[ardour-users] Unable to add more tracks

Third Option thirdoption at hotmail.com
Mon Oct 11 22:43:33 PDT 2004


er i'm too drunk to read this whole thing

but no - 32 tracks - ardour can only do 32 outputs

32 - absolute  - 32

the HDSP has actually only 26 outputs - adat 24 and 2 spdif

er uhm
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Knecht" <markknecht at gmail.com>
To: "Third Option" <thirdoption at hotmail.com>
Cc: "Wolfgang Woehl" <tito at rumford.de>; <ardour-users at lists.ardour.org>
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 7:44 PM
Subject: Re: [ardour-users] Unable to add more tracks


> On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 18:29:54 -0500, Third Option
> <thirdoption at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > well I tell ya - I've had sessions of 32 tracks (that's the limit) and I
can
> > do that - I have run into this kind of thing, like I said, but I can
always
> > hack my way around it
> >
>
> Hi,
>    32 *stereo* tracks? That would sound like too many. Paul and I
> worked out that Ardour has 7 tracks, my sound card has 4, so that's
> 11. 64-11= 53. Divide that in half and I think you end up with 26
> tracks, or something at this level.
>
>    How this would apply on my HDSP 9652 I'm not clear. That card
> should have 52 card IOs. Add Ardour's 7 to that and you'd begin to
> think that the default setting for startign Jack would give you just a
> few channels. Seems weird if it realy ads up this way...
>
>    I got it to work in a new session with Jack started correctly
> before hand. The invocation:
>
> jackd -R -p 512 .....
>
> does increase the port count. With this setting I Was able to add 30
> stereo tracks without problems. However I have not tried putting audio
> in each of those tracks and proving I do not run into some other
> problem. More on that later.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>



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