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Problem: audio recorded through microphone is out of sync with the metronome click track
This seems like a really basic problem, but all the fixes I can find online aren't really an option for me.
I'm using a Dell laptop running Windows 10. Headphones just plugged into the laptop's built-in soundcard. Microphone is maybe two tiny steps above using the built-in microphone.
The first big suggestion I've seen online to switch from WASAPI to ASIO, but that doesn't seem to be an option with this computer. I get the "This driver is known to be incompatible with Cakewalk." message if I try.
The second suggestion I keep saying is to go out and buy a "dedicated audio interface", but I'm not at a point where I want to buy more equipment just to record some music.
Presumably there's just some way I can tell Cakewalk to automatically nudge the audio by x number of milliseconds. The delay seems consistent, so I can probably just measure that and get close enough, but I can't for the life of me find any option for how to do that.
Anyone have any tips for how to help me out here?
Latency / Sync problems (can't use ASIO)
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Thank you, Bass. That video had exactly the information I needed.
It's much more useful to be told what the limitations are for my set up than to be told I can make things better with a different set up.
For those who may find themselves in a similar place in the future, here are the details I needed from that video:
This last thing is really what I was looking for. In fact, I'd tried using this before, but I couldn't get it to work properly because the number here doesn't (at least on my system) seem to correspond directly to a millisecond delay, so the values I was setting were way too small to notice a difference. I had about a 90 ms delay (just enough to be noticeable and annoying), and I had to set this value to around 2000 to compensate. I don't know if this number is measuring in different units or there's something else going on, but it worked for me.
I expect I'll likely have to adjust this value periodically, but I'm okay with that annoyance.