[Ardour-Users] Leopard blues: convenient pics to check out.

[Matthew Polashek]

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> Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:02:42 -0400
> From: "Christopher Bailey" <zipzappoozoo at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Ardour-Users] Leopard blues: convenient pics to check
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>>> I'm on MAC OSX 10.5 (Leopard), MacBook Intel core duo.
>>>
>>> I wrote about a week ago about being uncertain of the settings for the
>>> machine and for Jack. Right now, I'm unable to hear sounds.
>>>
>>> So . . I've posted jpgs of all of my current settings, in Jack, Audio
>>> setup and Ardour.
>>> http://works.music.columbia.edu/~chris/ardiss/<http://works.music.columbia.edu/%7Echris/ardiss/>
>>>
>>> If anyone can take a look at these and see what I'm doing wrong, much
>>> appreciated.
>>>       
>> 1) the "default system audio output" is pretty much irrelevant to JACK
>> except that it will use it by default under some circumstances
>> 2) you have chosen to use the "Aggregate Device" with JACK, for input
>> and output.
>> 3) the input gain and output volume for this device are set at zero
>>
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> Yes, as far as I can tell, it's impossible to set these.  In these pics
> http://works.music.columbia.edu/~chris/ardiss/
> (page has changed, re-load if necessary) you can see (well, maybe you can't
> see, but trust me) the volume/gain area "greyed out",  there is nothing I
> can do to change the values.  Anyone run into this?
>   

Chris - In my experience, the core audio setting are not important for 
Jack OSX, however using the built-in audio since Leopard on an apple 
laptop with Ardour is a huge mess.  Save yourself the headache and but a 
firewire or USB interface.

> However, I noticed that once I set up this useless agg device, apparently
> Ardour was successfully "faked out" into thinking that there was a device it
> could connect to , and so it let me actually start the application and load
> in some sounds for a new session.
>
> I noticed that sound (output at least, which is all I care about) was
> working at this point, even though I hadn't even started up Jack yet.
>
> Then  I noticed something even stranger.  I loaded in some audio to a
> session, and noted that the second or third instance of a sound (2nd and 3rd
> region copies of a sound) didn't actually play.  Odd . . .   (This is from a
> session entirely created from within Ardour).
>   

I have copied many, many, many regions into a single playlist (track) 
and never had any problems.  Make sure your region pastes are active and 
there is not gain automation working.

Matt

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