[Ardour-Users] Ardour playback wrong when ardour is time master

[Axel 'the C.L.A.' Müller]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:57:39 +0200
Roberto Suarez Soto <talkingxouba at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 	I've recently reinstalled my system with Ubuntu "Maverick", and after
> that Ardour playback behaves strangely when Ardour is time master. I can't
> forward, rewind, loop or go anywhere: I can just play from the start. When I
> try, the playback cursor jumps again to its current position.
> 
> 	I launch Jack with qjackctl, and run Ardour and Hydrogen. If I use
> Hydrogen as time master, it works perfectly: I can do everything I can't with
> Ardour (i.e., play, rewind). I guess it's not a Jack problem. Besides, my
> personal settings (everything at "/home", to be precise) was preserved, so
> it shouldn't be a problem of new defaults or missing preferences.
> 
> 	Any hint to what may be happening? Something I can look into to see
> what's wrong?

I think I saw this same issue some time ago, but only with jack2. Back
then I didn't have the patience to investigate any further and
installed jack1 instead.

You might want to take a look wich version of jack you have installed.
>From a quick look at Ubuntu's package database I saw they have both
jack1 and jack2 in their repos for Maverick. Good luck. :)