From: Joern Nettingsmeier (nettings_at_folkwang-hochschule.de)
Date: 01/09/04 05:36 EST
Message-ID: <3FFE841A.1010102@folkwang-hochschule.de> From: Joern Nettingsmeier <nettings@folkwang-hochschule.de> Subject: Re: [Ardour-users] Still a new guy Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 11:36:10 +0100 (don't have ardour around atm, so some of my remarks from memory may be inaccurate.) Jim Dory wrote: > I'm probably not worthy of using ardour yet as I have some basic > recording ignorance. I hope you can suffer me a few questions. > > I have a minidisc with some stereo recordings I have made, using a > couple mics. I tried recording one of the discs to ardour tonight and I > think I made an error in judgement by using two tracks. Now I'm thinking > I should have just used one track with two inputs, n'est pas? I looked > at the new manual but it stops short yet of some key info. Looking > forward to seeing that completed. when you add a track via the menu, specify "stereo". presto: a track with two channels. > Mixing the two tracks together so I can burn a stereo cd is beyond my > knowledge of the program now. you can export it to a stereo file (export session). tick your first track in the left output column and your second track in "right". > Next question: I had a Xrun after maybe 25-30 minutes into the > recording. That isn't the end of the world as I can just cut off the > last tune and record again from there. But nobody wants xruns and it > would be nice to just let it record and not have to keep checking to see > if it stopped from an xrun.. which is what happened. I had jack running > from qjackctl and had the default 1024 I believe. I don't really > understand these numbers but I think another default was like 4 on the > periods? I think I read if you bump up to 2048 maybe you won't get xruns? you can tell ardour to bail out on an xrun by setting something in the options editor. that won't save your recording, but at least you know if something went wrong. > Another problem: I made a selection on the track, right clicked and hit > 'remove', and ardour crashed. I've done this a couple times.. > repeatable. I've also right-clicked/edit/cut and it crashes. It says > something about a segmentation fault. I'm not saying I have my gentoo > install perfectly configured by any stretch.. so it could be my system. please read the README and try to get a backtrace with gdb if you can. post it to the devel list stating which ardour and jack versions you are using. > Another problem: when starting ardour, I get two warning messages: > "two keys bound to mod 1" and "two keys bound to mod 4". Mod1 = Alt_l > and Alt_r, and Mod4= Super_l and Super_r. I've poked around and don't > know how or where to correct this. you don't need to. it can be set in the options editor iirc. > I was running in fluxbox to try and keep overhead down. Should I kill > syslogd and klogd during a session? Any other things? not necessary. you don't want huge cronjobs that hog the disk (like locatedb updates etc.), but the loggers don't hurt. be sure to have your jack tmpdir on a non-journalled fs or better yet on a tmpfs filesystem. but then you probably already have, or you'd have seen much more xruns. -- In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics! - Homer Simpson Jörn Nettingsmeier Kurfürstenstr 49, 45138 Essen, Germany http://spunk.dnsalias.org (my server) http://www.linuxaudiodev.org (Linux Audio Developers) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html _______________________________________________ Ardour-users mailing list Ardour-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ardour-users
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