Trying to record, cursor stays at 0

Hi, i am running Audacity 2.0.5 on OS X Mountain Lion with an M-Audio Fast Track Pro.

Sometimes I go to record, and it won’t let me, it creates a new window but then the cursor just stays at 0, blinking. Usually if I just close audacity, turn the interface off, then back on, and relaunch Audacity, it will typically work, but today it will not record at all no matter what I do. I just used it last night and it gave me no issues at all. I did launch Ableton between then and now, but wasn’t even using it thorough the interface, just the onboard output, and then I closed it to do some basic recordings into Audacity to sample later leading me to where I am now.

Can anyone shed some light as to what is going on, or even possibly a solution? Thank you.

It does that when the data stream stops or becomes damaged for some reason.

M-Audio Fast Track Pro, also known as the Avid M-Audio Fast Track Pro works best when it’s married to an Avid editing system. If you don’t happen to have a multi-thousand dollar Avid, you should make sure you have the latest drivers and interface software. The Fast-Track is not a generic use, plug-it-in-anywhere audio interface.

The latest Audacity is 2.1.1.

http://audacityteam.org/download/mac

Koz

Sometimes you may need to restart the Mac too.


Gale

The Fast Track family is still an Avid product, it hasn’t been sold to M-Audio. For driver support you need to look here:

http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/download/Fast-Track-Pro-Drivers

However, if you have a Core2 Duo Mac with 10.9 (Mavericks) or later, you’re out of luck:

http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/troubleshooting/No-audio-from-USB-Interface-with-Mac-OS-X-Mavericks

There’s no support for these Macs from Avid.