[linux-audio-user] Ardour's samplerate

[Paul Davis]

On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 19:42 +0100, prg at ichthyostega.de wrote:
> Am Montag, den 26.02.2007, 19:23 +0100 schrieb e:
> > When I start Ardour it always comes up in 48k,even when I start jack in 44100.
> 
> Ardour doesn't "start" with a specific sample rate. Rather, it uses the
> sample rate of the current session (which it deduces form the source
> samples used). Then, it tries to connect to jack, which -- of course
> will be only successfull, if there is a jackd with the correct sample
> rate currently running).

this is not correct. ardour has no concept of "session sample rate" at
all. it connects to JACK at whatever rate JACK is running at.

> PS: under some circumstances, Ardour is (was?) able to start up a
> jack demon on its own. You will see this on the output of the terminal
> you used to launch Ardour. Often this ist not what one would expect
> and want....

this capability exists in all JACK clients and is controlled by the JACK
environment variable JACK_NO_START_SERVER

--p