[LAU] Misbehaving Ardour/TAP/SWH

[Kevin Cosgrove]

On 19 June 2007 at 8:09, peder at musikhuset.org wrote:

> I guess this is a bug of some sort, I'm just not sure who to blame :)
> 
> Create two mono tracks
> 
> Record something on track 1
> 
> Record something shorter on track 2
> 
> Add a TAP Eq on track 1 and a TAP Eq and SC4 mono on
> track 2 with the SC4 disabled.
> 
> Play from the beginning and notice how the first track
> gets silent when track two stops
> -------
> Remove/disable TAP Eq from track 1 and everything's fine
> or
> remove/disable TAP Eq from track 2 and everything's fine
> or
> enable SC4 mono on track 2 with the side effect that DSP load increases
> as track 2 ends (this is actually how I encountered the problem in the =20
> first place; I was testing the latest JAMin when, during a passage =20
> when both my
> vocal tracks that had the Eq/SC4 combo ended, things stopped working due
> to DSP overload)
> 
> If you replace SC4 with SC1 enabling it shuts off all sound.
> 
> This is tried with the latest svn (2024) of Ardour and the latest releases
> of TAP and SWH on an Athlon-XP 2000+ with 2.6.21.5-rt
> 
> Can someone else confirm this?

I've also had troubles with tracks going silent while using the
TAP Eq and SC plugins.  But, it's been a long time, like pre 0.99
ardour, since I've seen that.

G'luck....


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Kevin
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