[LAU] (Ardour) How to get rid of delay when recording ?

[Len Ovens]

On Sat, 13 Feb 2016, Daniel Sheeler wrote:

> What does it mean for a soundcard to provide hardware monitoring?  And
> when you monitor a recording, don't you want to hear a signal coming
> from the DAW instead of bypassing it or something?  I'm just generally
> confused about what is meant by HW monitoring :D.

A sound card that has HW monitoring, has both a direct output of the audio 
input as well as the audio from the computer. There is normally some kind 
of mixer to mix the two together so you  can hear them both at the same 
time. The idea is to not get the DAW to output the audio that you are 
recording, only the audio that has been previously recorded. Many Audio 
interfaces (small 2 io units) have a "balance" knob that mixes 
input monitoring with output from the DAW. If the card itself has no hw 
monitoring, an external mixer can do the same thing. In fact many of us 
use an external mixer anyway... just because it is there and also because 
it is often more flexable.

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Len Ovens
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