Still a beginner with computer recording.....When recording original music (guitars, vocals, keyboard, etc.) everything goes into the right channel only. I want to put different instruments in different areas of the stereo spectrum. My interface is an M-AUDIO FIREWIRE SOLO device. Any ideas?
Also, all of the effects choices are grayed out and cannot be used. Please help, musicians.
recording goes to right channel and not stereo
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kozikowski
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Re: recording goes to right channel and not stereo
In 1.2, the effects choices only wake up after you select some audio. That doesn't happen in 1.3. We have been recommending that people slide over to 1.3 for any serious work. You can put 1.2 and 1.3 on your machine at the same time as along as you only use one at a time. You can't open up a 1.3 Project in 1.2. Exported sound files open up anywhere.
You can't Save a sound file in Audacity. You have to Export one.
You can, if you wish, launch Audacity and click once inside the red recording meters and they will wake up and start metering the input audio. This is the handy diagnostic mode.
Audacity wakes up from First Birthday in mono. Did you change the preferences to 2-channel (Stereo)? Until you get your sea legs, I would also set 44100, 16-bit, Stereo. You can get fancy later, and this is the quality of a Music CD.
How sure are you that the device doesn't produce a mono track? My USB microphone does, although the software produces two tracks, it's really two-track mono.
You can get from where you are to where you want to be by duplicating the track, creating a L and R identity and then marrying them as a stereo track. Then you can use the standard production tools to place the instrument in the stereo field.
Koz
You can't Save a sound file in Audacity. You have to Export one.
You can, if you wish, launch Audacity and click once inside the red recording meters and they will wake up and start metering the input audio. This is the handy diagnostic mode.
Audacity wakes up from First Birthday in mono. Did you change the preferences to 2-channel (Stereo)? Until you get your sea legs, I would also set 44100, 16-bit, Stereo. You can get fancy later, and this is the quality of a Music CD.
How sure are you that the device doesn't produce a mono track? My USB microphone does, although the software produces two tracks, it's really two-track mono.
You can get from where you are to where you want to be by duplicating the track, creating a L and R identity and then marrying them as a stereo track. Then you can use the standard production tools to place the instrument in the stereo field.
Koz
Re: recording goes to right channel and not stereo
Still can't seem to get effects working. I have tried highlighting a track before recording and tried highlighting the track after recording. Still no effects.
Thanks for the 1.3 advice. I like some features much more.
Thanks for the 1.3 advice. I like some features much more.
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kozikowski
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Re: recording goes to right channel and not stereo
Scrambled 1.2 Audacity installs in Windows are really difficult to fix. I would remove both Audacity programs and only put 1.3 back in.
Audacity 1.3 by itself keeps it's preferences and operating instructions in an easily usable file. Audacity 1.2 buried them in The Dreaded Windows Registry. There are ways to fix 1.2 but they're very painful.
Most of us are in 1.3 for most of our work anyway. 1.3 is in its final development stages to issue Stable 1.4
Koz
Audacity 1.3 by itself keeps it's preferences and operating instructions in an easily usable file. Audacity 1.2 buried them in The Dreaded Windows Registry. There are ways to fix 1.2 but they're very painful.
Most of us are in 1.3 for most of our work anyway. 1.3 is in its final development stages to issue Stable 1.4
Koz