[audacity4blind] Re: problems with hardware play through
- From: Gale Andrews <gale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:53:16 +0100
| From John W.Hess <wysiwygtechnologies@xxxxxxxxx>
| Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:07:14 -0400
| Subject: [audacity4blind] problems with hardware play through
> Good morning all. I am trying to record a bass track and when I use
> software play through to hear what I am recording there is a delay of
> about a quarter second making it difficult to play in sync with the
> other tracks. Hardware play through doesn't give me any audio from
> the instrument at all. I am using an intel imac and a usb connection.
> Is there a way to make hardware play through work or get rid of the
> delay in software playthrough? Thanks.
Hardware playthrough is a problem on Macs, and generally most basic
USB recording interfaces won't give you hardware playthrough anyway.
Have you tried Audacity Beta, or are you already using it?
You'll probably need to invest in a more specialised interface such as:
http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/FireWire410-main.html
that supports low latency software- and hardware-monitoring, and use
a recording application that supports the required ASIO low latency
sound drivers. Audacity does not, unless you compile it yourself from
source code.
I've heard that some people with keyboard instruments that have a
separate audio out (so they don't have to use headphones out to send
the audio to Audacity) manage by playing the previous tracks softly
and listening to what they are recording through the instrument
speakers.
You might also want to try our Mac forum:
http://audacityteam.org/forum/
as one of the regular contributors is on Mac and may be able to make
recommendations.
Gale
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