A delay is occuring in the track I want to record (two tracks already recorded)(SOLVED)

Audacity 3 Help Forum Windows
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Hello. Haven’t used Audacity in a while but seem to be back up to speed, except I could not hear the instrument I’m recording (keyboard) in my headphones. I found out how to get the track I was recording to play through the headphones as well as the tracks already recorded ( by turning on Software Playthrough on under Transport) but now there is a delay in me playing a chord and it coming thru the headphones (and yes the delay in being recorded as a delay. The keyboard is fine coming thru my PA. Hope I explained it well. Thanks

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By the way, I’m recording on a Windows 10 system using Audacity 3.2.1

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Playthrough is always late—echoey. To do real time, perfect overdubbing, you have to plug your wired earphones/headphones into the USB Microphone, Digital Interface, or Digital Mixer.

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https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tutorial_recording_multi_track_overdubs.html


And turn Playthrough off.

Koz

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I’m not using a microphone. I am recording a keyboard track for an original song. I can’t run the playback of already recorded tracks (3) thru the mixer because they would record with the keyboard track. That’s why I ran the output from my computer to the headphone amp. I tried adjusting adjusting the latency without much success.

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Problem solved. Routing signal on mixer solved it. Thanks for input