Audacity Forum

... to record the guitar along side the song that has been imported. My problem is that I hit the notes on the guitar, but there is a 1/2 second delay before I hear the sound through the headphones and it delays the recording the same amount. In reality, I am playing right along with the song, ...

... a hardwired mic. Then with a sound device that supports hardware playthrough (unmuting playback of the mic or line-in) you will get a tolerable delay. There is no guarantee a motherboard computer sound device will actually support hardware playthrough even if the Windows Control Panel has a ...

I've read elsewhere in the forums that enabling the hardware playback option in Audacity>Preferences will fix the problem, but I don't have that feature availabe in Audacity. Hardware PlayThrough is only an option on Macs, but it does not help with USB microphones anyway. (On Windows Audacity defau...

... the headphones by enabling "software playthrough" but an unfortunate side effect is that it will usually introduces a substantial delay, so the voice will be way out of time with the music. Can I fix that by using a "line in" mike? Usually yes. The configuration that ...

... (headphones out instead of line-out)? You can turn on Transport > Software Playthrough to hear what you are recording in Audacity (with a little delay). Gale

... of using software to route the sound from the USB input to the sound card output is that it takes a little time, so there will be a small delay between the sound going into the computer and coming out through the speakers. This does not pose any real problem for recording from tapes or ...

... hear my voice in my headphones, but when i talk into the microphone, and say "Hey" it wont say "Hey" at the same time, it will delay a split second...its hard to record because it throws me off the beat...how can i fix this? Are you using a USB microphone? If you are, then you ...

... How do I get it to play real-time through Audacity, so there is no latency? You don't with software playthrough, because that inevitably has delay as the sound is driven round the computer. And you can't do it by hardware playthrough with LightSnake because it isn't a playback device. Try ...

... enable the feature of "Software Playthrough" in Audacity Preferences (Edit menu > Preferences > Audio I/O). There will be an unavoidable delay before the sound appears in your headphones/speakers. For conventional (non-USB) microphones, simultaneous monitoring of the microphone input ...

... enable the feature of "Software Playthrough" in Audacity Preferences (Edit menu > Preferences > Audio I/O). There will be an unavoidable delay before the sound appears in your headphones/speakers. For conventional (non-USB) microphones, simultaneous monitoring of the microphone input ...