[ubuntu-za] Audacity

[Vincent Williams]

On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 11:44 +0200, simone at saxonwoldprimary.co.za wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have just installed Audacity and need to make a voice recording. The  
> tutorial tells me to click on a Devices tab which I don't have, all I  
> have is ALSA default, under Audio I/O.
> In fact several tabs are missing from my preferences menu.
> What have I done wrong, and how can I fix it?
> Any ideas will be welcomed.

Hi Simone,

I'm assuming that you want to select the input device and so on? You
probably need to enable the mixer toolbar as follows:

View--> Toolbars-->Mixer Toolbar

This will give you a drop down list of input devices, including input
and output level controls.

Cheers,
Vincent