The effect is called 'latency', and it's completely unavoidable - even on state of the art computers.Īnd this is why there's a direct monitoring path through your sound device. So you hear yourself delayed, and that's what messes with your performance. That's why generally, it's not the done thing to record whilst you are listening to effects, because it means that you have to have Audition's monitoring turned on, rather than using the direct monitor path through your sound device.
Invariably this takes some time - and in a slower machine, quite a lot of time a significant fraction of a second. The problem with having effects on a track is that for them to be there, the signal from your sound device has to be digitised, pass into Audition, then be passed through whatever effects you are using, then sent back out, and converted back to an electrical signal again in your sound device. Audition only records dry - even if you put effects on the track.