Setup:
Yet when I record, I end up with silence.
Over in Wavepad, I don’t have this problem - it records fine - although I have a different problem there in that the recording is mono i.e. it’s squashed my stereo width into everything being front and centre.
Thank you in advance for any help and belated merry Christmas!
Try changing the host and not just the recording device. It’s been a while since I did this with Audacity, but pay attention to the host as well as the playback device. It works, I just had to fiddle with it until it worked.
I’m on windows so I don’t know what to tell you to choose if you’re on a mac, but I just confirmed that I’m able to record to audacity directly if I select:
host > windows wasapi
playback device > (insert your speakers/monitoring device here)
recording device > digital audio interface (elektron digitakt)
recording channels > 2 (stereo) recording channels
using these settings I can record audio over USB into Audacity.
Nailed it! Thanks so much - I had never seen noticed the “host” option. I thought it was just a case of selecting recording source.
On the subject of Audacity, is it just me, or does it fail to spot changes in what devices are plugged in? If I disconnect the Digitakt, it remains there in the Audacity menu. Likewise if I connect headphones (to the laptop), these fail to register. I have to restart Audacity. You get that too? (I’m on Windows like you.)
You have close/open, or go to “transport > rescan audio devices”
Apparently, it’s not designed on a platform that supports auto refresh or any kind of immediate updates to hardware profiles upon driver detection or removal, but for a freeware program I’m not complaining.
Glad that worked for you, have a nice new year.
Ah, good find - I wouldn’t have spotted that. Yeah for what you get for free there’s certainly no complaints.
Have a good new year yourself and thanks.