Audacity Forum

... 'hardware monitoring' just means that only the hardware is touching the audio that you're listening to. This is the only way to listen without any delay since software is not in a good position to give you a good monitoring signal. I read your original post wrong (as far as how you have things ...

... hear what you are recording presently. If you check the "software playthrough" box you can hear yourself but there is a significant delay. Any way around this?

... I'm experiencing on the input signal. I play a note on my guitar plugged into my PODxt and that plugged into the iMac via USB and the note is delayed coming out of my computer speakers. Yes, I am using software playthrough on both programs, but I get no or near no latency in 1.2.6 and unuseable ...

... then only me is recorded. If I switch to stereo mix as you suggest then only my friend is recorded, not me. He also get's a small echo and weird delay, like a quality problem. (software playthrough IS turned off). There's many programs out there that can record a skype conversation fine. I want ...

Hey, I'm having trouble with a delay while I'm playing, like an echo. The playback sounds fine. I've tried everything. Software playthrough is off, volume controls are good. I just got a new computer. Audacity worked great on my last computer. ...

... post again with details about your setup (which version of Audacity, what soundcard, what else is running....) Note also that there is always a delay with "Software Playthrough" as the audio has to first be processed by your computer - A better way to set it up is to switch Software ...

... track and record at the same time at the same speed. I guess the computer will have to "process" the input, thus inevitably creating a delay on the output, however short. I checked my windows control panel and I don't have anything on mute. Is there something else I can try? Thanks ...

I'm trying to record into my computer with a line-in input, and with Software Playthrough there's a several-second delay. A colleague of mine has told me it's because my audio buffer is too big, but doesn't know how to change it on Windows Vista. Any help?

Turn off "Software Playthrough" as by definition that has delay as the sound is processed through the computer. Turn on "play other tracks while recording new one" right by it, then unmute the line-in as a playback device in the Windows ...

... are playing directly through the hardware). Try reducing the audio to buffer in the Audio I/O tab of Audacity Preferences. If you still have bad delay you may well have to try an ASIO driver but Audacity won't support this unless you build it from source code yourself with ASIO support enabled: ...