Nyquist returns value... but why???

[djblanch]

Thanks, Steve, for confirming. I hate to have to do reinstalls -- they always seem cumbersome and messy -- but it may be the best fix. I appreciate the support (moral and otherwise!)

[djblanch]

Well, a reinstall seems to have solved the Tremolo problem. I still have to load in the peripherals to allow me to save mp3's, but Audacity is back to normal so far. Thanks for the assist!

Dave

[steve]

You're welcome.
Any idea how it went wrong in the first place?

[djblanch]

Whatever it was, it wasn't intentional... and it wasn't the result of anything I'm aware of. I'll keep an eye on what happens if/when I run any new programs which might have affected Audacity, but I suspect I'll never catch the little green men.

[djblanch]

Thanks for the help that was given to my previous Nyquist problem. Reinstalling seems to have fixed it. But now there's a NEW one! I downloaded 2.0.4 the day it came out. I was excited about the "Buzz Tone" option under the "Generate" menu. However, every time I've tried it, I've gotten an error message saying "Nyquest did not return audio". I don't know what that means! I've tried several other "Generate" items, and even when all the defaults are left as they are, I still get the same message. Is there a way to reset or reinstall Nyquist? Thanks for any knowledgeable assistance!

Dave

[steve]

I've gotten an error message saying "Nyquest did not return audio".

Try running it again but press the "debug" button instead of the OK button.
After the plug-in has completed there will be another window open - this is the "debug window" that may contain information about what went wrong. Copy that information into your reply.

[djblanch]

Thanks. What I got when I pressed Debug was "error: unbound function - MULT". Does that help, doc? :-}

Dave

[djblanch]

While we're at at it, 2.0.4 won't let me import audio into an existing track, which I WAS able to do in 2.0.3. (I couldn't open a sound file, but I could create a new file in Audacity, put in empty tracks, then import a sound file.) The message below is what I got from the crash report when I tried to import a sound titled "MBuzz1min.wav" (no odd characters or spaces). I'm running OS 10.7.5 on a MacBook. I'd appreciate any feedback from knowledgeable diagnosticians, which I'm definitely not. Thanks!

Dave


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Process:         Audacity [43278]
Path:            /Applications/Audacity 2.0.4 ƒ/Audacity 2.0.4.app/Contents/MacOS/Audacity
Identifier:      net.sourceforge.audacity
Version:         2.0.4.0 (2.0.4.0)
Code Type:       X86 (Native)
Parent Process:  launchd [282]

Date/Time:       2013-09-09 17:26:54.664 -0700
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.7.5 (11G63)
Report Version:  9

Interval Since Last Report:          890405 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           21
Per-App Interval Since Last Report:  15002 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   10
Anonymous UUID:                      367D236E-3E77-4854-8CC6-2708F0C40634

Crashed Thread:  0

Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000001186ffe

VM Regions Near 0x1186ffe:
    MALLOC metadata        000000000117b000-0000000001186000 [   44K] rw-/rwx SM=PRV  
--> MALLOC guard page      0000000001186000-0000000001187000 [    4K] ---/rwx SM=NUL  
    VM_ALLOCATE            0000000001187000-000000000118c000 [   20K] rw-/rwx SM=PRV  

Thread 0 Crashed:
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1   ???                           	0x9a6c91fa 0 + 2590806522
2   ???                           	0x9a6ef450 0 + 2590962768
3   ???                           	0x9a6eb1f9 0 + 2590945785
4   ???                           	0x9a6dde92 0 + 2590891666
5   ???                           	0x9a6ddc97 0 + 2590891159
6   ???                           	0x9a6ddc37 0 + 2590891063
7   ???                           	0x9a6e4546 0 + 2590917958
8   ???                           	0x9a6e4a6f 0 + 2590919279
9   ???                           	0x9a6d2456 0 + 2590843990
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11  ???                           	0x0043cdc5 0 + 4443589
12  ???                           	0x0043ced3 0 + 4443859
13  ???                           	0x0043cab8 0 + 4442808
14  ???                           	0x004ea4b9 0 + 5153977
15  ???                           	0x005567e6 0 + 5597158
16  ???                           	0x004ecaa3 0 + 5163683
17  ???                           	0x00037a7b 0 + 227963
18  ???                           	0x00555fe1 0 + 5595105
19  ???                           	0x0055605b 0 + 5595227
20  ???                           	0x00125b7b 0 + 1203067
21  ???                           	0x00199aa5 0 + 1677989
22  ???                           	0x001511b2 0 + 1380786
23  ???                           	0x0023e1f0 0 + 2351600
24  ???                           	0x0018d3eb 0 + 1627115
25  ???                           	0x0059b0e3 0 + 5877987
26  ???                           	0x0059b25f 0 + 5878367
27  ???                           	0x0059b62f 0 + 5879343
28  ???                           	0x004bbaaf 0 + 4962991
29  ???                           	0x004201a8 0 + 4325800
30  ???                           	0x004514ef 0 + 4527343
31  ???                           	0x9a621c0c 0 + 2590120972
32  ???                           	0x9a49d313 0 + 2588529427
33  ???                           	0x9a49c790 0 + 2588526480
34  ???                           	0x9a4b1571 0 + 2588611953
35  ???                           	0x9a6220d0 0 + 2590122192
36  ???                           	0x9a62213a 0 + 2590122298
37  ???                           	0x9a68d98d 0 + 2590562701
38  ???                           	0x9a4edd79 0 + 2588859769
39  ???                           	0x9a67e88c 0 + 2590501004
40  ???                           	0x9a67e987 0 + 2590501255
41  ???                           	0x004481d0 0 + 4489680
42  ???                           	0x003e64ba 0 + 4089018
43  ???                           	0x9a621c0c 0 + 2590120972
44  ???                           	0x9a49d313 0 + 2588529427
45  ???                           	0x9a49c790 0 + 2588526480
46  ???                           	0x9a4b1571 0 + 2588611953
47  ???                           	0x9a4b1d27 0 + 2588613927
48  ???                           	0x9a49d7ce 0 + 2588530638
49  ???                           	0x9a49c790 0 + 2588526480
50  ???                           	0x9a4b1571 0 + 2588611953
51  ???                           	0x003e4056 0 + 4079702
52  ???                           	0x003e412f 0 + 4079919
53  ???                           	0x003fca53 0 + 4180563
54  ???                           	0x0048f68f 0 + 4781711
55  ???                           	0x004698d3 0 + 4626643
56  ???                           	0x0054a34a 0 + 5546826
57  ???                           	0x0003f24b 0 + 258635
58  ???                           	0x0003efae 0 + 257966
59  ???                           	0x0003eed5 0 + 257749

