playbar stays ahead of the wave form is this normal

[costalive]

During recording the playbar stays ahead of the wave form is this normal?
I am used to other audio editing software that the playbar stays right where the wave form is being created.

i am running Audacity driver 1.3.12 it is the only driver that would allow me to record
I tried driver 1.2.6 it loaded but would not record / no wave form showed that sound was not being recorded / just a growing flat line in the time line.

I am using a
MAC dual 1.8 GHz PowerPC
OS X version 10.4.11
6G DDR SDRAM
M-Audio Delta 44 sound card
driver: Delta OS X 2.0.8 .dmg

Thanks in advance, Jim

[kozikowski]

During recording the playbar stays ahead of the wave form is this normal?

Yes. The playbar isn't right on top of things, either. All the graphic systems take a back seat to the actual capture of the sound.

Audacity doesn't do anything in real time except capture and playback. All the rest of the systems lag or perform only in post production.

It does worry me that you're worried about this -- like you're going to try to do real-time editing and sound management.

Koz

[kozikowski]

One more item:

Delta OS X 2.0.8 .dmg

It's worrisome that you posted that as the actual driver. It's not. That's the installer for the driver. You need to run that and it will install the drivers or make them visible so you can install them yourself.

Koz

[costalive]

During recording the playbar stays ahead of the wave form is this normal?

Yes. The playbar isn't right on top of things, either. All the graphic systems take a back seat to the actual capture of the sound.

Audacity doesn't do anything in real time except capture and playback. All the rest of the systems lag or perform only in post production.

It does worry me that you're worried about this -- like you're going to try to do real-time editing and sound management.

Koz

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