Help for Audacity on Windows.
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jaja714
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by jaja714 » Thu Oct 10, 2013 3:00 pm
Gale Andrews wrote:To make sure, open the Audacity Recording Preferences and set the Audio to Buffer to as low as you can without the playback or recording breaking up.
OMG ... that did it!!!! Why didn't the people at FocusRite know this?
FYI: Audacity sets the default buffering to 100 and strongly recommends you leave it that way. I tried a setting of 0 and 1 and couldn't play anything back. However, the setting of 50 was MAGICAL!!!
Thanks Gale!!!
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steve
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by steve » Thu Oct 10, 2013 3:22 pm
jaja714 wrote:Why didn't the people at FocusRite know this?
To be fair, I've not known that setting to make a lot of difference unless set to extremes, so I'm quite surprised that a change from 100 to 50 has made so much difference. Thanks for the feedback - useful information.
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Gale Andrews
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by Gale Andrews » Fri Oct 11, 2013 1:51 am
steve wrote:I'm quite surprised that a change from 100 to 50 has made so much difference. Thanks for the feedback - useful information.
If the Saffire has a buffer setting and it's set too high, it could be the explanation.
Gale
