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... can listen to your old track in one ear and your current performance with the other. Audacity 1.3 allows you to "tune out" the latency delay -- although you still can't listen to both with the same ear. Audacity 1.2 has no latency adjustments. Koz

... is no direct hardware route between the microphone and the sound card) but this has a major drawback of being slow. Thus the monitored sound is delayed before you hear it. On Audacity 1.3.x the delay is considerably greater than on 1.2.6 so while the delay bay be bearable on 1.2.6 it is likely ...

Just to expand on what Steve wrote, what you are experiencing is the software playthrough delay which has nothing to do with the latency correction value you can enter in Preferences. In fact there is nothing you can do about the software playthrough delay. -- Bill ...

Just to expand on what Steve wrote, what you are experiencing is the software playthrough delay which has nothing to do with the latency correction value you can enter in Preferences. In fact there is nothing you can do about the software playthrough delay. -- Bill ...

Just to expand on what Steve wrote, what you are experiencing is the software playthrough delay which has nothing to do with the latency correction value you can enter in Preferences. In fact there is nothing you can do about the software playthrough delay. -- Bill ...

and i still get that 1 second delay... Switch off "Software Playthrough" - if you're using a recent version of Audacity 1.3 you can switch it off in the Transport menu. In older versions you need to go into Preferences. The downside ...

<<<Macs don't have "playthrough">>>

They don't have Hardware Playthrough. They do have Software Playthrough as noted although you will notice a significant delay between the Mac speakers and the actual performance. That's just the way it is.

Koz

Just to expand on what Steve wrote, what you are experiencing is the software playthrough delay which has nothing to do with the latency correction value you can enter in Preferences. In fact there is nothing you can do about the software playthrough delay.

-- Bill

and i still get that 1 second delay... Switch off "Software Playthrough" - if you're using a recent version of Audacity 1.3 you can switch it off in the Transport menu. In older versions you need to go into Preferences. The downside ...

I'm using Audacity on a Windows XP. The only thing I don't like about it is that if I select 'software playthrough', there is an irritable delay that makes it really difficult to record music, so I've been working with the playthrough off, which is likewise difficult because I can't hear what ...