audacity mixer devices?

Vista 32/64 bit system w/SP1.
Creative X-Fi Xtreme Gamer sound card.
Audacity version 1.2.6.

Audacity is installed and the LADSPA plugins are installed.
Audacity has the device selection (drop down box) in the
mixer toolbar greyed out.

I have set the sound card recording devices to "Line-in" as
the default device.
The sound card has 4 jacks (Orange, blue, green and
white). I have been told that the white jack is a flexi-jack
that has the line-in (and Mic) function.

I'm using the headphones output jack from my cassette/cd
player to the line-in via a standard audio cable.

How do i turn on the audacity input device?

A search of "audacity" turned up lots of info but does not
cover un-active device selection. Useful info BTW.

thanks,
savagcl

 

TonyT,

You should see whats going on over at the soundblaster forum. Page after
page of problems with any X-Fi card and vista. Looks like creative just
rushed a product out that "Kinda" worked with vista (and vista sound routines
are far below equaling XP, my opinion of course). Either way the
consumer gets it in the neck.

savagcl

 

Forgot to reply to your msg.

Good idea, will have to remove the creative sound card so that the realtek
sound would come on-line. It gets automatically turned off as soon as it
sees a sound card.

will try it just as soon as i can find a reasonable good recording software
package. Audacity I have, but the input device drop-down menu is greyed
out. Ideas on how to make it active???

thanks,
savagcl

 

http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Mixer_Toolbar_Issues
Input selector greyed-out, lacking the expected choices, or apparently not recording from the indicated source. I had the same problem when I build my new system using the onboard sound that the drop down was grayed out.

 

I got the audiograbber from the web, had to get the latest
Lame and Blade encoders from the same site. It works very
good. Once i got the volume levels worked out It does the
job.

Will still play with the audacity program and see if its any
better.

If (when) i get it working will post here.

Thanks for the help,
savagcl

 

Follow-up.

Audacity will work in XP, no problems.

However, still no devices showing in vista altho i do have multiple
devices showing in the vista sound window. Line-in and 'what u hear'
is present.

Creative drivers (latest) must have brought back the 'what u hear'
because it wasn't there before.

So, the question is: what is stopping audacity from seeing the
connected devices in vista (or is it vista)??

thanks,
savagcl