macOS 10.13.6
Audacity 2.4.1
I'm using Audacity for the first time. I'm using a Sony Walkman Professional with M-AUDIO Fast Track Pro interface.
I recorded a stereo track from the cassette source material. In the Audacity file, the pitch is slightly elevated and vocals are a bit sped up a la The Chipmunks. The quality of the Audacity track has lots of crackling.
Any ideas?
Peter
Cassette to Mac - audacity file is faster with lots of signal noise
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This forum is for Audacity on macOS 10.4 and later.Please state which version of macOS you are using,
and the exact three-section version number of Audacity from "Audacity menu > About Audacity".
Audacity 1.2.x and 1.3.x are obsolete and no longer supported. If you still have those versions, please upgrade at https://www.audacityteam.org/download/.
The old forums for those versions are now closed, but you can still read the archives of the 1.2.x and 1.3.x forums.
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Re: Cassette to Mac - audacity file is faster with lots of signal noise
Did the Fast Track come with software and did you install it?
That's not necessarily a good thing. The Fast Track should just plug in to the Mac and go. If you configured their software wrong, you could have a mismatch between the Fast Track and Audacity.
Control+Tap or Right-Click the sound file > Get Info. Look down the Info panel to More Info, Sample Rate. What does it say?
Koz
That's not necessarily a good thing. The Fast Track should just plug in to the Mac and go. If you configured their software wrong, you could have a mismatch between the Fast Track and Audacity.
Control+Tap or Right-Click the sound file > Get Info. Look down the Info panel to More Info, Sample Rate. What does it say?
Koz
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Re: Cassette to Mac - audacity file is faster with lots of signal noise
Check in Audio-MIDI Setup that the Fast Track is operating at the same sample rate as Audacity.
This page in the wiki might help.
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This page in the wiki might help.
-- Bill
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Re: Cassette to Mac - audacity file is faster with lots of signal noise
Desktop > Go > Utilities > Audio/MIDI Setup.
Koz
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