Audacity Forum

Hi - I've just purchased an AKAI belt-drive turntable with USB; after downloading Audacity 1.2.5 for my iMac OSX (v10.5.7 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo) I went to Preferences/Recording/Device which only allowed either "Built-in Input", or "Built-in Microphone", despite the AKAI Instruction Manual asking me to select "USB Audio CODEC". Is there some patch to fix this? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated, thanks, Terry Woodhouse (Australia)

I've switched the USB plug to Slot2 & changed the Mac/Hardware/Sound/Preferences for Sound Input to USB Audio Codec, but still no sound out of Mac speakers while playing a record on the AKAI turntable.

Our first problem is Audacity 1.2 no longer supports modern Macs. The combination of Mac/Intel/Leopard pretty much killed off 1.2.5. It was a nice run.

So when you remove Audacity 1.2.5, be sure to trash the preference files so as not to have cross contamination.

Trash Mac Audacity Preferences
http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic ... =10#p34670

After it's all gone, download Audacity 1.3.7 and install that. It should ask you "English?" at first birthday.

Close Audacity and restart the Mac with the turntable turned on and connected. See if the Turntable chipset doesn't turn up in Apple > System Preferences > Hardware > Sound > Input. Select it and the panel sound meter should jump when you play something.

Let's get it that far.

Koz

Hi again - thanks for the advice. I removed all trace of Audacity 1.2.x, & downloaded & installed 1.3.7, closed Audacity,
& restarted the Mac with the turntable running (the turntable chipset didn't turn up, tho). The panel sound meter showed
there was sound input, & as a consequence there was sound coming thru the Mac speakers!

So now all I have to do is familiarize myself with this Audacity software - there was a disk came with the turntable with a
thing on it called "Soundsoap SE" (from Bias software), so should be useful.

I'm a recent Mac convert from Windows PC (after 20 years) so am only gradually getting used to Mac idiosyncracies.

Thanks again for your help

Don't install the SoundSoap. Audacity 1.2 may have needed that because its noise removal was pretty dreadful, but the noise removal in 1.3 is quite good. We have one poster complaining about SoundSoap license nagging.

<<<I'm a recent Mac convert from Windows PC >>>

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