[ardour-users] ardour full duplex problems?

[Brett W. McCoy]

On 8/30/05, max muston <radmaxntx at yahoo.com> wrote:

>  Let me tell you about my system. It's an AMD 64 bit processor, 1 gig of
> ram, an Maudio delta 44 which I'm running thru a mixer. Two hard drives 1
> for the main system ext3 and 1 formatted in jfs and setup with a LVM for
> future expansion. My opsys is  fedora core 4 x86-64. the ardour installation
> was extremely painful. Several of the depend packages for ardour had to be
> hacked because of the integer definitions were incompatible with the 64 bit
> system. But every thing seems to work, EXCEPT: let me pause and emphasize
> that I am somewhat savvy on computers but  am brand new to digital audio
> recorders. 
> 
> Perceived problem: I can get audio from an input port to route to any output
> port ether thru a jack patch program or thru ardour itself, but as soon as I
> push the play button to begin recording the output port goes dead. The audio
>  that is introduced into the input port is recorded but I can't monitor the
> track at least until I quit recording and play back the track. 

You need to turn on monitoring for the Delta card so you can hear what
you are recording.  This has nothing to do with Ardour or Jack... you
will need the envy24control utility that is bundled with alsatools. 
If you set the tool to use the digital mixer, you can use the
zero-latency monitoring the card provides.  Oh, yeah, make sure you
have software or hardware monitoring turned OFF in Jack and Ardour,
because it will cause strange things to happen if you are using the
envy24control monitoring.

-- Brett
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