Thread 1:
0   ???                           	0x9be4c90a 0 + 2615462154
1   ???                           	0x9a91f853 0 + 2593257555

Thread 2:
0   ???                           	0x9be49d36 0 + 2615450934
1   ???                           	0x9cdcc439 0 + 2631713849
2   ???                           	0x00050234 0 + 328244
3   ???                           	0x9ce1eed9 0 + 2632052441
4   ???                           	0x9ce226de 0 + 2632066782

Thread 3:: com.apple.CFSocket.private
0   ???                           	0x9be4bb42 0 + 2615458626
1   ???                           	0x9ce1eed9 0 + 2632052441
2   ???                           	0x9ce226de 0 + 2632066782

Thread 4:
0   ???                           	0x9be4c02e 0 + 2615459886
1   ???                           	0x9ce226fe 0 + 2632066814

Thread 5:
0   ???                           	0x9be4c02e 0 + 2615459886
1   ???                           	0x9ce226fe 0 + 2632066814

Thread 6:: com.apple.appkit-heartbeat
0   ???                           	0x9be4bbb2 0 + 2615458738
1   ???                           	0x9cdd3558 0 + 2631742808
2   ???                           	0x991246da 0 + 2568111834
3   ???                           	0x9b019e25 0 + 2600574501
4   ???                           	0x9b019dd5 0 + 2600574421
5   ???                           	0x9ce1eed9 0 + 2632052441
6   ???                           	0x9ce226de 0 + 2632066782

Thread 7:

Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
  eax: 0x00000000  ebx: 0x016285c0  ecx: 0x00000036  edx: 0xffb202c0
  edi: 0x01e4a3e0  esi: 0x01666d66  ebp: 0xbfffdc88  esp: 0xbfffdc7c
   ss: 0x00000023  efl: 0x00010286  eip: 0x9cdf733b   cs: 0x0000001b
   ds: 0x00000023   es: 0x00000023   fs: 0x00000000   gs: 0x0000000f
  cr2: 0x01186ffe
Logical CPU: 0

Binary Images:
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External Modification Summary:
  Calls made by other processes targeting this process:
    task_for_pid: 34
    thread_create: 0
    thread_set_state: 0
  Calls made by this process:
    task_for_pid: 0
    thread_create: 0
    thread_set_state: 0
  Calls made by all processes on this machine:
    task_for_pid: 15182900
    thread_create: 0
    thread_set_state: 0

VM Region Summary:
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Writable regions: Total=143.5M written=19.9M(14%) resident=65.9M(46%) swapped_out=3812K(3%) unallocated=77.7M(54%)
 
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[steve]

What I got when I pressed Debug was "error: unbound function - MULT".

This is similar to your original problem. "MULT" is a standard Nyquist function. If MULT is unbound then there's something badly wrong with your Audacity installation because part of it is missing/not found.

This should not keep happening. Does your computer have other problems? How regularly does your computer crash? Can you check that the hard drive is OK? Can you check the computer RAM?

Sorry I can't help with the crash report, I don't use Macs.

[billw58]

While we're at at it, 2.0.4 won't let me import audio into an existing track, which I WAS able to do in 2.0.3.

Please see this thread: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 45#p222245

This is a known issue and we're working on it.

-- Bill