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This is very cool and I'm really interested in how it all works out for you. Please keep in touch and let me know. I have a laptop that I think would be perfect for home recording but I'd need to get a real good soundcard.
Distribution: Mandrake 9.1, 10.1, SuSE 8.1 pro, 10.1, Red Hat 8.0/9.0
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OK, I wanted to wait a couple of days before saying that Audacity is working fiiiiine! I don't know what some of you might have in mind, but for me it was exactly what I was looking for!!
Up to now, I can record myself and a guitar in seperate stereo or mono channels, and am now busy with the editing process of a track...that's a bit tricky though.
The installation, was a breeze. The microphone configuration took longer, given that I didn't now that what is referred to as a "mixer" or "xmixer", was for Linux users "kmix"....not that I knew what kmix was before either, but now I know that you need to tweak this in order for the mic to work....and that was it!
Anyways, highly recommended...all thumbs up from me!
PS: The link for Audacity software is somewhere in the threads above...
Hey vous, I just shot you an e-mail, but I washoping maybe someone else could help me out here, or I'll start another thread I guess.
Anyway-
I've got audacity already installd on my distro, (A Knoppix 3.2 harddrive install, which is basically Debian woody)
Anyway, it records fine, but when I go to lay a second track, i can't hear what's been previously recorded.
I went to edit the options to enable it, however I can't change anything- it tells me I have an invalid sound device setting (/dev/dsp ) which is correct, as far as I know-- that's what everything else is set to use, and It will record one track with this setting.
Now, anyone think of a way to help? I tried changing the permissions to /dev/dsp with chmod +rwx /dev/dsp , but no luck.
I have tried searches for help in other areas, but no luck. So...maybe someone here could shed some light on my problem. I am trying to get a recording application working, I have given up on KRec for the time, and just this morning downloaded Audacity from www.rpmfind.net, the install seemed to work , no errors anyway. Yet, when I start audacity I get a "Host Error" and thats it. It will not start. I have other sound applications working great, so my hardware is not the issue, and if I switch over to windows2k- I have a dual boot system configured for the time being- I can record just fine. I have searched for any reference to this error, but without success. I am running Mandrake Linux 9.1 distribution. (It does puzzle me also that KRec will not work, it seems a simple program and it will at least start but will not recognize any input. ARTS is configured correctly as well as my audio mixer. ) If anyone has encountered this problem with audacity and has the solution, please let me know. I have wondered, but am at work now so I cant try it, if maybe the ARTS sound server is the problem with audacity. Please, any audacity gurus out there, I need help!!!
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