Audacity Forum

Hi, first post here. So, I'm trying to record a track through the line in port on my Dell laptop (brand new), but here's the problem: there's a 1/4 second delay or so during the recording process itself. I've read countless threads on here, but none seem to be able to help. There is no hardware playthrough option for me to access, and when I try to search for the real time options in task manager I can't find a thing. I can't find a latency correction option anywhere, but I don't think it would matter because the issue is taking place during the process itself.

So, how can I fix this? It's very annoying, and I can't afford to go out and buy upgrades.

On the flip side, when I used to use Audacity on my mac I never encountered this problem. This is completely new to me, and I can't think of any reason why such an obvious flaw would be appearing so frequently and with so many different users.

EDIT: Just downloaded the 1.3 beta, same problem arises.

zeroyear wrote:Just downloaded the 1.3 beta, same problem arises.

Stick with the 1.3 version - it's much better than the (now ancient) 1.2 version.

zeroyear wrote:there's a 1/4 second delay or so during the recording process itself

Could you clarify what you mean there.

Sure. What I mean is that when I try to listen to the audio as I record it, there's a delay between when I press the piano keys and when I hear the notes in audacity. Basically, it's not recording in real time. I can't even record it if I can't hear what I'm doing properly enough to play it.

Piano keys?
What exactly are you recording and how are you recording it? I presume that you're not recording a real piano because you would hear that acoustically.

I'm playing my Yamaha electric piano through a line-in cable.

Switch off (deselect) "Software Playthrough" in Preferences.

Thank you, my problem has been solved. I appreciate your responses.