15 Sep
2011
15 Sep
'11
1:04 a.m.
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:48:39 +0200
Dominic Sacré <dominic.sacre(a)gmx.de> wrote:
I have a medium-sized Ardour session with a couple of
plugins on most
tracks, in which I'd like to record some additional tracks. Due to
the number of tracks and plugins, it's not possible to run
Ardour/JACK at very low latencies.
The same machine (and the same sound cards) is also used for
monitoring for the whole band, using a huge instance of JackMix. This
needs to be run with as little latency as possible (128 frames per
period, tops).
How can I solve this dilemma? Ardour's latency doesn't really matter
to me, as long as newly recorded regions are properly aligned with
existing material.
Bounce a temporary mix of your already recorded tracks and temporarily
inactivate those tracks (Track menu or right-click menu on the strip) to
make room for the new ones. Use the bounce as the only track playing and
active while you record the rest. Maybe this will save enough
horsepower so that your system deals with the load. At mix time, relax
the latency constraint and reactivate all the tracks.
HTH, have fun.
-- David