Audacity Forum

Alright.. so I just bought some recording equipment for my band.

I am running a Presonus fire studio project interface with a Blue Bluebird microphone.

This is all being ran with firewire to my computer which is a Toshiba satellite.

On Audacity it shows the option "presonus firestudio microphone" in the microphone selection but I can not seem to get any signal and cant recored with it.

I am also using Audacity 13.1.3.

help would be great thanks
Jeff

The Interface may be so custom that you're forced to use that and not Audacity. You didn't just buy a simple interface. The physical box is only half the system. The software packages are the other half -- and they're married.


Universal Control
All members of the FireStudio family of interfaces, including the StudioLive 16.4.2 mixer, come bundled with Universal Control software. Universal Control is a powerful, flexible, and easy to use control-panel application that allows you to daisy-chain to up to 4 FireStudio-family devices for a maximum of up to 52 inputs and outputs.

Universal Control consists of the Launch window and the Device window. In the Launch window, you can set the sample rate, clock source, safe mode, buffer size (PC only), and WDM routing (PC only) for all connected FireStudio-series interfaces. Each device is listed at the bottom of the window, along with Device Window buttons that open each interface’s Device window.

The Device window provides level and routing controls for each FireStudio-series interface’s internal mixer, enabling you to set up zero-latency monitor mixes. Input and output metering have been optimized for ultra-fast screen display and minimum CPU usage, and you can give each interface a custom name. You can use any device in the chain as the master clock source, or you can slave the entire chain to an external digital device using any of the available digital inputs in the chain.


Studio One Artist—Plus Gigabytes of Creative Resources

The FireStudio Project is bundled with an exceptional software package, featuring PreSonus Studio One Artist, the amazing new DAW software for Mac OS X and Windows XP and Vista that makes producing high-quality projects easier than ever before. As part of the Studio One Artist package, you get 20 new PreSonus Native Effects plug-ins and virtual instruments and a generous bundle of third-party loops, software, and instrument sounds.


Koz

After you capture the work in one of the included software packages, you can probably export a sound file and use that in Audacity for further production, filtering and effects.

Koz