I'm trying to use Voxengo SPAN with Audacity, what is this dumbass doing wrong?

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Dear Anyone.

This is what Google told me to do to use Voxengo SPAN, Spectrum Analyzer, in Audacity.

  1. Select Audio: Double-click your recorded track to highlight it.
  2. Launch SPAN: Go to the top menu, select Effect, look under the VST or Analyze subcategories, and click SPAN.
  3. Analyze: Hit Play inside Audacity. The graph inside the SPAN window will immediately begin mapping your real-time frequencies.

Er - I can’t make any of that work! I’ve got SPAN visible in the Effects menu. If I choose it so its window appears in Audacity on top of my recorded track, pressing PLAY does nothing. Pressing PREVIEW works - but you only get the first 5 seconds because it’s a preview! If I click on APPLY, I get a little progress bar, then the SPAN window vanishes and I can’t see any spectrum analyzer details. If I press PLAY first THEN try to get to SPAN in the Effects menu, it’s there but greyed out so I can’t use it!

But Google AI says it IS possible to use SPAN in Audacity - so what am I doing wrong? I don’t get it. (PLEASE be nice with the techiness of the replies, I’m not a tech., I just want to see the spectrum analyses of the tracks I record! )

If it helps, just noticed it’s coming up as Span PLUS, not just Span. Not sure what the difference is.

Yours respectfully,

Chris.

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Are you clicking play on the plug-in, or in Audacity? Whichever you are doing, try the opposite.

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There are two effect menus . You want the realtime Effect menu on the far left, (not “top”).

Span PLUS is paid for version. The free version is sufficient for most users.