybe I had to restart the PC 1st ??

No, one objective of the Plug-in Manager is that you don't need to restart Audacity after enabling plugins.


Gale

Thank you for documenting your experiments. Had you installed older versions of Audacity before? The known cause for Audacity 2.1.1 not launching is presence of an audacity.cfg settings file from older versions of Audacity. The workaround of modifying or deleting audacity.cfg is described at http://...

Opening Audacity 96d2e66-2.1.2-alpha-10-oct-15 gives a small window, about half my screen width. Same thing with Cmd-N for a new window if there is not already a window open that I have already dragged to the proper size. Every time I start this version of Audacity I have to stretch the window out ...

We don't have enough information to help you. What exactly have you tried so far on Solutions if Audacity does not see any audio devices ? What is the make and model number of the computer? Did you upgrade this computer to Windows 10 over another version of Windows, if so, what version? Are you conn...

I had to figure out a way of opening the zip file and then copying it to the plug-ins downloads; then it worked. According to the import error you reported, you had already extracted the NY file from the zip file, but you had done so into a separate folder called "Noisegate" instead of in...

Moved to the correct Forum board. I followd step by step the suggestions to upgrade the divices and have put the correct settings. Still Audacity does'nt work. What can be the problem. I Use audacity 2.1.1 and AVG pro. If you have not already done so, please follow Solutions if Audacity does not see...

Unfortunately not, I don't use Time Machine..... Were you on Yosemite (10.10) before? If you can download the Yosemite installer, it's as simple as creating a new partition in Disk Utility, and installing Yosemite in that partition. Startup Disk in System Preferences will let you choose whether to ...