[linux-audio-dev] little question regarding Ardour

[Sampo Savolainen]

On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 17:05 +0000, zen95156 at zen.co.uk wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I started a session in Ardour - drag and dropped a .wav file, then recorded (sucessfully) from a Jack input.
> 
> Checking the session folder, Ardour appears to record to disc as it's going along (on-the-fly).
> 
> I presume Ardour can also route the incoming sound to its outputs, for monitoring.
> 
> Does anyone know what mechanism Ardour uses to do this?

See Windows -> Options-> misc -> "Use Software Monitoring" 

This mechanism will push the input sound to the track outputs when the
track is record enabled.

> (I'll walk blindly into speculation. Ardour uses a jack ringbuffer on its Jack input port, in the approved way - but that only leaves one read on the ringbuffer output...)  

You don't need to care about ringbuffers to get monitoring working. :)

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Sampo Savolainen <v2 at iki.fi>