Audacity Forum

i have audacity 1.2.6 and when i record a live track, the playback goes double time, but the pitch is all fine and everything... whats going on?

<<<i record a live track,>>>

The latest slippery words has "Live" meaning you captured something "Live" from the internet, not you sang in front of a microphone with your guitar. Which is it?

Koz

live instrument recording using my mixer board into the line in on my soundcard.

It may be that your computer can not dump the data fast enough onto your hard drive and is dropping half of the data. What sample rate and bit depth are you using?
How much free space on your C: drive?
Have you defragmented the C: drive lately?

ive tried all 3 sample rates, but i leave it at 16bit cuz thats what my soundcard is.
i have 30GB left on my storage device that i use for it(set in the preferences)
and i defreg it usually every week or so. i just did it 2 days ago

<<<i have 30GB left on my storage device>>>

"Storage Device?" Can you talk about that?

How much room is there on your System Drive? Can we assume that's where Audacity is running?

Koz

my storage device is just my second hard drive i have inside my computer
20GB on my C drive

[Stunned blank look]

It's official. I have no idea.

Speed changes almost always happen when the computer isn't going fast enough for some reason.

...... the existing clip plays fast but the pitch doesn't go up .......

If you open the clip in a plain, non-complicated timeline with no recording or sharing or anything -- straight playback, does it play OK?

Talk about the computer. Include processor speed and amount of memory.

Koz

ive had this program running before with no problems, now after i formated my system its never worked the same.

the weird thing is, i opened my saved .aup files that i had from before and they play back perfectly fine. with my new stuff im trying to record just wont play back properly
and another thing thats weird. if i restart my computer and run audacity after comp loads up, it wont record anything. but once i open up "Winamp Media Player" and play a song. audacity will record after that, but the playback is still messed up

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System Information
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Time of this report: 6/4/2009, 20:55:36
Machine name: GUBERX
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3 (2600.xpsp_sp3_gdr.090206-1234)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: INTEL_
System Model: D865PERL
BIOS: BIOS Date: 02/13/05 22:02:08 Ver: 08.00.10
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz (2 CPUs)
Memory: 1022MB RAM
Page File: 632MB used, 1829MB available
Windows Dir: C:WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 5.03.2600.5512 32bit Unicode

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Display Devices
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Card name: ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro AGP
Manufacturer: ATI Technologies Inc.
Chip type: ATI display adapter AGP (0x9587)
DAC type: Internal DAC(400MHz)
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Display Memory: 512.0 MB
Current Mode: 1680 x 1050 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Monitor: SyncMaster T220/T220G,SyncMaster Magic T220/T220G(Digital)
Monitor Max Res: 1680,1050
Driver Name: ati2dvag.dll
Driver Version: 6.14.0010.6727 (English)
DDI Version: 9 (or higher)
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 9/14/2007 07:05:06, 268800 bytes
WHQL Logo'd: No
WHQL Date Stamp: None
VDD: n/a
Mini VDD: ati2mtag.sys
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Video Accel: ModeMPEG2_C ModeMPEG2_D ModeWMV8_A ModeWMV9_A
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Registry: OK
DDraw Status: Enabled
D3D Status: Enabled
AGP Status: Enabled

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Sound Devices
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Description: Xtreme Sound PCI Audio Device
Default Sound Playback: Yes
Default Voice Playback: Yes
Hardware ID: PCIVEN_13F6&DEV_0111&SUBSYS_011113F6&REV_10
Manufacturer ID: 1
Product ID: 100
Type: WDM
Driver Name: cmuda3.sys
Driver Version: 5.12.0001.0046 (English)
Driver Attributes: Final Debug
WHQL Logo'd: No
Date and Size: 12/6/2005 10:12:08, 1355456 bytes
Other Files:
Driver Provider: Diamond Multimedia
HW Accel Level: Full
Cap Flags: 0xF5F
Min/Max Sample Rate: 100, 100000
Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 65, 63
Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 65, 63
HW Memory: 0
Voice Management: No
EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: Yes, Yes
I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: Yes, Yes
Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): Yes
Registry: OK

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Sound Capture Devices
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Description: Xtreme Sound PCI Audio Device
Default Sound Capture: Yes
Default Voice Capture: Yes
Driver Name: cmuda3.sys
Driver Version: 5.12.0001.0046 (English)
Driver Attributes: Final Debug
Date and Size: 12/6/2005 10:12:08, 1355456 bytes
Cap Flags: 0x41
Format Flags: 0xCC0

well, i fixed my own problem. I came to realize that my windows sound recorder wasnt working either. so i un-installed my sound devices and re-installed them, and now it works fine
thnx for u help people.