[Ardour-Users] ardour 3.0 alpha season drawing to an end

[Al Thompson]

I had intended on putting Ardour through its MIDI paces this week, so
loaded up the new alpha9, started a new session, and recorded two MIDI
tracks.  I haven't added plugins or automation.  First off, I noticed
that alpha9 eats an incredible amount of CPU time.  I thought it may be
because I was using a previous version of jack, so I closed ardour and
upgraded to the latest which is in the Fedora 14 64 bit repo, which is
jackdmp 1.9.7.  Now, it's worse!  Upon starting alpha9 (open existing
session, which is my session with 2 MIDI tracks), I get a message in a
pop-up window which says:

"Please wait while Ardour loads visual data"

And then consumes 100% of my processor for 3 or 4 minutes, is totally
unresponsive, and will not redraw the screen.  I can connect MIDI
outputs and hit play after it comes back alive, and it works, but when I
hit rewind, it once again consumes 100% of the processor and hangs
ardour for several minutes.  The machine still responds, but ardour
itself it locked.

I can't go any further with testing this.  It's a bummer.  I was
motivated to start a new project on A3 and see what it could do.



On 07/12/2011 02:28 AM, Nando wrote:
> Hmm... I've seen that happen too. Wasn't sure it was Ardour's fault.
> I'll try to investigate.
>
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Al Thompson <althompson58 at gmail.com
> <mailto:althompson58 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 07/11/2011 09:45 PM, michael noble wrote:
>     > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:58 PM, Paul Davis
>     <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com <mailto:paul at linuxaudiosystems.com>>
>     wrote:
>     >> Alpha 10 (the next one) will be the least alpha release of
>     ardour 3.0.
>     >> The release after that will be beta1. Because of this is, it is
>     >> CRITICAL that users report two particular categories of bugs:
>     >>
>     >>   1) crashing bugs (this includes lockups/hangs)
>     >>   2) workflow issues that make certain desirable goals
>     impossible or
>     >> absurdly hard to accomplish (particulary with respect to MIDI)
>     >>
>     >> Please use the bug tracker at http://tracker.ardour.org/ to
>     report all
>     >> such issues.
>     >>
>     >> thanks,
>     >> --p
>     > Any kind of timeline on this? I'd like to do some testing but won't
>     > get a chance until this weekend or possibly the one after.
>     > _______________________________________________
>
>     I'm testing Alpha9 tonight, and hope we have some time to wring this
>     out.  I'm having some serious issues.  I just now had this pop up
>     when I
>     had let ardour set idle for a while:
>
>     [INFO]: looking for control protocols in
>     /opt/Ardour-3.0alpha9_9807-dbg/lib/surfaces
>     [INFO]: Control surface protocol discovered: "Mackie"
>     [INFO]: Control surface protocol discovered: "Generic MIDI"
>     [INFO]: Control surface protocol discovered: "Open Sound Control
>     (OSC)"
>     [INFO]: Loading menus from
>     /opt/Ardour-3.0alpha9_9807-dbg/etc/ardour.menus
>     [INFO]: Loading bindings from
>     /opt/Ardour-3.0alpha9_9807-dbg/etc/mnemonic-us.bindings
>     Loading history from
>     /home/al/Ardour3_Projects/Allegory_Illusions/Allegory
>     Illusions/Allegory
>     Illusions.history
>     [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
>     [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
>     [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
>     [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
>     [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
>     [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
>     [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
>     [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
>     [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
>     [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
>     [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
>     [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
>     [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
>     [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
>     [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
>     [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
>     [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
>     [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
>     [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
>     [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
>     [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
>     [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
>     [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
>

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