I have been using Audacity over the past 15+ years, but this year, I have downloaded it onto my new Windows 10 computer: Version 3. 0.4
I am recording through a M-Audio Air 192/4 interface. I can record my first track and listen to it, and sometimes… rarely… I can record a second track while listening to the first track playback in headphones. BUT mostly when I create a new track and hit record I just get a click click and nothing.
I have set up the “Device Toolbar”
I have the “host” setting set to “MME”.
I went into Windows Sound control panel, and set to the same sample rate (preferably 44100) in both the “Recording” tab and the “Playback” tab
I am going round and round with this. I can not find ANY SOLUTION. I have never encountered issues with Audible before.
I have rebooted. I managed to record a second track about 20 minutes ago in a test project. So I start a new project and NOPE. I open the test project again and NOPE will not record a overdubbed track.
I have no idea… I’ve read everything I can find.
I’m not suggesting ProTools as a “solution”, but right now the problem could be almost anything. We need to try to narrow down where the cause of the problem is.
If you can figure out how to use ProTools or Ableton Lite enough to record a few tracks, than that gives a good indication of whether the problem is software or hardware.
Note that ProTools (and Ableton Lite) will use ASIO drivers by default. Audacity uses WDM (MME) by default and does not have “out of the box” support for ASIO. That means that Audacity and ProTools can’t be used at the same time without reconfiguring ProTools to use WDM (Don’t bother trying to do that - just avoid running both apps at the same time).
I did install ProTools a month ago and I couldn’t get it working it all - it was too complex.
All I can tell you is that my interface M-Audio Air 192/4 is identified as Line in and as speakers in Audacity. I vaguley remember not being able to actually get M Audio into ProTools as the interface (if that makes sense).
I can see M Audio as my device through windows sound controller - so I don’t know what else I can do??
WOW… I just spent the past hour downloading and reinstalling ProTools and I remember why I can’t record with it - I set the Playback engine to M-Audio AIR set the sample rate BUT When I go to seup I/O for the input and output or each track I can’t get the M-Audio as a option at all.
OK… back to Audacity.
Yes - it is very happy to record the first track. No trouble at all.
Launch Audacity (if it’s already running, quit and restart) OK
Set the “Project Rate” (lower left corner of the main Audacity window) to 48000 OK
Record a track OK
Record another track: The same thing - I hit the record button and it immediately turns off the monitoring and the play buttons flicker. this is a clicking sound - nothing records.
The error log included Error 126 - so I’m currently scanning/defragging/ fixing system errors and drivers with “Advanced System Repair” - worth a shot.