Hoping someone can help because this is becoming frustrating. I was using audacity on my laptop with windows 10 with my focusrife solo plugged in USB. Recording voice audio with AKG perception mic. Had no issue when I first downloaded the previous version of Audacity and used it for the first 2 times. Was using Spreaker recording studio to record for a while, but recently went back to use Audacity because of versatility. First time I went to use I got the dreaded ‘error opening sound device. Try changing the audio host, recording device and project sample rate’ message. I simply unplugged the focusrite and plugged it back into a different USB port and everything was working fine for 2 weeks. Now I have the message again. I have tried everything on the help topic, everything on the forum and nothing corrects the error message. Audacity will record if I do not have it setup for my focusrite and use my laptop’s internal mic. Focusrite audio works fine if I open up Spreaker to record. So far I have :
-downloaded latest version of Audacity 2.1.3
-set my project rate to diff hz (always used 44100 before)
-made sure sound activated recording was off
-made sure overdub is off
-rescanned audio devices
-went into control panel and made sure audio devices were enabled, even had show disabled devices option and enabled that too
-made sure software play through is off
-made sure playback and recording devices correctly selected
-selected windows direct device as host
-made sure available inputs are in the windows control panel
-tried 44.1, 44.8, 88.2, 96 hz which is what the focusrite supports
Can someone please help!!