Audacity Forum

sergeromero wrote:I can only tell you what I've experienced as a user.

A Guitar Port user? Can you confirm if it is necessary to have the Guitar Port connected before opening Audacity? Any details that you could give about your (working) set-up are sure to help other Guitar Port users.

In my setup it IS necessary to have the Guitar Port connected BEFORE opening Audacity in order to have the option on the Preferences window.

I uninstalled and reinstalled. Still no luck. When I plugged in the hardware there was no Found New Hardware wizard once again, although a balloon appeared from the system tray saying it was installing device drivers or something similar. Everything audio-related still refuses to start up if the GuitarPort is already plugged in. With reference to the "possible workaround" given a few posts previously, I went to Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Manage Audio Devices and even that crashed when I tried to click the "Recording" tab.

Anyway, the current impression I have is that the computer's recognition (or lack thereof) of the device is not a problem - in fact, if I mouse-over the speaker icon in the system tray the thumbnail reads "Volume: 100 Speakers 2- GuitarPort", from which I get the impression that it is properly installed etc. It would appear that I simply need to have it plugged in before running Audacity in order for Audacity to recognise it. And this means that what seriously needs to be resolved is the fact that any audio-related program will crash on start-up if GuitarPort is already plugged in.

Thanks for all your help guys.

Without going back over the whole thing... Does the GuitarPort have a software driver or separate interface software? Does it have its own recorder? If it does, there may be a reason for that.

Koz