Aloha all! I recently got a new laptop that only has the basic windows high definition driver, MME, and WASAPI listed as audio host - the output devices available are Microsoft Sound Mapper and Speakers (High Definition Audio) - and the input devices available are Microsoft Sound Mapper In, and Microphone (High Def…) is listed twice in the pulldown menu. I’m running Windows 8.1 on a low-end Samsung computer, I have Audacity version 2.0.5, and I used the .exe installer. Previously everything went easily using a slightly higher end HP with Windows 7 and a Realtek sound card. Is the problem that I’m not currently full duplex ( I don’t know if I am!) or something else related to my sound card or absence thereof? I may have to bite the bullet and get a new computer soon as I can afford it. Audacity is awesome, however!
Mahalo,
Sam Powell
If you’re playback system is working at all in Audacity, it should be possible to set “live” simultaneous playback.
Audacity > Edit > Preferences > Recording > [X] playthrough.
You probably can’t use that for overdubbing. Is that where you were going with this?
Koz
Thanks for the reply!! I was able to get live microphone playback ( mic for test only - I’ll be running a PODLive directly in when recording) playback by turning on “software playthrough” in the “Transport” menu. Unfortunately I’m now facing the half-second latency issue, which I’m assuming is more of a problem with my cheap hardware, and NOT a flaw in Audacity. is there some kind of setting, fix or workaround that gets rid of the latency, or is my computer just not up to the task?
Did you read Audacity Manual?
All software playthrough has latency.
You can’t monitor an input on a motherboard audio device without latency unless you can unmute it on the playback side of Windows Sound. Is that what you did on the Windows 7 machine?
Is PODLive a USB interface? If so and it has headphones monitoring of input you can set PODLive as the Audacity recording device and monitor in PODLive.
Gale
This is one of the devices I certified for perfect overdubbing. No delays.
The USB device headphones grab the live sound before the computer can get to it.
Koz
You can enable input monitoring these days via Transport → Transport Options → Enable audible input monitoring.