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I'm just now tinkering with Audacity. I have a bevy of questions. But
I'll just ask one at a time while I try to figure out the other stuff.
These may seem really rudimentary. Sorry.

First off, I'm recording stereo audio coming in through my M-Audio
Delta 2496 card. It records fine. But when I go to playback what I've
just recorded (all through audacity) I see the recorded material on
the output level monitor and it's playing just fine.. but I hear
nothing. I've tried all of the various options on Audacity's
"playback" and "recording" selector menu in the preferences menu. What
am I doing wrong? I don't seem to have any trouble playing back other
audio at other times, so I think I have my hardware (soundcard) setup
correctly otherwise.

[Richard Crowley]

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I'm just now tinkering with Audacity. I have a bevy of questions. But
I'll just ask one at a time while I try to figure out the other stuff.
These may seem really rudimentary. Sorry.

First off, I'm recording stereo audio coming in through my M-Audio
Delta 2496 card. It records fine. But when I go to playback what I've
just recorded (all through audacity) I see the recorded material on
the output level monitor and it's playing just fine.. but I hear
nothing. I've tried all of the various options on Audacity's
"playback" and "recording" selector menu in the preferences menu. What
am I doing wrong? I don't seem to have any trouble playing back other
audio at other times, so I think I have my hardware (soundcard) setup
correctly otherwise.

It might be helpful to know what comptuer/operating system
we are dealing with here.

[Philipp Wachtel[_4_]]

Richard Crowley:
docgorpon wrote ...

I'm just now tinkering with Audacity. I have a bevy of questions. But
I'll just ask one at a time while I try to figure out the other
stuff. These may seem really rudimentary. Sorry.

First off, I'm recording stereo audio coming in through my M-Audio
Delta 2496 card. It records fine. But when I go to playback what I've
just recorded (all through audacity) I see the recorded material on
the output level monitor and it's playing just fine.. but I hear
nothing. I've tried all of the various options on Audacity's
"playback" and "recording" selector menu in the preferences menu.
What am I doing wrong? I don't seem to have any trouble playing back
other audio at other times, so I think I have my hardware
(soundcard) setup correctly otherwise.

It might be helpful to know what comptuer/operating system
we are dealing with here.

IF it´s a Windows machine, you could try to copy the settings from the
following screenshots:

http://home.arcor.de/phwachtel/_tmp/...audio_cp_1.jpg
http://home.arcor.de/phwachtel/_tmp/...audio_cp_2.jpg

Even though, I´d assume the "control panel" (= on-screen "mixer" for the
Delta 2496) looks and behaves the same way on other operating systems...

If the SPDIF INPUT is being used, the faders for that should be up and the
"mute" function set to inactive, of course. I don´t use that, so it´s muted
in the screenshot of my personal settings...

The screenshots above are taken from the latest Delta series driver version.
If you don´t already have it, get it from

http://www.m-audio.com/index.php?do=support&tab=driver

The problem might be caused by a "wrong" routing setting in the control
panel. In most situations, one wants to hear the "mixer" settings on the
outputs.


Hope that helps,

Phil