[ardour-users] ardour fails to record more than 1 take

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I'm not sure if I reported it but I had this problem quite a bit too

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From: <symposion at onlinehome.de>
To: <ardour-users at lists.ardour.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 3:42 PM
Subject: [ardour-users] ardour fails to record more than 1 take


> Hi,
> first i  will not forget to thank Paul and his crew for ardour/jack and to
> congratulate for the indeed breath-taking Progress, that ardour has made
> between beta 0.9.1 and beta0.9.11.
> To me arour and jack are the most important new LinuxApps this Year!
>
> Since the whole thing is in a state that allows to work seriously with it
i
> started to do so and find it quite stable and usable, i got only one
really
> serious problem, that i did not encounter when i tested 0.9.1, 0.9.8  etc.
>
> I usually setup a Session with 10-16 Stereotracks, Master and 2 Busses for
FX.
> All tracks are connected to the masterbus and i only connect a single
track to
> pcm-capture to record from my terratec ewx and unplug it when the
recording
> is done and/or when i want to record to the next track.
>
> since i work with beta 0.9.11.2  the following happens:
>
> 1.) i record one take, everything is fine
> 2.) i record a second take on the same track or on another and i get the
> message "UI-critical request : running out of memory - recompile with
larger
> size" plus a button to exit ardour
>
> ardour exits cleanly without destroying the project and manages it to keep
the
> take also, so i only have to restart it to get back to work on the song...
> The message shows up regardless of the size of the take - 5minutes or 5
> seconds - the next take breaks the session
>
> The System is:
> Athlon XP 1800,  512DDR-RAM, Terratec EWX 24/96 (Ice1712)
> ardour beta0.9.11.2
> jackd 0.9.8.1
>
> qjackctl shows the following:
> [jackd -R -t 500 -d alsa -d hw -r 44100 -p 1024 -n 2 -s -zr]
> JACK is started with PID=18847 (0x499f).
> jackd 0.98.1
> AND:
> loading driver ..
> apparent rate = 44100
> creating alsa driver ...
hw|hw|1024|2|44100|0|0|nomon|swmeter|soft-mode|32bit
> configuring for 44100Hz, period = 1024 frames, buffer = 2 periods
> Rectangular dithering at 16 bits
>
> both  are compiled and running under SUSE9.0 with StandartAthlonKernel and
> started as root in Windowmaker0.8
> jack uses ramfs for tempfiles, ardour runs from a seagate Barracuda 40Gig
,
> the project directory is on a second seagate Barracuda both are
DMA-enabeled
> and show good Performance (only to _arrange_ and play 20 Stereotracks
> 32Bit-float with 44100Hz works flawless xruns are as rare as never been
seen
> before - only buggy plugins or softsynths make the thing crack from time
to
> time...)
>
> I tried to find some workaround-VooDoo(move the new take to another track
> before recording the second, use another track for the next take etc) but
> find none, so i hope you could give a hint on what happens here and what
to
> do.
>
> I downloaded beta0.9.15 but make fails even though configure gave no
errors -
> i'd simply would like to stick with the working beta0.9.11 until Version 1
> shows up. I also tried to compile it in SUSE 9.1 but the distro is a
mess...
> but this is another story.
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