[LAU] Arch Wiki Professional_audio

[Joe Hartley]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2017 13:52:38 +0000
Fons Adriaensen <fons at linuxaudio.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 09:28:39AM -0400, Joe Hartley wrote:
> > On Thu, 30 Mar 2017 14:17:29 +0200
> > Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > For professional hard disc recording OTOH it's
> > > completely irrelevant as long as you aren't doing software monitoring
> > > with your onboard audio for "Professional audio".
> > 
> > Isn't it important when overdubbing?
> 
> Not if you listen to a mix of the reproduced trakcs and the direct
> sound (line in) of your instrument. Almost all soundcards allow this,
> otherwise use a simple analog mixer for monitoring.
> 
> The recorderd track is offset to compensate for latency, Ardour
> will do this automagically.
> 
> High latency will be a problem if the new track is a software
> instrument. But then it's a problem even when just playing
> along with other musicians, and not specific to overdubbing.

Thanks, Fons.  I'm a bit embarrassed at misunderstanding this for so long,
but every day I learn something new is a day not wasted!

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