(Mac); Does the iMic support input and output at the same time? There seems to be a delay in the sound coming out of the computer. You can also double check your audio settings by going to Audio Properties under Edit. Programs that work include Final Vinyl, Logic, GarageBand, Audacity, Ableton Live, Reason, etc.
Latency should normally not be a problem since a correct installed audio driver reports the latency to the DAW which compensates by automatically shifting the track by the correct amount. But there are situations where there can be issues: You use software monitoring and/or are using realtime effects. In this case is is best to find a workaround with preferably analogue monitoring Your audio driver reports the wrong value. This can be fixed by making a loopback recording to measure the latency and tweak it manually.
Another way that works sometimes is tweaking buffer size. Normally decreasing buffer size should decrease latency but it does also increase hardware load so try both. And face the facts, NO consumer operating system (WIN MAC or LINUX) is designed to be a real time systems and will never be.
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I input all mic audio through the virtual mixer. (idk if I should use this mixer or not, so help on that too pls maybe?) On Audacity, for recording device I choice the mixer, so the mic goes to the mixer, and mixer to mic. Then everything outputs through the mixer as well.So here's what I really need help with, I typical will start with just a guitar track by itself, then play that back while recording singing or another guitar part.
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What I play matches up, I don't play off beat, but when I play both tracks back, there is a slight but noticeable delay between tracks.Yesterday I recorded a 4 track song I've been working on and have been manually deleting a small portion of each audio track (except the first track I record) to match everything up. I got it matched okay, but I feel like there is a better approach to this. Any help/advice from you kind Redditers? This is the delay of being recorded to your interface then played back out through the same interface. One method is to use a popersoundcard that allows you to monitor your record input bypassing the computer. All musician soundcards have this feature. Some common entry level soundcards: Focusrite Saffire 2i2, Presonus Audiobox 2x2, Tascam US-322.
Note: This means you'll have to listen to yourself dry without reverb or other effects. If you really need those effects so you can get your timing right (often with recording vocals) you can look into a better soundcard like the Presonus 22VSL - that one is designed to run with reverb and eliminate the delay.
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Other cheap option has already been mentioned, compensating for your latency in software. Yes please go to England and explain to them how originally a torch was not electric and battery powered but actually a stick lit on fire. We still call 'soundcards' in laptops 'soundcards' even though they are now a days a tiny chip. It still fits that roll. We still call it a shopping 'cart' in the supermarket even though it doesn't resemble hand pulled carts from centuries ago where it got it's name.
People still call it a 'cell phone' even though we no longer use Cellular technology. People still say 'hang up the phone' even though you no longer 'hang it' on a hook.
Sometimes the colloquial name for something lives far beyond what it's original purpose was. Don't worry in a few years when you are in the car with someone who is driving an electric car you'll ask them to 'step on the gas pedel'. Then they'll go into a long triade about how originally that pedal was used to deliver gas to the engine but how this is an electric car but there is no gas. Then you'll roll your eyes at them and say 'you know what I mean'.
Then they'll come back and say: Imprecise language leads to confusion. When I have anything to do with driving I prefer exact language. That said your point has been taken and assimilated.
I know more about talking to you than I did before. Also I don't understand how that could stop the delay. If I am hearing myself monitored, bypassing the computer in real time, how would that stop the delay. I usually don't monitor myself live when I play anyways, but if I prerecorded a track, how would this eliminate delay when I record something over that first track.
I playback the first while recording, and record part 2 while listening to match up, but how would this eliminate the delay the second track has. Like I would think both using the virtual mixer, and and interface would have the same delay because both go through and interface and out. Just cause the interface would monitor bypassing the computer wouldn't it still have delay once I play it back?.Btw sorry for awkward sentences or ignorance. I've been stressing on not knowing what to do for months, and I'm not really sure exactly how to word my question. But thanks so much for your advice, all of it makes me better being a little more informed:). : A digital audio workstation ( DAW) is an electric or electronic device, or for, editing and producing.
DAWs come in a wide variety of configurations from a single software program on a, to an integrated stand-alone unit, all the way to a highly complex configuration of numerous components controlled by a central computer. Regardless of configuration, modern DAWs have a central interface that allows the user to alter and mix multiple recordings and tracks into a final produced piece. Music production using a digital audio workstation (DAW) with multi-monitor set-up Interesting: Parent commenter can. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less.