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Add note that Real-Time effects may cause recording dropouts #49

Closed petersampsonaudacity closed 7 months ago

petersampsonaudacity commented 7 months ago

It may be worth adding on not on the Support page for real-time effects to the effect that they may (but only may) cause recording dropouts. https://support.audacityteam.org/audio-editing/using-realtime-effects

This emerged after I have been working offline with a user who was experiencing dropouts - he tried all the suggestions in the current FAQ: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/faq_recording_troubleshooting.html#skips but to no avail.

Further experimentation led him to turning off all the real-time effects he has applied to all 11 tracks in a multi-track project. And lo and behold this cured the dropouts on recording the 12th track.

I have added a note to the FAQ in the 3.5.0 alpha manual: image

LWinterberg commented 7 months ago

I'd say the realtime effects is the wrong place for that, but it would be worth putting it into https://support.audacityteam.org/troubleshooting/solving-recording-problems

LWinterberg commented 7 months ago

It is now mentioned in https://support.audacityteam.org/troubleshooting/solving-recording-problems/recording-dropouts-gaps-skips-and-glitches