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Okay, I have used audacity for a little over 6 years as an audiobook narrator. Self taught through YouTube and trial and error. With the most recent round of updates I have had nothing but issues. I utilize the following master effects when recording -MuseFX (Warm Presence), Compressor standard default setting, Limiter -5 threshold.

When recording it will buffer amd skip part of my recording to catch up causing me to have to do more pick ups.

Sometimes it will just stop recording

I go to utilize standard effects and it take 30+ mins each with several instances of “Not Responding” before it will complete any of the followint my RMS, Compressor, Limiter.

My files are longer some upwards of an hour but this has never been an issue

When i record multiple tracks it makes everything worse

I cant send any of my errors to audacity it gives me some bs about not being able to send. Ai will update with an error cose if I get one.

I purchased the debreather 4 years ago and now its telling me I have to buy it again

And one file took over 45 mins to save and another took an hour to extract to a wav 32bi floater.

Things I have done.

Restart on computer, uninstall and reinstall of audacity (this fixed it for about an hour), updated all my even remotely sound related software including realtek, focusrite, and checked for any other updated on windows 11.

This has gotten to the point where my work is being severely delayed and I am not gonna get my projects out on time because something that should take maybe 30 mins MAX is running me over an hour or more in some cases.

Does anyone have suggestions because at this point I’m about to start learning reaper.

This is where you tell us which versions you’re using. The 3.7.x versions have not been models of reliability and stability.

I’m bringing a new machine on-line and I installed 3.6.2.

Do you keep all your old installers? Remember to delete or move your Preferences and Settings if you back up to an older version. Those files do not like going the “wrong way.”

Koz

Download an old 32-bit version from ~6 years ago, e.g. the last version 2 … https://www.fosshub.com/Audacity-old.html

Chose a zip, not an exe, file and unzip it into a folder.
Create an empty folder in that folder called “Portable Settings”.

[ The portable settings folder is essential to keep old & new Audacity versions separate ].

Launch old Audacity by double clicking on the Audacity icon in that folder.

32-bit allows you to use old 32-bit plugins, (but cannot use 64-bit plugins in 32-bit version).

Im using the 3.7.5 version. I updated it on Friday. And no I don’t keep the old installers they get deleted before I download the new ones.

trebor gave you the link for the older versions…

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