Jamin causes xruns count to explode

  • saghaulor
Posted: Thu, 08/09/2007 - 15:25
I am posting another thread as I'm not sure if this belongs in my old on latency tweaking. Last night I finally tweaked Jack so that it ran stable, meaning zero xruns. The latency was acceptable as well. I was running Ardour and decided I would try to play around with Jackmin. Upon loading Jackmin the xruns began to skyrocket through the roof. Does anyone have any idea why this is happening?
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USB sound cards

  • xavier
  • 08/05/07
  • Fri, 08/10/2007 - 00:51
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Playback means that you can only play with your sound card but you can record internal sounds. USB sound cards usually works better if you use 3 Periods/Buffer in QJackCtl setup.

RE: I did mean Jamin

  • saghaulor
  • 08/06/07
  • Thu, 08/09/2007 - 19:50
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I'll give playback mode a shot tonight and see what it does. Hopefully I'll have a response for you by the end of the night. Hardware: Computer: Averatec 2300 Amd Turion 64 X2 TL-50 (1.6GHz) 1 gig DDR2 100 gig SATA HDD Dual Layer DVD+/-RW nVIDIA GeForce Go 6100 1 Firewire (4 pin) 3 UBS 2.0 4-in-1 Media Reader 12.1" WXVGA Display Sound Card: M-Audio Duo

Update

  • saghaulor
  • 08/06/07
  • Fri, 08/10/2007 - 00:10
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I tweaked Jack to run in playback mode. I then started Ardour without any xruns. I opened my previously recorded file, still no xruns. I then opened JAMin, still no xruns. A minute or two into the session I incurred one xrun and then another several minutes later. I figure with a slightly higher frames/latency I can run JAMin xrun free. My only concern is this. Will I be able to write the changes in JAMin to disk now that my settings are set to playback? I'm pretty sure I will be able to, I'm just asking to verify my belief. Daniel, again I thank you so much for you assistance.

Do you mean Jamin?

  • Daniel
  • 05/22/07
  • Thu, 08/09/2007 - 16:09
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Jamin is realtively CPU hungry, most mastering plugins are. It's fine to run Jack in playback only mode and increase your frames/period while mastering, as you wouldn't normally be overdubbing your project at the same time.

Hi saghaulor, That's perhaps

  • xavier
  • 08/05/07
  • Thu, 08/09/2007 - 16:02
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Hi saghaulor, That's perhaps due to your hardware, what's your system? Did you try to increase latency?