Need help recording to existing mp3's

[steve]

"Latency Problem

Latency correction setting has caused the recorded audio to be hidden before zero.
Audacity has brought it back to start at zero.
You may have to use the Time Shift Tool or F5 to drag the track to the right place."

Is that the exact error message?
It pops up immediately when you press record?

I deleted that file and nothing changed.

After you deleted the audacity.cfg file and restarted Audacity, you should have been prompted to select your language - did that not happen?

I downloaded the Beta version of Audacity and it seemed to want to work at first,

I think I misread this the first time - you are not saying that it did work at some point, in fact it has never worked, but at one point is appeared to show a psychological willingness. Is that what you are saying?

[vertsk8r]

"Latency Problem

Latency correction setting has caused the recorded audio to be hidden before zero.
Audacity has brought it back to start at zero.
You may have to use the Time Shift Tool or F5 to drag the track to the right place."

Is that the exact error message?
It pops up immediately when you press record?

I deleted that file and nothing changed.

After you deleted the audacity.cfg file and restarted Audacity, you should have been prompted to select your language - did that not happen?

I downloaded the Beta version of Audacity and it seemed to want to work at first,

I think I misread this the first time - you are not saying that it did work at some point, in fact it has never worked, but at one point is appeared to show a psychological willingness. Is that what you are saying?

That is exact message that pops up after I click the "stop" button after clicking "record" (because once I click "record" nothing happens and I have to click stop to start over)
Also, I don't remember exactly if the record worked in the beginning...I feel that I am soooooo close. Thanks Steve, vert

[lanroc]

I had the same error when i tried to record a second track while listening to the first one I recorded. I found that changing the Latency in the Edit>Preferences>Recording menu solved the problem. The values I am providing are arbitrary in that they worked for me...Audio to buffer: 300 and latency correction: -150. You may have to play around with these.
Hope this helps

[gobblerman]

I have this same problem with my lexicon alpha. I contacted Lexicon with this issue and they claim it is a bug with audacity's stereo feature and suggested I select mono. This did not work. I do know this is a problem alpha has with other software as well but configuration changes correct the problem. Usually the fixes involve buffer adjustments and selecting 32 bit float (3 byte pcm) (programs like adobe audition). I do not know what the equivalent adjustments are for audacity, for instance 3 byte pcm versus 4 byte pcm. I agree changing latency settings seems to have some influence but I cannot solve it with that. I can say the problem is intensified with the quantity of tracks to be overdubbed. I understand that two way usb communications could be the culprit but other audio editing software can deal with this. Has anyone with a lexicon alpha successfully used overdubbing with audacity? If so could you divulge the configuration settings which work for you?