Even on computers that are purpose-built for real-time audio, every effect you use on each audio stream makes the computer work harder, which adds even more of a delay. Unless your computer is purpose-built with specific hardware and software to produce real-time audio (and no consumer-grade computer is), you're already at a disadvantage. That would be the only way to use Banana to run your microphone alone through a processing stack.ĭigital audio processing causes a delay in the audio. You'd either need a live / production mixer for that, or you could also buy an external sound card with a microphone input and plug your mic directly into that, then feed the output into the mic jack on your mixer.
There are several reasons why what you want to do is not what you really want to do.įirst and foremost, in order to process only the microphone and not all the other audio coming out of your mixer, you would need an auxiliary or 'effects' buss, and DJ mixers don't typically have one.