I am using a Toshiba computer that is just 8 months old and has Intel Core I-7 4700MQ Quad core. OS is Win 7. I have Audacity 2.0.6 I have a Rode NT1A mic hooked to XLR cable - Blue Icicle - USB cable and then plugged into computer USB port. The computer sees the Blue Icicle and knows its a audio device but it appears that it will not work because there is no Device Driver with it. The Blue Icicle is supposed to be a plug and play device but the computer and Win 7 won’t let it work. Everyone on line and on YouTube says just plug it and use it but I cannot. I have tried all the tricks of restarting, plug and unplug, uninstall , etc. Gone through all the Blue trouble shooting checks but nothing works. All I need to do is get the computer to recognize it as an audio device. Any Ideas out there???
Thanks, Jeff
The computer sees the Blue Icicle and knows its a audio device but it appears that it will not work because there is no Device Driver with it.
You left a hole there. Will not work where? Win7 has a sound control panel with a little bouncing sound meter. Do you get the bouncing sound meter when you connect everything and tap the microphone? You can close Audacity until this resolves.
As a fuzzy rule, Audacity can see it if Windows can see it.
You may have fallen into one of those Windows hidden services.
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tutorial_your_first_recording.html
Koz