Audacity Forum

... Playthrough" (see: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/transport_menu_transport_options.html). The down side is that there will be a delay between the sound coming in and the sound coming back out through the headphones. The delay is unavoidable unless you use an audio device that ...

Enable "Software Playthrough" in "Transport menu > Transport Options".

Note that because the audio signal is being routed through software, there is a bit of delay before the sound comes out through the computer speakers. Typically the delay is around half a second.

... play-back the recording (or play some existing file)? Enable Software Playthrough Of Input to monitor what you're recording. You'll get latency (delay) through the computer so you may have to experiment with Latency/Buffer Length . (A bigger buffer creates more delay and if the buffer is too ...

... the time it takes Audacity to receive, process and record your audio so it will be in sync with previously-recorded tracks. To avoid the latency (delay) that you're hearing you need to listen to the output of your interface, not the output of your computer. See this discussion in the manual . ...

Seems software play through of input creates an intentional delay every time it stops the recording and starts again. This makes my recordings sound very awkward and the first part is always not recorded … We think this is possibly a soundcard issue (so ...

... is to use "Software Playthrough". The downside of this is that because the sound is being routed via software, there is a noticeable delay between sound going in and sound coming out. The delay is typically around half a second, which may not be a problem in some cases (such as recording ...

... to your guitar amp while recording. You can monitor through the computer by turning-on Software Playthrough but there is always some latency (delay) through the computer. Sometimes you can get the delay down to an acceptable or unnoticeable amount and sometimes not. To some extent you can ...

... can it be due to the slower software playthrough implementation in Audacity? Maybe the digitized sound comes to Audacity and Reaper with the same delay but it takes Audacity longer to send it back to the sound card? As for ASIO4All, I understand that it is not a real ASIO driver, but there is ...

I've noticed that I can mute my computer and the delay won't be there anymore, of course then the problem is that I can't monitor any previous tracks I've recorded. The settings that you need are: In Audacity > Transport menu > Transport Options: ...

... whatever goes through my microphone comes back out through my headphones via the direct monitor feature on the interface, but I also get a small delay which I'm supposing is the sound being processed by my computer and then being routed back through the interface. I searched the manual and it ...