Audacity Forum

I'm routing something through virtual audio cable. All DAW supports routing through software because with direct monitoring you can't hear internal effects like EQ or compressor.

Are you sure it works on Audacity ® 1.3.11-alpha-Jan 3 2010 (Unicode)? I just downloaded and tried, but it doesn't work Run the audacity, go to transport and check software play through. Then press r to start recording. On the newly created track, if you press shift+u, it'll mute, but you'll still h...

Problem is though, changing volume/an and muting don't work while recording. Try it!

I know Audacity isn't a full-blown DAW, but being able to mute/solo change volume while recording is basic.

While recording, I can't turn on and off the software play through.
Also, while recording with software play through on, changing the volume on a track doesn't have any affect.

Wow, that's awesome! I didn't know! Thanks for the info.

It'd be awesome to have configurable pre-roll recording buffer, so we can set how much time the buffer should be. Also, it'd be awesome if we can go down below -60. If I just set it -60, it just keeps recording although the floor noise is below -60. I'm using virtual audio cable, so the floor noise ...