If you have an audio device that has "direct monitoring" (sometimes
called "zero latency monitoring"), then you don't need ASIO to achieve
latency free monitoring. Most USB sound cards that include a headphone
socket can do zero latency monitoring. With such a device you just
need to plug your headphones into the USB audio device and set
Audacity to use the USB device for both recording and playback.
"Software playthrough" in the Transport menu must be off (not
selected). Some internal sound card also provide low latency
monitoring. If they do, then on Windows you need to find an option in
the Sounds Control Panel for "listen to this device" and enable it.
Steve
On 18 November 2015 at 22:50, David Engebretson Jr.
<d.engebretson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
A sighted friend of mine and I ran through the steps given, and the
information on the wiki, trying to compile our own version of Audacity so
that we could use Asio4All.
As a preface to my conclusion I'll say that we are both electronics
engineers by trade. My sighted friend works for a company that holds the
internet together around the world. Neither of us are highly skilled at
programming but we've both dealt with Visual Studio and have even designed
our own operating systems. By no means do we expect our credentials to give
us the power to compile our own version of Audacity without some real
headache and frustration during the learning curve. Frustration and
headache are part of the joy of engineering. We experienced the
frustration. We expended a lot of energy trying to compile ASIO into
Audacity. We had a few headaches. We were never able to successfully
compile.
That being said, my conclusion is that, unless you have the direct help of
someone who is intimately involved in compiling Audacity, you will hit a
frustration wall and either move to a DAW that you purchase and already has
ASIO built in (Reaper is good, and has a great license), or you'll use other
techniques with Audacity to avoid the latency issue of many sound IO
devices.
What I do is have a USB mixer with two output devices connected. One output
plays the recorded track/tracks, and the other output plays the track I'm
recording. Generally those tracks have near 0 latency after all of the
tracks are recorded and each track has it's own instrument on it.
I'm running another machine with a Delta 1010 - a 10 channel input device.
It's super sweet. I can record multiple stereo mixers at once. It keeps
everything divided into individual tracks. It's got near 0 latency even
when I've got the device playing through the same output device. It's older
technology but works well and sounds A-Mazing.
The settings I use for this are under Transport:
* Overdub ON
* Software Playthrough OFF
I hope this helps you. I'd really like it if the Audacity team could work
out a method to provide preconfigured build environments. This would help
folks with enough technical knowledge to be dangerous a chance to be
audacious in the DAW world.
Peace,
David
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From: "Kristoffer Gustafsson" <kg.kristoffer@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2015 2:06 PM
To: <audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [audacity4blind] asio question
Hi.
I'm planningto try and compile a version of audacity with asio.
This because I want to record without delay.
Is there a way to do this and hear Everything in my computer?
screenreader, what I sing, audiogames etc?
I've got asio for all here.
/Kristoffer
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