[ardour-users] Question about monitoring & latency compensation

Them idragosani at chapelperilous.net
Mon Jul 5 13:35:49 PDT 2004


R Parker wrote:

> To use software monitoring while recording punchins
> and such, you need to start jack with smaller buffers;
> 256, 128, 64, 32. Of course small buffers cause xruns
> to occur. Hardware monitoring and a large enough
> buffer to prevent your system for ever producing an
> xrun is the correct choice. Again, once you engage
> Record the signal streaming from disk is interupted.
> Until Record is engaged, you are able to play along
> with the existing disk source.

That doesn't help when I need to play a bass part to a previously 
recorded drum track, or a guitar part over top of those.

-- Brett



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