Audacity Forum

... (https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/transport_menu_transport_options.html) Note that, as DVDdoug wrote, software playthrough has an unavoidable delay. To be able to monitor the input without a delay requires using hardware that has "zero latency monitoring", which is common in most, ...

Which "latency" are you talking about. There are two: 1) the delay between sound going into Audacity and coming out again when you use Software Playthrough; 2) the delay between a sound going into Audacity and that sound being laid down in a track ...

... be distributed with ASIO built-in. (ASIO4ALL adapts non-ASIO hardware but it doesn't help with non-ASIO software.) * There is ALWAYS some latency (delay) through the computer. If the latency a problem you can try reducing the Buffer Length but you might not be able to get the latency low-enough. ...

... systems it's different. Monitoring is normally done directly from the audio interface because it is impossible to listen in real time without a delay if you are waiting for the signal to do the round trip from analog to digital back to analog. With a highly tuned ASIO setup it is possible to ...

... to hear what Audacity is recording? That depends on two factors: 1. What hardware you are using 2. Is it acceptable for there to be a half second delay to what you are hearing. If a delay is acceptable, then you can use "Software Playthrough" (in "Transport menu > Transport Options"). ...

Turn on Software Playthrough,

Note that there is always some latency (delay) through the computer.

... and I want to record myself when I do covers (songs). I wanted to try to hear myself in my headphones, except that there is a latency problem, a delay of one to two seconds, so that when I sing a phrase, the time it takes to arrive in my ears, I'm already singing the second one ... So I would ...

... mic is to use "Software Playthrough", but routing the sound through the computer is slow and creates a very noticeable (and off-putting) delay. You can try it ("Transport menu > Transport Options > Software Playthrough") but I think you will be better off without it.

... your Recording Device . Then if you want to monitor yourself through the computer turn-on Software Playthrough . But, there is normally latency (delay) through the computer so if your interface has a built-in headphone jack to bypass the computer, use that. (The Berhinger UCG102 has zero-latency ...

The thing that I find surprising is that you didn't have the delay problem on your other computer. Were you using different recording software? The reason that the delay occurs is because there is no physical connection between the microphone input and ...