I am very new to qtractor (longtime calkwalk/sonar) and must say it is one of the easiest, well functioned pieces of music software. Very impressed. I have worked through a number of issues but have come unstuck at the following. While trying record audio there was a delay between what I was playing and what I was hearing. I have done my googling and learnt of latency issues and direct monitoring. I am using a Edirol UA4FX, supported by Linux (Yes!!!) and am now able to record without delay. However when I come to laying down the next track there is now a delay with the second instrument (sounding much like an echo unit gone nuts). I think I am really close with this one and would love to start using qtractor full time, as stated it is very simple to just 'figure out'. Please help !!
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hi,
first of all thanks for considering qtractor
second, what are your actual jackd settings? are you using qjackctl or is it something else? what is your settled overall systemic latency inferred by sample-rate (-r), buffer-size (-p) and periods (-n)? the standard in the house, as for usb devices, is -r48000 -p128 -n3 resp. this makes up to 8ms latency which is a pretty standard all-purpose baseline :)
third, are you doing hardware direct monitoring? or are there any loopback or software shunt like direct connecting system:playback ports to system:capture?
is qtractor in auto-monitor mode (see Track/Auto Monitor) or have you current recording track selected/highlighted anyhow? is the tracks monitor button lit?
cheers
Rui, thanks for the reply.
Rui, thanks for the reply..What I have is (yes Jack)
Priorty=Default
Frames/Periods=1024
SampleRate=44100
Periods/Buffers=2
While Qtractor is playing Jack RT = between 3% and 4%
and just tried it and AutoMonitor seems to have done the trick (Unticking AutoMonitor that is). Brilliant. So what does Auitomonitor do then ??
re. what does Automonitor do ?
re. what does Automonitor do then ?
as the name implies, track auto-monitor just turns on monitoring (aka. pass-through) for the current selected/highlighted track;
track auto-monitor is of most convenience for MIDI tracks in particular, as it also filters incoming MIDI events through the tracks MIDI channel automatically which is of great use when recording your performance from a MIDI piano-keyboard or controller and listen for MIDI instrument (plugins) in immediate real-time.
cheers
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