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Ardour review 202011/15/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() To be honest in my own experience I’ve had to give up on Ardour MIDI for now but it is extremely odd to see different MIDI performance issues using the same Ardour version, obviously by the excellent work you’ve shown here in the Made with Ardour forum you are quite adept at using MIDI in Ardour so I don’t really have an answer for that… As for the Ardour MIDI performance issues I’m a bit baffled to be honest, the Ardour build on AVL 2020 is the official 5.12 release in KXStudio packaging (KX Studio uses the official Ardour bundles with some formatting into Deb packages). To be clear our custom AV Linux kernels come in both RT and lowlatency variants so once AVL is installed it is easy to install our lowlatency if the RT is not required. There are two huge misconceptions about RT kernels… one is that everybody needs them and the other is that nobody needs them… In my own experience using Linux for Audio production since 2006 or so it is often the case that a ‘lowlatency’ kernel will equal and on rare occasions exceed the performance of an full preempt RT Kernel with certain hardware, in fact often with Firewire and PCI devices there was often little difference, for me personally my first USB-2 Audio device was a Presonus 1818VSL and it’s performance without RT was quite terrible with a lowlatency kernel and could be cut in half with an RT Kernel with no other configuration tweaks… RT does not guarantee best performance but it offers better potential for systems that benefit from it. “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it!” And BTW your English is great! Much better than my French would be! Hi you for taking the time to take a look at AVL and give some feedback… Obviously AVL is not ideal for everyone and “never touch a working system” is always a good rule in the case of your existing setup. Please forgive my bad english, It was an attempt to give you a feedback from someone who really discovered AVL this time. Keep your good work!, your distro is nice, it was maybe not the right time for me to jump in, but be sure I will follow AVL closer now ! I take one lesson after this adventure, it is that distro-rolling is not to be lightly made in the audio production world, especially when you already have a working setup, as it takes much time to make your tools work smoothly again, and I prefer giving my time to music than system maintenance.īut after-all that was an interesting experience for me Synaptic gave me some broken things at the first refresh, something dealing with Cinerella I think Installed it with no matter at all, but I think that for the non tech-savvy ones, the restore-tool can be confusing, esp when dealing with gparted, maybe could the manual be auto-displayed when live-booting before installation Looks vanished, nice DE setup, I would just find more convenient to get an extra taskbar on the upperside of the desktop. It’s really not an AVL fault but I think that’s me, who maybe expected too much of that try, esp with the latency improvementĪbout your distro, here is my little feedback : Ardour gave me much more midi bugs, esp with the loop mode, than on my usual distro,I don’t understand but that was really annoying for my point of view as I use and abuse the loop mode in my midi writing workflow to preview audio.Īfter 3 days fightingt against those problems I choosed to go back to my usual setup as I did more maintenance than music. It was really a strugle for me to recover my projects in ardour, weird behavior with my LV2 presets(some fine, some lost) The RT-Kernel didn’t improve the latency performance for my setup VS the Low Latency one I usually use, maybe I expected too much on that point Not a pure distro problem, but 2 or 3 little things : ![]()
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