[ardour-users] Unable to add more tracks

[Mark Knecht]

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 16:04:56 +0200, Wolfgang Woehl <tito at rumford.de> wrote:

> > > > and then Ardour adds a mono track.
> > >
> > > Try increasing the -p value given to jackd (not the -p given to the
> > > alsa backend), that's "Port Maximum" and shows up on qjackctl's
> > > setup page.
> >
> > will try when I got booted up. However I think it's currently set to
> > something like 2. Why would this limit me to 9 stereo tracks?
> 
> Erm, the default in qjackctl is 128, and this is about *jackd's* -p
> option (*not* the alsa backend -p option). It increases the amount of
> memory jackd allocates for ports. Looks like
> 
> /usr/local/bin/jackstart -R -p512 -dalsa -dhw:0 -r48000 -p1024 -n2
>                             ^^^^^
> 
Tried it. Ardour allowed me to add one more stereo track, then it
defaulted back to only allowing me to add mono tracks.

More info. I closed Ardour, restarted both Jack and Ardour, and then
restarted the session. At this point I tried adding a single stereo
track. Earlier I was telling it to add 5-10 stereo tracks at a time.
This time, doing only one, it added it. I then added another, and
another, and another, one at a time. No problems until I got to number
10 again and then it dies on me and says it cannot add any more giving
me the message:

[ERROR]: IO: cannot register input port Audio 23/in 1
[ERROR]: cannot configure 2 in/2 out configuration for new audio track

at which time it still adds a track, but incorretly adds a mono track. 

so I close, shut down Jack, restart Jack and the session again and it
lets me go on adding tracks. I now have 23 stereo tracks in the
session. However, for whatevver reason, at this point I hit the
transport and the session does not roll... Maybe if I stop and restart
the session again???

Which it did just fine. So now Ihave an Ardour session with 23 stereo
tracks playing. Only the first 13 tracks have any audio in them, but
it is running on my laptop at -p64/-n2 with no xruns so far...

I think something needs to be looked at. Have the developers made any
large (very large, silly large) sessions?

- Mark