So I updated my audacity to 3.6 this morning and now am in a world of woes. I record on a Nuemann 102, and Scarlett interface. I have changed none of my setting or levels. The audio is now super quiet in audacity and I have no idea why. My monitoring bars are also now empty as you can see in the photo below. I tried reinstalling the version I was using and I have all the same problems. I am so frustrated because audacity was working great literally minutes before I updated and now it’s seeming broken. I have checked that my recording volume in at 100% in audacity. I have made sure that it is recording on my mic and not some other mic. Literally everything looks the same to me but as you can see in the photos below the volume is tiny in comparison. I have included a photo below. The upper audio was recorded this morning before the update and the lower audio was recorded just now after the update. Please help, I wish I had just left it alone but now I cannot revert it back to how it was.
This is the first report I’ve seen of this particular problem, although other have reported issues with the Scarlet interface. At the moment I have no idea how to solve it.
You can revert back to Audacity 3.5.1, you just won’t be able to open any projects created in 3.6. I you have any audio recorded in 3.6 that is OK, you could export it to AIF then import it into a 3.5.1 project.
You can have multiple versions of Audacity installed at the same time. You can’t run both at the same time, though. Rename the latest download as “Audacity 361” (or similar), then download and install 3.5.1. Rename it to “Audacity 351”. The Mac will always default to using the latest version when you double-click on an AUP3 file, so be careful of that.
Take that whole “audacity” folder to the trash. Exit. Restart the Mac.
Yours may look slightly different than this.
Fair warning, that will give you a First Birthday Audacity. If you have special Audacity plugins or add-ons they will be gone unless you saved copies of them under a different folder (highly recommended). And then you will be re-installing them.
And that still won’t help if your problem is caused by a different application.
Will you do an update in the middle of a job ever again?
Folders for the various Audacity versions are not needed, unless you are trying to use a “Portable Settings” folder (which may no longer be supported, BTW) so that each version has it’s own configuration file.
Changing the name of the application file was a little too adventurous for me. And then adding a space in the filename. All that can work as long as nothing on your machine ever goes wrong.
Perhaps spaces in filenames may be problematic on Linux (I really don’t know for sure), but I have lots of Apple applications with spaces in their names (such as App Store, Photo Booth, Find My, Mission Control, Quicktime Player, and Voice Memos). Anyway, one could change the name to “Audacity361”.
