Audacity Forum

... Preferences and deselect Hardware Playthrough and select Software Playthrough. Restart Audacity. Does that work? That's the setting with the heavy delay, but almost everybody supports it. That may be about the best we can do. Koz

... Preferences and deselect Hardware Playthrough and select Software Playthrough. Restart Audacity. Does that work? That's the setting with the heavy delay, but almost everybody supports it. That may be about the best we can do.

There are three delay problems in audio production. Latency is adjusted using the tools provided in Audacity 1.3.11. Live Headphone Delay (not playback delay) and Duration of Show issues are burned into the computer and sound card ...

... Playthrough." Restart Audacity. If you still can't hear your own live voice, you may need Software Playthrough. That always works, but the delay is even worse. In Audacity 1.3, you can tune out the actual latency. That's only one of the three delays. Hearing yourself late isn't latency. ...

... then you have Hardware or Software playthrough selected in Audacity preferences. Not everybody supports Hardware Playthrough but it's the best for delay and other problems. Software playthrough works everywhere, but it's always behind the performance sometimes by significant fractions of seconds. Koz

You wrote: Then there's the delay that many people experience listening to themselves come back from the computer in real time. If you're a lucky devil, Hardware Playthrough (Preferences) is supported and works OK. If not Software Playthrough ...

In my experience, Software Playthrough on Linux is pretty useless due to a huge amount delay, or it not working at all. If you're recording from a USB microphone then you're out of luck. If you're recording from a conventional microphone, - this is the basic set-up: ...

And just so we're crystal clear, Latency is the fixed (usually) delay between you singing live and the track played back to you for matching. You can adjust Audacity 1.3 to play, for example, the recorded file slightly early, so by the time your voice arrives ...

Yes, but. In Audacity 1.3, there are provisions to tune out the latency delay -- the time difference between the playback of your old voice and the recording of your new one. What most computers don't have is a good ability to play the mix of your new and old ...

... sound card to mess with. Even if you did have a sound card, not all of them support Hardware Playthrough, but that typically gives the least worst delay. Software Playthrough is the one that everybody supports and it's always way late. If you're trying to play music to yourself, the only sure way ...