Audacity Forum

I still get garbled audio even when nothing is running, and I've shut down all possible processes in the task manager. I have processor scheduling, set to "background services." There is nothing using up resources and no reason for audacity to skip and sound garbled the way it does. I've lost too ma...

Ok...if I leave media monkey or firefox open I still get the laggy audio even though I still have plenty of resources. Is this normal behavior? Should I just force myself to remember to close these programs before recording, because it's normal or is there something else going on? It would be nice t...

I think I've solved it. Thanks for all the help. I looked for updates to all my drivers and the only one I could find was an updated driver for my nvidia chipset. I installed it and it didn't seem to help the dpc latency issue. A while back I installed a creative sound blaster x-fi music to see if i...

Ok....I read the website you linked to. I loaded up dpc latency checker and it's fine most of the time but gets occasional red spikes. I guess that means that one of my drivers is causing problems? I'll try updating them all and see if that helps.

I closed most processes. The only processes open were using very few resources. The only windows open were audacity, notepad, windows task manager, and calculator. I watched the windows task manager while recording, and the cpu never went over 20%. The memory stayed around 1 gb(out of 3). No new pro...

I am using a usb microphone. I had it plugged into the ports on the front and I thought that might be the problem so I moved the microphone to the ports on the back. That's where it is now.

I keep getting garbled recordings using audacity. Here is an example: http://soundcloud.com/stewart-james-martin/audacity-bug/s-kc45D Not ever recorded track is garbled. I thought it only happened when I left a browser window open, or a media player. Today though I'm getting garbled recordings and I...