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

jonetsu at teksavvy.com jonetsu at teksavvy.com
Mon Feb 15 23:01:29 UTC 2016


On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 07:06:28 -0800 (PST)
Len Ovens <len at ovenwerks.net> wrote:

> 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.

Regarding this, what is the role that jackd plays, with  the -H --hwmon
option ?




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