Audacity Forum

Ok, it seems I was too quick on the A|V part. Not totally satisfied with the A|V solution I wanted to be totally sure it was indeed slowing my pc. Yesterday when I shut it off, my recordings were fine. I know my pc has a tendency to stand still, usually because avast! is busy. But it's only for a se...

Ok, some of you reading this are going to think: Boy, what an idiot this guys is. But, I'll take that chance... Well now, today I toyed around with Audacity, hoping to record some guitar work, thinking, fine, if it's recording too fast or slow, I'll just use the time shift adjustment tool. So, I mak...

Oops! I forgot to add that I will work with the speed settings as suggested in the meantime.

Well, I installed a update for my soundcard. Still the same thing. I'm just baffled because I was able to record just fine without any problems at all. Now, the recordings don't drift, they are out of sync even as I start the project. I did a test in Cool Edit Pro, using the metronome as a reference...

Thanks for your reply. i'd forgotten about updating my sound card. i'd bought it used, without any drivers, so I had to hunt them down (that was a fiasco in and of itself). As soon as I get home, I'll get right on top of them. If memory serves me, I think I had both playback and record set for my ca...

Another update. My last one because I quit. I recorded myself just counting in Audacity, I had it set up where I could hear myself doing it. I noticed a slight lag. I recorded a song and it was out of sync again. I'm lost. I guess I could just record to an 8-track and convert to a .wav or something....

First off, I really enjoy using Audacity. I've used to record several versions of songs for my band. All was going well until something peculiar began to happen. Whenever I recorded a vocal track over the music track, the vocals would record a couple of seconds too fast. I recorded in Windows Sound ...