Audacity Forum

Audacity on Windows offers two options for monitoring: hardware/software The default is "hardware" but will be overridden if you go into Edit menu > Preferences > Audio I/O and select "software playthrough" (so don't :) ) There will still be a short delay (latency) while audio m...

Hello! I'm having delay in my audacity. I found this information about how to fix the problem: There's 3 kinds of monitoring you can do, 1) realtime monitoring through an external mixer, 2) hardware monitoring through a soundcard that supports direct monitoring 3) software monitoring, where you have...