[Ardour-Users] Aligning recording with existing material

Per Sigmond per at sigmond.no
Sun Oct 24 16:51:59 PDT 2010


I have RME and the setting is "Audio hardware does minitoring".

As I just said in a posting (sent 5 seconds before your answer came in) I 
found after some more testing that ardour 2.8.6 actually works perfectly while 
2.8.9 (and later) is misaligned.

/Per

On Monday 25 October 2010 01:42:58 Brett McCoy wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Per Sigmond <per at sigmond.no> wrote:
> > Using ardour 2.8.11 and jack 1.9.4 on Linux (PlanetCCRMA/fc11) I can't
> > get recording of new tracks aligned with existing audio. Recordings seem
> > to arrive late, and it gets worse when increasing frames/period in jack.
> > 
> > A few version ago (probably before 2.8.8) recordings used to be aligned
> > perfectly as long as I pressed play first and rec afterwards. If I did it
> > the other way around I got simular behaviour as the present version. Now
> > it is unaligned no matter in what order I do things, but it is at least
> > consistent
> > 
> > :-).
> > 
> > Anyone else experiencing this? If not, what should I look for to find the
> > error in my setup?
> > 
> > (Yes, I have checked that the tracks are configured to align with
> > existing material).
> 
> What kind of hardware are you using? Some hardware doesn't support
> direct monitoring and can introduce pretty bad latency. If do you have
> hardware that does support direct monitoring (like RME or M-Audio),
> you may not have this enabled in Ardour under Options->Monitoring

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