Audacity Forum

clai,

You need an audio device with 4 inputs. Most professional quality sound cards will give you more than 2 inputs (mine gives me 8). Alternately, your keyboard might. Does your keyboard have 4 outputs?

If the hardware doesn't support it, then there's nothing the software can do about it.

93 MB is pretty big for a wav, but it's not unheard of for longer tunes (or songs stored at a high sample rate / bit depth). You're right about wav files, they're playable almost anywhere. But they're big. On average they're 10 times bigger than mp3 files. In most cases a 128 kbps mp3 file is good e...

Second paragraph first: I've also noticed when I now load an image into audacity there's a lighter band across the editing window from +0.5 to -0.5 and when I select a portion of the wave form for editing, the highlighted portion is only that which is outside of this band as opposed to the wave itse...

The final size of an output file is determined solely by the output format. I'm gonna take a guess here that you're importing mp3 files and exporting as wav files. That would, on average, make the file 10 times bigger than it was originally. On the other hand, you might be talking about using the Sa...

It sounds pretty good, but I do have some criticisms. The stereo balance is right-heavy due to the guitar being panned that way (and it being the main instrument). I would pan the guitar about 10% right and the vocals about 10% left to even things out. I'm sure many would balk at putting the vocals ...

Sounds pretty similar to what I do, though I work much more haphazardly (because I'm crazy like that).

At this point I can't really say anything else unless I get a chance to listen. Any change you could post those tracks somewhere (like MySpace)?

About the PreSonus, yes it will work in Audacity provided it's running non-ASIO drivers. I used one myself for a few hours with Audacity once.

lgunther, this is an odd problem.

Are you often plugging/unplugging any USB devices into your computer (especially a USB turntable or similar)? Those can change your sound card settings without telling you.

So you want to record the output of a MiniDisc player into your computer? As long as you have a Line In (some Laptops don't nowadays), it's easy. Plug the Line Out of the MiniDisc player (or the headphone out) into the Line In on your sound card, and then open up Audacity and set it to use the Line ...

I just replied to your other question in a different thread. If you had said you wanted the Stereo Mix source, I would have pointed you here earlier. Many Vista users (and plenty of XP users) simply can't access that source due to the way the drivers are written.