Audacity Forum

Gale and Koz: Thank you both so much for your patience in my misunderstandings! I think I understand now the limitations and options. Building and compiling my own copy of Audacity from the source code with ASIO would stretch my technical limits. I am certain I could do it, but it would require more...

Koz: Excellent news! So I'm reading here that Audacity 1.3 will solve my immediate problem in that when I sing to a recorded piano track, I will be able to hear my voice as it records "close enough" to real-time so that it won't distract me. I'm also understanding that if I'm overdubbing, the vocals...

Thanks again, Gale. I now understand the problem much better. I do use a USB microphone. It makes decent voice recordings - decent enough for my needs. But it doesn't have its own headphone jack. I can see how that would make a big improvement (running headphones into the mic itself rather than rely...

Gale: Thanks for your prompt reply. I apologize for my delay - I'm new to this forum and for some reason didn't receive an email notification that anyone had replied. Thanks for the very helpful information. I see that this is properly called multi-track recording. Thanks also for the heads up about...

First, I'm an almost brand new user. I'm technical when it comes to PCs, but I'm not very knowledgeable about recording. I've searched the wiki and the forums. I couldn't find anything, though this was a difficult one for me to figure out how to search. I am a songwriter. I have digitally recorded t...