Audacity Forum

glnagrom wrote:When I go to help for audio device info--Audacity crashes.

It certainly should not do that.

Try launching Audacity from a Terminal window (just type the word audacity and hit return).
Then try opening the audio device info.
Does it still crash and if so, what is written to the Terminal window?

Sorry for the back to back replies here. But I think I may have found the culprit and wanted to post it incase anyone else has any issues... I do not have a separate sound card on my CPU, just the Soundblaster x-fi built in chip on my motherboard. The X-fi loads a little tool tray program which has ...

Wow, ok that's really bizarre. When listening to the track on my Android phone, with the SAME headphones plugged in that I use to studio monitor, I don't hear the noise at all... But when listening both on my Laptop AND my desktop I get the same odd feedback. Perhaps it's a Windows 7 / Driver issue?...

Make a very high quality MP3 (128 or higher), park it in your iPod and go in the back yard and listen there.

Koz

Carefully pick up the file and listen to it on a completely different system. I think your computer monitoring system is fried/frying. You're producing delightful tracks, you just can't hear them.

Koz

... that does this) is that Normalize operates on the left and right channels independently. In some cases this can be a good thing in that it can help to balance the left and right channels if the recording is out of balance. On the other hand it can be a bad thing as a single high spike on one ...

I see what you're saying Koz. I wish I could upload a file larger than 1mb here so you could really hear it over a longer period of time. The sound I am referring to isn't the standard "hum" that we all try so hard to reduce. This mic does not have a very big issue with that. The noise I'm...

I hear what might be normal background noise of a microphone system -- far softer than you gasping for air and moving your chair, and way under your "Testing" vocal. A very high, tight, delicate rain-in-the-trees hiss? Can you listen to the track somewhere else? This sounds like a dead nor...

Hello everyone. I have recently been working towards getting a setup in my home to record audio books in. I am using a Sterling Audio ST55 condenser mic in a Alesis IO2 Audio interface which is hooked into my laptop running windows 7 64-bit and the latest beta of Audacity. Attached to this post is a...

... often means a sample rate problem. Try 44100 Hz or 48000 Hz in "Project Rate" bottom left of the Audacity window. If none of that helps, do what Steve suggested and reinstall the SoundMax device. If you have a drivers CD for the computer, use that. Otherwise go to the computer ...