Audacity Forum

Having trouble with latency and all the old tricks aren't working Those are the wrong English words. There are two latencies and it's good to know which one you have trouble with. I can't record multiple tracks (overdub) without solving the latency issue and that's usually done by utilizing the cli...

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Koz

It's a lot easier to use a longer click track lead-in instead of trying to jump right on one single pip. Tick tick tick tick music. The waves on the recorded track are leading the reference sounds, they are physically closer to the beginning Did you set Recording Latency? That's the one we can fix. ...

Did you actually install Audacity? I think the newer one comes with an actual installer. It's possible to run Audacity from inside the .dmg folder on your desktop or download folder and it seems to work, but it's doesn't like doing that at all.

Koz

We need to get your machine in perfect order before you start overdubbing. Overdubbing demands that the machine play back one or more sound tracks perfectly and then record your voice, perfectly, all at the same time. If anything goes wrong, it stops working. Which Audacity version do you have? The ...

I think they're contained here:

http://www.fosshub.com/Audacity.html

http://www.oldfoss.com/Audacity.html

Koz

Audacity doesn't usually get along with other sound programs. You can investigate FRAPS for gamer, chat and commentary at the same time.

Koz

Audacity doesn't do anything in real time short of Record, Play and some timer jobs. All the rest of the tools are post production. The developers are doing better with scrubbing and some of the tools may work in semi-real time now, but don't write to the newspapers yet. If you're used to how some o...

play-through You may not be able to hear yourself during the performance. It's not unusual for your live voice to arrive at the headphnes slightly late. That echo drives most people nuts. If yours doesn't do that, then you win. But don't go around telling everybody they can do it. That's very unusu...

If you sing or perform in perfect time to the backing track but the stacked performance tracks are out of step, then the Recording Latency adjustment is wrong. One of the ways to set this is actually jam your headphones next to the microphone and record the backing track. http://kozco.com/tech/audac...