Audacity Forum

... use one at a time. Audacity 1.3 projects will not open up in 1.2. Audacity 1.3 has a "Latency" adjustment to try and take care of the delay issues. You are listening to one computer's worth of delay. The only other way out is to get a faster machine. Koz

... You will no doubt figure out that even when you Perform in perfect time, the timeline doesn't work out like that. That's called latency delay and you can fix it in post production (slide the tracks around) or you can get rid of Audacity 1.2 and install 1.3 which has controls for this. ...

If your sound card supports hardware playthrough you can avoid the problem by switching off "software playthrough" in Preferences (it is off by default).

Some audio devices do not support hardware playthrough, in which case the delay is unavoidable.

i'm using a microphone just plugged straight into the computer. Ah, good - To avoid the delay you need to switch of "software playthrough". To be able to hear the microphone input through the computer you need to enable it in the Windows Mixer, or the sound ...

when i have the "software playthrough" ticked on in preferences, i talk into the mic and my voice comes through half a second or so later and it records this way... so as you can imagine everything is out of time and it's extremely annoying!! When i switch the "software playthrough&qu...

... in Audacity. I think you will find it in "Edit menu > Preferences > Audio I/O". Note that using software playthrough there is a small delay (perhaps half a second) between the sound going into the computer and coming back out through the speakers.

... dude told me to install another version.I downloaded it and installed and this one has all the functions. Now here's the problem: First I had a delay when I was recording into it.This was insane and I could hear my voice as I was recording.Not only could I hear my voice but it was delayed so ...

... dude told me to install another version.I downloaded it and installed and this one has all the functions. Now here's the problem: First I had a delay when I was recording into it.This was insane and I could hear my voice as I was recording.Not only could I hear my voice but it was delayed so ...

"Edit menu > Preferences > Audio I/O tab" - uncheck "software playthrough".

... Software Playthrough forces the computer to process the show in real time, then decode it and play it to your headphones. You are listening to the delay inside your computer. Hardware Playthrough forces the sound card to immediately turn the show around and send the performance out to your headphones ...