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... saved project" case (only the original project is saved and not also an extra project that contains unsaved changes) but it doesn't help the original poster's situation where the project was never saved at all. I know some novices do what happened there, thinking that pressing [X] ...

albshore wrote:I asked a question before. on how to stop my cue up song from being recorded.

You're asking the wrong people if you're asking us about Serato. None of the regular crew on this forum use Serato, so while we'd love to be able to help we probably can't. Have you tried asking on the Serato forum?

... to get it to pass though. I might also mention that this is my first Window 7 computer (just in case that might have something to do with it). Any help would be appreciated. Brian

glad to be of help :) We've actually restructured the manual slightly (for the next version of Audacity) to make those tutorials that you needed a bit more visible and discoverable on the front page. Would this (slightly) revised ...

And more to the point still, Audacity doesn't support VST plug-ins at all on Linux. Sorry, we should have made that clear. Are you are on Linux (the board you posted to)? On Linux, you can run Audacity for Windows on Windows running in a Virtual Machine, or run Audacity for Windows under WINE. More ...

OK, That helped, I needed to know if Audacity would record directly from the microphone to the CD or if it made its own file. Now I know what to do. I looked for it in the manual myself, but did not find it, thanks for the link. It took me right where i needed to go.

A good place to start is the set of Tutorials in the Audacity Manual - they should help you get started- see: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tutorials.html Although this set is primarily aimed at LP/tape conversion much of it will apply to your needs: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tutorial_copying_tapes_lps_or_minidiscs_to_cd.html

... hard drive or onto my CD drive and how to control the recording if I need to stop and come back to it later. I would appreciate some basic help in getting started. I really like the idea of using Audacity and am not computer illiterate, but I am Older and a lot of my brain cells have retired ...

... I'm using a GGI Gear cassette player to transfer the audio in Audacity. I downloaded the lastest version of Audacity thinking that would help but it didn't. When I listen to the audio playing from the cassette player the audio is fine. Help please!!!

... topic here on the forum: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=71178 The forum topic would be a good place to ask if you need help applying the patch.