Enter key toggles selection mode for the highlighted track, but, doesn't
perform actual selection itself - AFAIK.
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
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On 2017-08-02 04:22, James Kelm wrote:
Dear David,
Thank you for your great suggestion, although it has now led me to feel rather silly! LOLL
My effects are working fine now, and I am slowly getting my DAWS completely set up. I had been recording a track, and then pressing the enter key to select it. When I checked, it said that it was selected. By doing this I could raise and lower the track’s volume, move its panning settings, etc. I could work with the selected track, but I couldn’t use any of the effects. After reading David’s response, I decided to try something. With the first track that I had recorded, rather than simply pressing the enter key to select, I did a select all. Even though I only had a single track, I still did a select all. Then suddenly everything started working! All of my effects were there, and life became good! *smile* I don’t know why a select all would do something that pressing the enter key would not do, but it’s all working now. Thank you David!
Respectfully,
James
*From:* David Bailes <mailto:drbailes@xxxxxxxxx>
*Sent:* Tuesday, August 01, 2017 10:43 AM
*To:* audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
*Subject:* [audacity4blind] Re: Audacity will not recognize the effects that loaded with it...
Hi James,
did you try pressing ctrl+A? This selects all the tracks, and selects a time range - you have to do both to select audio.
David.
On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 4:37 PM, James Kelm <jameskelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:jameskelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Dear David,
I have selected an audio track and double checked it to make
sure that it is selected. But Audacity still will not make any
effects available. It’s really strange, because I can go to the
Audacity Plug-Ins folder in Program Files, and all the effects are
there. I would have thought that perhaps there was a conflict
between Audacity and the effect files, but they are the actual
effect files that came with my Audacity.
James
*From:* David Bailes <mailto:drbailes@xxxxxxxxx>
*Sent:* Tuesday, August 01, 2017 4:11 AM
*To:* audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
*Subject:* [audacity4blind] Re: Audacity will not recognize the
effects that loaded with it...
Hi James,
could you just check whether the problem is that you have no audio
selected. If you press Ctrl+A to select all the audio, are the
items in the Effect menu now available?
David.
On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 7:15 PM, James Kelm
<jameskelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:jameskelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Howdy...
Well apparently I have an issue that is defeating me, and I
hope that one of you can help me out.
My problem is simply that when I install Audacity 2.0.6
onto a computer with XP Professional, it installs really
well. I have now installed and uninstalled Audacity a bunch
of different times, and I have tried a bunch of different
versions. Audacity 2.1.3 will load on the computer, but when
I try to start the program I get an error message that says
that Audacity has failed to initialize properly, and it then
just goes away. I have loaded several things that was
supposed to fix this issue, but non of them have helped. This
is why I am working with Audacity 2.0.6 on the specific XP
Professional laptop.
So now 2.0.6 is working very well, and I'm happy. I'm
learning Audacity, and am really loving it! My problem is
that everything that is listed in the Effects menu is,
unavailable. I have gone to Program Files in Windows to the
Audacity folder, and there has been two folders that were
created when I installed Audacity. One of the folders is
called Plug-Ins, and the other folder has the name of a
particular type of effect file, but I can't remember what it
is, and can not get to the laptop in question right now. But
when I have looked in these two folders, there are a bunch of
effect files. I have done a search, and did not find any
other Plug-Ins folders, or anything else that I thought may be
confusing Audacity. I have gone to the Preferences section of
Audacity and have made sure that all of the effect types are
checked, as well as the check box that allows Audacity to
search for effect files the next time it is started. It
actually comes up with a screen that says that it is loading
files, but when it is finished and I land on the track view, I
have no effects that are functioning. I have made sure that
one of my sound files is selected, but nothing seems to work. It is frustrating because Audacity is working great, other
than for the fact that it will not make friends with the
effects that were with it when I installed Audacity.
Help!!!
James
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