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Sound Source
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 12:30 pm
by alan.dryer
I used to have a drop down menu I could use to tell audacity whether I was recordin from a mike, line in, or an instrument. I had to re-install after a computer crash and this menu seems to have disappeared. Any thoughts? Help much appreciated!
Alan
Re: Sound Source
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 7:48 am
by kozikowski
A crash can cause the Audacity Preferences file to go nuts. Find audacity.cfg on your machine and trash it. Restart audacity and it should start from First Birthday settings. You know you succeeded when Audacity asks you English??
If you used to have Audacity 1.2 on your machine, this may be a lot harder. 1.2 burned preferences into the Dreaded Windows Registry and sometimes 1.3 will try to read those preferences settings.
Koz
Re: Sound Source
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 8:19 am
by alan.dryer
Ok - tried that, and thank you for the help, but still no drop down menu!!
Any other ideas?
Re: Sound Source
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 4:19 pm
by kozikowski
When you opened up Audacity after the trashing, did it ask you if you wanted English as your language? that's really important.
Koz
Re: Sound Source
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 6:42 pm
by TSMusic
alan.dryer wrote:I used to have a drop down menu I could use to tell audacity whether I was recordin from a mike, line in, or an instrument. I had to re-install after a computer crash and this menu seems to have disappeared. Any thoughts? Help much appreciated!
Alan
What are you using for a sound card?
Tony
Re: Sound Source
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 9:10 pm
by steve
View menu > Toolbars > Mixer Toolbar.
Re: Sound Source
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 3:09 am
by ku3xr
If you use the Edit Preferences menu to choose your Audio I / O , DO NOT !!! use Windows Directsound. This will cause the Audio input selection menu to disappear. Stay with the MME selection. Hope this is useful to someone, have a great day.
Re: Sound Source
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 6:19 pm
by steve
There are significant advantages to using Direct Sound rather than MME, but different users are likely to get different mileage from that option. If you have trouble with Direct Sound, then yes you can fall back to MME, but if Direct Sound works correctly with your hardware, then you should probably use it as it will generally provide better performance (and is capable of recording at bit depths greater than 16 bit if supported by the hardware).
Re: Sound Source
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 4:26 pm
by ku3xr
The one thing I forgot to mention in my post is that I'm running WIN98SE. When I try Windows Direct, Audacity automatically defaults to the line input, and there is no menu to change it. It will record, but I can't change the source. I haven't tried it on my Win XP machine.