[PlanetCCRMA] recording and latency with ardour

[Roy Vestal]

Followup question:

When I start recording in a session, the channel i'm recording doesn't 
play...however, it does record?!?!?!?

Where do I start troubleshooting this?

Jason Russler wrote:
> With that hardware, you shouldn't have to many problems on the 
> software side maintaining a very small buffer for JACK, so software 
> latency should be minimal.  That said, I'd check with the Ardour list 
> since there are a lot of users there that may already be doing 
> something similar (a lot of them are on this list too I imagine - I am).
>
> On 10/11/06, *Roy Vestal* <vestal@trilug.org 
> <mailto:vestal@trilug.org>> wrote:
>
>     I'm working on my first project with Ardour instead of ProTools. I
>     want
>     to be able to record while playing back...i have a headphone
>     monitor and
>     would like to be able to record live, say vocals and piano (in
>     stereo)
>     while using a scratch track and hydrogen as a click track (bug in jack
>     seems to prevent using click in ardour).
>
>     I'm looking at hardware monitoring vs software monitoring for
>     this. I'm
>     trying to understand how envy24ctl can be used to control my
>     output in
>     realtime.
>
>     Here's my setup:
>
>     FC5/CCRMA/Delta1010/AMD Sempron 3000+ with 512MB RAM
>     QJackCtl/JACK-Rack/Envy24Ctl
>     Ardour/Hydrogen
>
>     First 8 inputs to Ardour 1-8 (respectively)
>     Ardour outputs to Ardour Master Outs
>     Master Outs to outputs 1 and 2 (L/R respectively)
>     Aux 1 to headphone amp Left
>     Aux 2 to headphone amp Right
>
>     My ideas:
>     1: My board has TRS Send/Receive Inserts on each channel. Set each
>     input
>     directly back to the output, as well as Ardour and not use the Master
>     Out during recording, but for playback
>
>     2: route all inputs to Envy24Ctl as well as Ardour, and route
>     Envy24Ctl
>     outs (stereo) to outputs 1 and 2 on the board.
>
>     Do either of these sound correct/feesable to get rid of any
>     latency for
>     recording?
>
>     Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated...
>     Roy
>
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