[linux-audio-user] quick ardour question

[Jesse Chappell]

On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Jonathan Turner wrote:
> just a quick question (hopefully).  In ardour I've been able to get a track to 
> playback while recording another track, but I can't seem to play more than 
> two tracks at a time, nor am I able to play two tracks while recording 
> another.  Is this a ALSA/soundcard limitation (I have the intel 8x0 series)?

You probably have hardware monitoring enabled.  When it is you will only 
get the incoming signal of a recording track being output on that 
channel.  
To get the behavior you want, disable hardware monitoring in the 
Edit/Options... dialog.   You will then experience latency while 
monitoring, but you should be able to hear everything.  The latency is 
dependent on the jackd '-p' frames-per-period size.
 
> Okay, I lied, one more quick question... I've had ardour not play back samples 
> when recording and I can't seem to put my finger one what causes it to mute 
> the sample playback and what allows it to do duplex.

This is probably related to what I described above.

As for stability, it is still day-by-day.  There are more stable versions 
in the past, but there are significant missing features.  It is all pretty 
bleeding edge right now but worth trying out.  It is very difficult to 
lose data even though it might crash.

jlc