Audacity on Big Sur - NOOB NEEDS HELP INSTALL ETC

Hi there,

I’ve purchased a Focusrite Scarlet, I’ve got my Apex 540 and a 2020 iMac with BigSur 11.4. I’ve got mic into scarlet, scarlet into iMac usb, I believe? I’ve downloaded/uploaded Audacity correctly, I don’t think I’ve figured out how, per my agent, to load effects library.

I’m in need of some help for the following:

  1. Making sure Audacity is installed correctly
  2. Loading effects
  3. Getting my iMac to read the mic & scarlet


    and then a little help with recording as I do understand how to “work” recording items such as garageband/protools etc, just not how to set up…

Please,
your friendly little Canadian

Here is a link to Getting Started in Audacity.

If you have a specific effect or effects you are interested in, please specify. I would avoid loading an effects library willy-nilly. It is likely to bite you in the end. Note that Audacity comes shipped with many many effects.

What’s the job/task/goal? Sometimes knowing that can give us a good idea of the tools you need. For example, most of the tools needed for successful audiobook and voiceover reading are built into Audacity 3.0.2.

Koz