> Hello, > i am working quite intense on lerning ARDOUR by doing. Using its beta i > exrerience some bugs that are more or less tolerablein such great an App > for no cost (crashes when trying some adventurous routing-stuff, some > lesser gui-issues). > After all there are only 2 really serious problems: > > 1.)Importing .wav-files fails too often (regardless if these files are > written by Samplitude, Audacity, rezound or even Ardour itself) > > How is that on your setups out there? Many similar problems earlier. I haven't used the program since it went to it's first release. I expect its gotten better. > > 2.)Many xruns, (some after 2 seconds, others after 2 mins, mostly within > 40 secs or so - sometimes i had testrecordings of unbroken 10 minutes) > > I use Ardour on SuSE 8.2 pro with jack0.74 as root only on runlevel 3 in > Windowmaker, all networking is off, no kdeinit is running. I somehow doubt this is due to your hardware. More likely it's some set of interactions between the software that is running on your machine, or possibly the way you have your hardware configured. I would really try to understand this before you spend another penny, or you're likely to spend many dollars and make no forward progress. Overall, I would suggest that most xrun problems are caused by latency issues, and not by raw bandwidth until you get to the point where you are running many, many audio tracks. I think you are not at that point yet. Many things can effect this: 1) Gnome/KDE are compicated environments. For test purposes at least try something like fluxbox which runs almost nothing by defualt. (I don't know windowmaker - it may be pretty minimal already.) 2) Look at how you have your existing hardware installed and configured. Are you sharing interrupts? Are you using APIC, APIC-IO or ACPI? All of these can have major effects. 3) Test your existing hard drive/drives for bandwidth capabilities. (hdparm or Benno's disk test programs) 4) Do your xruns correspond to other things happening on the PC? Best of luck in finding the solution. Folks are here to help. Cheers, Mark
