[06:49] <yorwos> guyz , i will be doing some recordings next week i havent done any for some time , would u recommend real time kernel over low latency ? im using ubuntu studio 14.04
[07:18] <zequence> yorwos: Are you doing any software monitoring?
[07:19] <yorwos> um software monitoring ? ill be recording guitars in ardour
[07:20] <yorwos> drums from hydrogen
[07:20] <yorwos> ill be watching to get no peaks if that u mean as monitoring ?
[09:31] <zequence> yorwos: By monitoring, I mean, how are you listening to the input audio?
[09:32] <zequence> software monitoring means: microphone -> sound device -> computer (ardour) -> sound device -> speakers
[09:32] <zequence> for that, you need low latency
[09:32] <zequence> since the audio passws through the computer before it gets to your monitors (speakers)
[09:33] <zequence> Hardware monitoring means something like: microphone -> mixer -> speakers
[09:33] <zequence> Sound devices often have builtin mixers
[09:33] <yorwos> well it will be mic -> sound card -> ardour
[09:34] <yorwos> it is so loud i only listen after recorded
[09:34] <zequence> Ok, so you are not monitoring at all
[09:34] <yorwos> i do get feedback from metronome or drums though on headphones
[09:34] <yorwos> yea
[09:34] <zequence> You don't need low latency then
[09:35] <zequence> Which means, you could probably record using linux-generic
[09:35] <yorwos> thnx zequence
[09:35] <zequence> in jack settings (qjackctl), make sure you have a fairly big buffer size
[09:35] <zequence> 1024 is ok
[09:36] <zequence> linux-lowlatency is your best choice
[09:36] <zequence> If you ever want to record a software synthesizer, you will have no choice but to do software monitoring
[09:36] <zequence> IN that case, you will have to lower the buffer size, to get lower latency. The lower the latency, the bigger chance for audio dropouts (xruns)
[09:37] <zequence> qjacktl calls the buffer size "frames/period"
[09:37] <zequence> 64 frames/period is often enough for decent software monitoring
[09:38] <zequence> If your setup can't handle that without xruns, you might need to look at getting a realtime kernel
[09:38] <zequence> YOu only need low latency for live processing, which is what you do when software monitoring.
[09:42] <yorwos> i am using 256/48000/3 so far but i havent done any huge scale projects usually 2 channels each being recorded solo
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