On Thursday 15 September 2011 01:05:44 David wrote: > Dominic Sacré <dominic.sacre@xxxxxx> wrote: > > I have a medium-sized Ardour session with a couple of plugins on > > most tracks, in which I'd like to record some additional tracks. > > Due to the number of tracks and plugins, it's not possible to run > > Ardour/JACK at very low latencies. > > > > The same machine (and the same sound cards) is also used for > > monitoring for the whole band, using a huge instance of JackMix. > > This needs to be run with as little latency as possible (128 > > frames per period, tops). > > > > How can I solve this dilemma? Ardour's latency doesn't really > > matter to me, as long as newly recorded regions are properly > > aligned with existing material. > > Bounce a temporary mix of your already recorded tracks and > temporarily inactivate those tracks (Track menu or right-click menu > on the strip) to make room for the new ones. Use the bounce as the > only track playing and active while you record the rest. Maybe this > will save enough horsepower so that your system deals with the load. > At mix time, relax the latency constraint and reactivate all the > tracks. Thanks, that seems like a good workaround, although it's not quite the kind of solution I was hoping for. But at least it'll allow me to finish the recording. Cheers, Dominic _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
