No new songs lately. I just got my studio built though so something should show up in the next couple of months. On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 20:16, Louis Lam wrote: > Hi Jan, how are u? any new songs recorded from your band? > Hello to everyone. > > --- Jan Depner <eviltwin69@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Louis, > > > > I've used this card before and it works well. A couple of questions - > > are you running 2.4 or 2.6 kernel? Are you running as root? One > > important thing with the ens1370/71 - always use -r 48000! The card > > will produce tons of xruns at 44100 because it's native mode is 48K. > > I'm running as root the whole time. 2.4.25-multimedia kernel from Agnula/DeMuDi. > > I did try to run jackd at 48Khz rate initially, but at that point of time I didn't notice the > xruns because I was only trying to test the card (maybe 2 weeks ago...). So I can't recall the > behaviour of this card at 48khz...not much impression. > > What I can remember from the time I ran jackd@48Khz and ardour was this: Ardour thinks that the > card is sampling at 47Khz! It shows up on the Ardour window. I find this odd because most of the > time I see common sampling rate 44khz,48khz but not 47khz. I asked this question on one of the IRC > channels and was told that no card really samples exactly at 48khz. For this "odd" sampling rate > reason and also most of the drum samples I use are at 44khz. I just set myself to record > everything at 44khz and didn't look at 48khz. So i kind of refrained from it for a while :) > > But thanks for the tip... perhaps I should try that again. > It couldn't hurt. > When i'm not having XRuns, I do have quite a number of "late driver wakeup" messages when running > with this card though. They appear quite frequently. I don't quite understand what this means > though. So far I can't find information/explanation for this. I was still able to record with > Ardour a track at a time while playing back the recorded stuff at the same time for 2 minutes > without pops, hisses and dropouts. I'm quite sure I can record more than 2 minutes under this > situation(2 minutes because I start to run out of ideas... not because the system can't take it > ;-P). > I have no idea what that is. > I have also tried to record with ardour with plugins on (don't have a guitar amp so using the CAPS > ladspa plugins), when I do that sometimes I get xruns and jack complains ardour is not "fast" > enough or something like that. For dry signals normally its not much of an issue. > Some of the TAP plugins (and others) are not real-time I think. Jan
