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Hi all!
I've done some searching over the past few days, because I'm trying to get my problem with audacity solved.
Until now it didn't really bug me, but now that I'm trying to record a pretty fast song it's kind of impossible to do it like this.

See, my problem is, when I record a track in audacity *from my electric guitar* audacity automatically speeds it up a little bit.
I imported a backing track in audacity, record my guitar track, and it's perfectly synced when I play it, but when I play it back you can clearly hear that the longer you record, the worser the syncing gets. It's a pretty weird problem because when I record like 5 seconds you don't hear it, but if you record longer than that you can hear it getting out of sync more and more..

Does anyone know how I can solve this? Already downloaded the bèta version, but that didn't change anything. It's pretty stupid to record a song by recording 5 seconds everytime xD..

Thanks in advance

It's not unusual for affordable sound cards to use independent electronics for playback and record. In English, cheap sound cards frequently record and play at slightly different speeds. Normal computer users don't notice it, but the instant you try to do Scientific Research, Critical Sound Analysis, or Serous Sound Production, it pops up right away.

The Painful Workaround is to make Track One a simple click or guide track and not anything musically valuable. Always play each music layer -- including the "real" first track (now track 2) -- to the click track and not to any of the music tracks. Mute the music tracks after they go down.

Music Tracks 2 and on will be in sync with each other -- and they will all be the same amount off speed from the click track.

Of course, this is playing blind. You can't do harmonic blends and riff off each other -- or the other tracks.

Or get rid of the sound card. If it's the one in your laptop, you can pop for an external USB sound card and try that.

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=9477

Koz