[LAU] (Ardour) How to get rid of delay when recording ? - status so far

[Robin Gareus]

On 02/15/2016 11:48 PM, jonetsu at teksavvy.com wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 13:48:24 -0800 (PST)
> Len Ovens <len at ovenwerks.net> wrote:
> 
>> Have to? 
> 
> Yes.  There is a race condition that prevents Ardour from exporting.
> It was described by Robin Gareus.  It is a quite old bug though, but
> Linux Mint 17 version of jackd has it.  So, I'm not really in the
> 'mood" of upgrading the OS to say, Mint 17.3.  The easiest way I see is
> to, simply, compile from upstream.

Easier is to use the Ardour's ALSA backend (or Dummy) for exporting.

Then again this bug was fixed more than 2 years go upstream in jack2, so
updating jackd is a good idea anyway.

> 
> On a related topic, eg. the impossibly to export, what would be the
> cleanest way to grab the stereo output from Ardour to a file ?
> 

Just play it back and record the master bus output with "timemachine" or
"jack_capture" or some other jack-audio recorder.

best,
robin