[ardour-users] Question about monitoring & latency compensation

[Jan Depner]

That's got to be something in Ardour itself.  There are so many switches
in there I can't keep them straight ;-)  Of course, when you just
playback and don't record you really want it to go to PCM Out 1 and 2
anyway.

Jan

On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 20:45, idragosani wrote:
> Jan Depner wrote:
> 
>  > That is decidedly weird.  I think I used to see that problem a
>  > looooonnnnnng time ago.  What version of ALSA/envy24control are you
>  > running?
> 
> 
> Pretty much the latest stuff as far as I can tell:
> 
> ALSA version 1.0.5a
> envy24Control 0.5.0 (from ALSA tools 1.0.5)
> 
> It's like something is dynamically watching the ports and changing the 
> monitoring based on where the signal is going (it'll switch to PCM out 
> if I start playback in Ardour).
> 
> -- Brett
> 
>  > Jan
>  >
>  > On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 17:53, Them wrote:
>  >
>  >> Jan Depner wrote:
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>> Yes.  You need to unmute each channel that you want to come through in
>  >>> the digital mix.  You also need to bring the left and right sliders up
>  >>> for each channel.  So, for instance, if you want channels 1 and 2 to
>  >>> come through the digital mix you need to bring PCM Out 1 and PCM Out 2
>  >>> up in the Monitor Mixer tab.  If you want to hear them as stereo then
>  >>> just bring up the left for PCM Out 1 and the right for PCM Out 2. 
> Also,
>  >>> if you want to hear HW In 1 you need to bring up both of those sliders
>  >>> and unmute the channel.  It takes a while to get used to but it's very
>  >>> powerful.  Once you have things set the way you want you can do an
>  >>> alsactl store to save them.  Then alsactl restore will reset to those
>  >>> settings.
>  >>
>  >>
>  >> That was the problem, the hardware channels were muted.
>  >>
>  >> However, I am still getting strange happenings while recording.  The 
> biggest issue is that, while use Digital Mix to monitor both my live 
> incoming channel with the previously recorded channels playing back 
> through the PCM out channels, the monitor will just randomly switch back 
> to HW1 IN -- and suddenly the live channel is the only thing I can hear, 
> which of course ruins the recording take because I can no longer hear 
> what I am playing with.  This may an issue with the ice1712 driver.  Is 
> there a way to "lock" the monitor so it stays where it is set?
>  >>
>  >> Also, it seems after several minutes of working in Ardour, and 
> especially when I am just playing back stuff, the entire workstation 
> will get stuck on a single sample that repeats endlessly and the machine 
> locks up and requires a reboot.  I'm not sure if this is an issue with 
> Ardour, JACK or Alsa, but I haven't seen the problem using Rosegarden 
> and JACK.
>  >>
>  >> -- Brett
>  >>
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