Audacity Forum

... > Preferences and click on the Audio I/O tab. Near the bottom, check the "Software Playthrough" tab. Note it is normal to have a slight delay in the sound you hear from the computer. I hope this helps.

Audacity 1.3 is claimed to have tools to "tune" latency delay -- hopefully out. Koz: I've tested this extensively on three Macs. The software playthough delay is independent of the Latency Correction and Audio to Buffer settings in Recording Preferences. ...

You have encountered the dreaded "software playthrough" delay. Go to Edit > Preferences then the Recording tab. Uncheck "software playthrough" and check "hardware playthrough". Click OK and try again. If you can't hear anything ...

... for that in Audacity. That's why I asked about Reaper and ASIO- Would using a programme that supports ASIO resolve the sfotware playthrough delay problem?

When I record my guitar into audacity there's a delay between me playing and me hearing what I'm playing (recording) back using software playthrough. This is "Latency" - it's down to the processing time that your computer takes to handle ...

... in place, so that doesn't really make any difference to me. No he means t'other way around WC When I record my guitar into audacity there's a delay between me playing and me hearing what I'm playing (recording) back using software playthrough. This is obviously a bit of a pain. Is there a ...

... Choose the one with the least damage. You may need to restart Audacity between settings. This is a slightly different but related problem to the delays you get when you try to sing to yourself. It goes in in perfect time, but comes out off-rhythm. You'll get that later. It pays handsomely to ...

"Software Playthrough" will always cause a substantial delay - usually about half a second or more. Windows will almost always support hardware playthrough when using an internal sound card, or on-board sound, and for this "software playthrough" ...

Audacity Preferences > Recording > Latency didn't help? I suppose we need to split the difference between your own voice coming back to your headphones late and the composite performance being record out of sync. If you didn't hear any difference between Software Playthrough and Hardware Playthrough...

Audacity 1.3 has tools to tune that out. Audacity 1.2 doesn't, but it does have software playthrough or hardware playthrough in the Preferences menu. Pick one or the other and see if that helps.

This is worst on shower machines. You are listening to one computer's worth of delay.

Koz