[ardour-dev] mixdown woes

[Christian Schumann]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 10:02:16PM +0000, Pete wrote:
>  
> On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 at 12:42:37 +0100, Tom Szilagyi <st444 at hszk.bme.hu> wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 11:26:08AM +0100, Christian Schumann wrote:
> > [...]
> > > second:
> > >   while mixdown (recording master->extra stereo track), using plugins
> > >   (SC1, TAP Reverb, TAB EQ, Tim Goetzes' tube preamp, jamin 0.9.17),
> > >   everything works ok. But when I press stop to finish the recording,
> > >   jackd shows thousands of xruns or crashes completely.
> > 
> > This sounds like a denormal problem in one of the plugins you use; it
> > is a fairly well known issue and not Ardour's fault. I would suggest a
> > search in the ardour-users list archives, as some more detailed
> > explanations about it were posted there not so long ago. I for one
> > wrote a note on this issue on Sun, 7 Nov 2004,
> > Re: [ardour-users] problem with Ardour, DSP creeps up to 100%.
> 
> I had this problem with the tube-preamp plugin from Tim Goetze's 
> caps plugin suite. It's fixed in the latest release (0.2.0), which added
> denormal protection for this and one other  plugin.
ok, I checked it last night, and it was a denormal problem with the tube
preamp plugin. I got the new release now, and everything works well.
Thanks for the support!

Christian

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