Audacity is a free audio recorder/editor/mixer. You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, and MP3 files, and more. Use it to edit your sounds using Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, or apply effects to your recordings.
This article shows you how to record audio into Audacity via your Scarlett 2i2 2nd Gen audio interface on Mac. Note these steps are the same for all other Focusrite interfaces.
1) Connect the Scarlett 2i2 2nd Gen interface and open Audacity 2) Ensure 'Core Audio' is selected and the Scarlett interface has been set as the Input and Output device. 3) If you want to record off just the first input of your Scarlett 2i2, select '1 (Mono) Recording Channels '. If you want to record a stereo source (i.e inputs 1&2), you will need to select '2 (Stereo) Recording Channels' 4) Now, connect your guitar, bass, microphone etc to the Scarlett 2i2 and ensure the light around the gain dial lights up green when you play the guitar / bass, sing into the microphone etc. If it doesn't light up, turn the gain dial up. If it lights up red, turn the gain dial down.
5) Click the record button in Audacity. The project will automatically start recording. Click the 'Stop' button to stop the recording. You can then play the recorded audio back by clicking the 'Play' button If needed, our Technical Support team can be contacted.
Portable Audacity OS X Portable Audacity OS X is the binary distribution of the Audacity audio editor for Mac OS X packaged as portable application so you can take your preferences with you. Portable Audacity OS X is the audio editor packaged as portable application so you can carry around with you on any portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive,memory card, other portable device (also on your internal hard disk) as long as it has 24 MB of free space and use on any Mac OS X computer, taking your preferences with you. Download:. (6.6M) Beta: 1.3.3b - UB Requires OS X 10.4.2 or later. Old release:.
(4.0M) Stable: 1.2.4b. (4.7M) Beta: 1.3.0b This Patch will solve Mac OS X Lion 10.7 incompatibility of Portable Applications. How to install. Drag ' Portable Audacity OS X' folder to your portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive, memory card, other portable device (also to your internal hard disk) as long as it has 12 MB of free space. Clicking ' Portable Audacity' will open Audacity from your portable device, wait a while before Audacity start. If a local copy of Audacity is running an alert window allow you to quit it.
Using your data You can copy your user preferences to Portable Audacity when ' Copy preferences' window ask you. So, if you wish to use your preferences you already have on your system, just click 'Yes' when prompt.
Audacity application, preference file and folder are inside the bundle: Portable Audacity.app/Contents/Resources/app/ Audacity is packaged using the Platypus script wrapper from Support Forum Post questions, tips, suggestions, clues, helps, bugs to our Source code. Change log. 1.3.3b r2.0 (12.Jan.2008) Audacity updated to 1.3.3beta Universal Binary. 1.3.2b r2.0 (08.Nov.2006) Audacity updated to 1.3.2beta New shell script.
Added a to restore local preferences after a system crash. Growl style notification windows. Dialog made by CocoaDialog.
10.4.2 OS X version check. Can't be launched on a locked volume. Requires OS X 10.4.2 or later. 1.3.0b r1.0 With Audacity 1.3.0b (beta). 1.2.4b r1.0 First public release.
100% standalone. Portable Audacity is wrapped as application package with Platypus. Preference are automatically copied if desired.