"How come I sing exactly on time but when I play it back, I'm off the beat?"Īudacity 1.3 has Latency Delay settings which allow you to tune that one out.ĭigital Audio Workstations are special beasts and not every computer can do what they do. Playing the old track, you singing, and recording the new track can all be off time. Audacity 1.3.11 has tools to get rid of another delay you haven't experienced yet. If you're trying to play music to yourself, the only sure way to get in-time performances is with a sound mixer and Audacity 1.3. Software Playthrough is the one that everybody supports and it's always way late. It was a easy fix in the old windows, Windows 10 really is not that. Even if you did have a sound card, not all of them support Hardware Playthrough, but that typically gives the least worst delay. AUX cable and make windows output the microphone through my USB headphones. Hardware Playthrough may not do anything for a USB microphone because there is no sound card to mess with.
Any time the computer has to think about something, it takes time and the slower the computer, the worse it is.Īudacity has two settings in preferences: Hardware Playthrough and Software Playthrough.
Since the microphone has no analog sound signal of its own, it depends on the computer to turn the USB signal into sound for you.