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Set Audacity's playback device to your headphones in the Device Toolbar

Turn off "Software Playthrough" in the "Transport Options" https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tra ... tions.html

I've just tested this code in the Nyquist Prompt in Audacity 2.3.3 and it works as expected:

LaterHolmes wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 23, 2020 4:59 am

to record drums

Acoustic drums or electronic drums?

LaterHolmes wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 23, 2020 4:59 am

the sound is coming out of the computer speaker with latency.

Which sound? The sound of your drums as you are playing them, or the sound of your backing track? It's not clear what you are trying to do.

What do you get from the command (that's a lower case "L" at the end)

The "red map pin" is normally (by default) a "red triangle" during recording, and a "green triangle" on playback. To get the normal "triangle" rather than "map pin", just click on it. (This does not solve the problem of not recording) See here for de...

FergusN wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 23, 2020 2:27 pm

Will there be a permanent fix for this in the near future?

Next month, all being well.

I'm not sure when the wiki instructions were last updated. It may be worth checking if your steps match with these instructions: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/bl ... /build.txt

I would expect that a lot of the lower frequency sound would come from the prop rather than directly from the motor.
It could be interesting (if possible) to record the motor without a propeller attached (but be careful to not over-rev the motor).

Trebor wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 23, 2020 11:45 am

"JB Phatt Pro" is a free compressor/expander/gate plugin that works in Audacity on Windows ...

That looks like a nice plug-in with lots of knobs to twiddle. I guess that the side chain does not work in Audacity (?)