Audacity can set up its own audio device using in Preferences>Devices and will default to using Pulseaudio. On some setups Pulseaudio still has issues for Audacity. To actually be using ALSA directly you have to set it up in Preferences.
First, make sure that nothing else is using sound, so Pulseaudio won't hold an exclusive lock on the soundcard. Then in Preferences>Devices you have "host" which will be ALSA but also "playback" and "recording". It is those two that need to be set to use the soundcard directly, usually that is the line ending in (hw: 0,0) . If you only see (hw:0,1) and higher and you cannot get sound from them, somthing else is playing sound and holding the sound card. There is a PAsuspender program available somewhere that can shut Pulseaudio down temporarily for situations like this, but usually it's enough to shut off system sounds in overall sound configuration and make sure nothing else is playing. On 3/30/2016 at 9:39 AM, "Grant Frank Burton" <bbbaby...@gmail.com> wrote: > >Greetings all > >For a while for me audacity would just crash in Wily when I use >ALSA. When >I use Jack it worked like a charm. >After the last update at least it don't crash but the sound >distorts >sometimes. Is anyone else get that? -- ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list ubuntu-studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
