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

Paul Davis paul at linuxaudiosystems.com
Mon Feb 15 23:39:22 UTC 2016


On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 6:01 PM, jonetsu at teksavvy.com <jonetsu at teksavvy.com>
wrote:

> 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 ?
>

Ignore it.

(1) it only supports cards based on two chipsets
(2) it doesn't really do what most people need

Ignore it. I should never have added it.
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