I am using Audacity on Ubuntu 16.04 to record from an electric piano through an input jack. My laptop recognized the recording device and I can see input levels fluctuating when I play from my keyboard (although I can't hear anything). The device toolbar in audacity is empty. When I hit the record button it gives the following message:
"Error opening sound device. Try changing the audio host, recording device and the project sample rate"
I've already tried re-installing my sound drivers. Does anyone know what's going on?
Audacity device toolbar is empty
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Re: Audacity device toolbar is empty
What sort of electric piano, and what is the "input jack" that you refer to?asravan wrote:from an electric piano through an input jack.
How does your laptop show that?asravan wrote:My laptop recognized the recording device
What is the recording device?
Where do you see that?asravan wrote:I can see input levels fluctuating when I play from my keyboard
What options do you have? In a default Ubuntu set-up there is only one option.asravan wrote:Try changing the audio host
How did you do that?asravan wrote:I've already tried re-installing my sound drivers.
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Re: Audacity device toolbar is empty
(Re-installed Alsa)steve wrote:What sort of electric piano, and what is the "input jack" that you refer to?asravan wrote:from an electric piano through an input jack.
Electric Piano: Yamaha P45. I'm using a 3.5 mm to 1/4 inch jack
How does your laptop show that? (Fluctuating amplitudes of signal when I press keys on my keyboard)asravan wrote:My laptop recognized the recording device
What is the recording device? (The keyboard)
Where do you see that? (On the Input tab in the sound settings window - Ubuntu 16.04)asravan wrote:I can see input levels fluctuating when I play from my keyboard
What options do you have? In a default Ubuntu set-up there is only one option.asravan wrote:Try changing the audio host
Could you please elaborate? I don't quite understand what that means. Thanks.
How did you do that?asravan wrote:I've already tried re-installing my sound drivers.
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Re: Audacity device toolbar is empty
Read more at http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php? ... _availableIf Device Toolbar or Devices Preferences show no playback and/or recording devices, this means there are currently no audio devices available to, or recognized by Audacity. There are a few possible causes of this.
You don't have the correct permissions to access the sound device, perhaps because you need to add your user to the "audio" group.
If your system does not use PulseAudio or if you choose the (hw) device in Device Toolbar, another audio application, sound server or service is using the sound device. You will need to disable applications or services that are using the device before Audacity can access it, or share the device among applications using JACK.
If you choose the OSS host (where available) in Device Toolbar, you must check that /dev/dsp (the OSS device) is present.