Audacity Forum

... the computer's inbuilt speakers) and adjust the volume playing through the external speakers at the amplifier. This was never necessary with XP or Vista computers & earlier versions of Audacity. Unless someone has a better way of achieving this I guess I will just have to use this method.

Hey so im running the new audacity on windows vista i can quite easliy record one track, that works fine, but if i add another track that becomes very quite, if not slient, and randomly spikes. When it does spike i can hear what i am trying to record, ...

... this. Please try this link: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_errors.html#sound_device . Make sure you follow the steps in "Additionally on Vista or 7, these steps are strongly recommended" so that you enable all the recording devices in Windows "Sound". If there is still a problem after ...

... Also it allows you to not hear what you are recording but still record, which you can do with stereo mix sound card recording on XP, but not on Vista and 7. Gale

... more information about your set-up for how you may be able to hear your piano while software playthrough is off. Laptop or Desktop computer? XP, Vista, Win 7? Internal/External sound card? (make and model if known) What sort of keyboard? How exactly is the keyboard connected to the computer? ...

... read pretty much confirms it's what I should be using for what I'm trying to do. What I'm Using -------------- I'm using a laptop running Windows Vista (SP2, 32 bit) with IDT audio. I haven't touched any audio drivers and from what I've read, there's no chance of any updates. I don't think Windows ...

... completely new to all the home recording business it took me a while to connect all my stuff up and actually learn how to record. I have Windows Vista 32bit and an Alesis io2 Express interface. I've connected my Shure microfone to it via XLR. To be quite honest I don't know what are the right ...

... Mix" (sometimes called "Mix" or "What U Hear") whereas on Vista / Win 7 there are "a lot" of machines that ...

Just tried it on Vista Home Premium, and it works as you describe for Win 7. Last week I was editing a rather large project on the Vista system and the behavior was just as I described earlier for XP, to wit: Enter toggles the selectedness ...

I'm unable to reproduce your results. What do I need to do to reproduce this problem? Just use it normally. Import a scratchy/hissy recording with gaps you can hear the hisssss. Get noise profile, then use noise removal at a setting of 15dB. I uninstalled and re-installed audacity, problem has gone...