Audacity Forum

I am able to get my ufo202 to work great on my old Windows XP computer, but as I posted earlier have had numerous problems
with my Windows 7 computer. With some great help from Koz and Steve, as well as the manual, I was able to work most of them out.
The only problem I seem to still have with the Windows 7 (which I would rather use due to a much better sound card) is that I can't seem
to get Audacity to display "USB Codec" in the recording preferences, only Realtek and Primary sound drivers. When I plug the UFO into my
USB, I can set my speakers to (default) USB Audio Codec, but still can not find the option any where on the software. I have scoured the
manual for a solution and seem to be doing everything as it says correctly but with no results!
Any advice so I can start recording with my new computer? the old one works smoothly and great, but records/tapes would just sound better
on the new one!
Thanks again for all your past help, and in advance for this one!
Cheers

You may need to go into Windows Control Panels for that. If Windows can't find your device, Audacity is helpless.

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php? ... bar_Issues

Any advice so I can start recording with my new computer? the old one works smoothly and great, but records/tapes would just sound better

I don't know that I would fall in love with that idea. The quality of the sound happens inside the UFO-202, and has nothing to do with the computer. Once the UFO202 gets done with it, the music is all ones and zeros indistinguishable from bank statements. If your computer damages the music after that, you have a very sick computer.

You can use your UFO-202 as the only sound card on either of your computers. Plug your headphones into the UFO-202 and use the UFO-202's Stereo Line-Out to connect to an external music system as well as the Line-In/Phono-In to capture vinyl or other stereo work. Once you do that, the computer quality is completely beside the point and any machine that can keep up with the music data will work.

It still tickles me to watch this, but people borrow my killer portable sound system all the time to do parties. The party mix is generally played from an iPad or even an iPod. One of the Systems people has a program on his iPad that simulates a disco mixer and "turntables." That's data management and has little or no bearing on the sound of the party. After the iPod/iPad converts the music to analog (generally excellent Mac hardware) then it's up to me, the Klipsches and the Crowns to make the party roll. Any computer would work and I've done this with a ratty laptop and a UCA-202 (a cousin) when I couldn't find my iPod.

It's the conversion in and out of analog that's the critical step and you could do worse than get two UFO-202a, one for each computer and leave them there.

Koz