I used the Voice-over recording room for the first time today. It's going to be OK for what I'm doing, but I experienced a number of glitches:

1--Voice tracks are mono, and naturally my microphone input was a mono signal. But PD kept treating it like a stereo signal, throwing the track completely to the left. After approximately 10 re-tries, it finally settled into putting the signal at center.

2--The level meter is of no help. It doesn't react in real time, not in sync with a signal coming in, and tends to just shoot up to red no matter what the level is. I just had to ignore it.

3--I tried the "mute all tracks while recording" selection, so I wouldn't need to keep turning down my sound interface's volume knob. That didn't work so well - It put Xs on all the audio tracks in the project, that was fine, but when I un-checked the selection, it didn't remove the check marks. I had to go through the project, un-checking each track one at a time. Not going to use "mute all" again.

4--There's quite a list of resolutions available for recording, but I can't imagine anyone wanting any but the highest available - The default setting is 8 kHz, 8 Bit, Mono--! omg--do you realize how garbled a recording with that setting would sound? So I searched for the highest setting available - and it's barely acceptable. 48 kHz, 16 Bit, Mon 93 kb. This is a 64 bit program, working only in snazzy, high-speed 64 bit computers - what's with the limitation to 16 Bit audio--?!

5--I saved this "high" setting as my Default - I need to save it, because EVERY time I went to record a new clip, things would have been re-set to the Default setting of 8 kHz, 8 Bit. Why doesn't it stay with the setting I want-?

6--If I didn't want to keep a take, CTRL+Z was easy enough to re-set things, except the recording stays in the media folder, and on the drive. I've never heard of such a thing - if I use CTRL+Z, that should step back and get of everything associated with the last action. The file should be automatically deleted. Instead, I have to wade through the media folder and hand delete all un-used audio clips one by one. Primitive.

Is any of this unusual, or am I just describing the known behavior for this iffy recording tool?

Oh--one more thing. I couldn't figure out what was going on with the fade in and fade out controls - I couldn't make them do anything.

EDIT: I forgot--One more question/comment-- I couldn't see any way to have the audio clips labeled. They're all "Capture" plus a number. No way to know what's what--. ?!

SECOND EDIT - My computer has completely changed since I first posted my DXDIAG - so I just now ran it again. PD power users here will be pleased to see that I have tons of free space on my C drive now - over 200 gigs. I think I have that thing covered now. :

rbowser