What does it mean for a soundcard to provide hardware monitoring? And when you monitor a recording, don't you want to hear a signal coming from the DAW instead of bypassing it or something? I'm just generally confused about what is meant by HW monitoring :D. On Sat, 2016-02-13 at 23:31 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 13 Feb 2016 16:01:57 -0500, jonetsu@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > In Ardour 4.6.0 changing the monitoring from Ardour to hardware > > does > > not improve anything. > > That likely depends to the kind of "hardware" monitoring. > > I can't speak for direct hardware monitoring of your sound card, some > cards simply don't provide it and I can imagine that there could be a > pitfall, even if the card provides it and/or there is a chain of > digital gear. > > Reminds me of modern digital guitar stomp boxes. One stomp box has > such > a low latency that it isn't noticable, but not later than using three > stomp boxes in series and the latency becomes intolerable long. > > Consider to use an analog (not digital) mixing console with 2 sub > groups > and/or an aux that allows monitoring and don't use any chain of > digital > gear. > > Guitar (Mic) -> | | -> Monitoring > | mixing console | > DAW output -> | | -> DAW input > > This should give "c" monitoring latency. > > Regards, > Ralf > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
