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Laptop makes speed of audio recordings fluctuate
I was recording a duet for a song I had recently arranged for piano, and everything went well until I tried to sync the two parts I had recorded. When I put it into a video editing software, one of the two parts would sometimes be ahead of the other one, and sometimes behind. I checked the two parts against a metronome, and realized that although I had initially recorded the two parts with a metronome, the audio recorded by my laptop would slow down and speed up at random intervals. To further test this, I recorded a metronome ticking at 100 bpm, and played the recording on my laptop with the same metronome ticking the same bpm beside it. Turns out that my laptop skews the speed of recorded audio! Although it doesn't mess up the speed too much, a difference of half a millisecond between two duet parts makes my song sound like a drunk man banging on a piano. Have all my hours of work gone to waste, or do I still have hope?