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0001373ardourotherpublic2020-04-19 20:12
Reporterbmueller Assigned Toseablade  
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
Status closedResolutionsuspended 
Summary0001373: beta 8: Speed of Visualization and processing, especially normalize
DescriptionIn comparison to other audio programms, Ardour runs very slow in some circumstances on my computer. Sometimes the image freezes, and scrolling down needs a lot of time (while playing for example), once I even got a dropout, while recording 20 channels of audio to an external firewiredisk (In a setup, which with Nuendo was testet to record 48 tracks without any problems with much lower buffer settings), while now other work was done on the computer.

Especially normalize seems to work rather slow. And I miss a "virtual" option like the one in samplitude, that only changes the regions (object) gain setting without the need to rewrite the whole files and therefor is very fast.
Additional InformationMacBook
Mac OS X 10.4
Intel Core Duo 2 GHz, 2 GB Ram
Recording on external Firewire Drive
Fireface 800 Soundcard
Jack 101.3
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paul

2006-12-19 20:43

administrator   ~0002926

normalize is "virtual" as you describe.

are you using plugins? plugins are responsible for 96.7823% of all slowdowns seen in ardour.

bmueller

2006-12-19 23:19

reporter   ~0002939

No, I didn´t came to the point of using plugins yet. I´m just trying the basic features at the moment. I recorded a concert with 20 tracks ( I couldn´t record all tracks I had, because of the limit I reported in another thread). 48k 32 bit aprox 2 hours recording time. All I did yet, is setting some volume and pan settings. And I tryed to add / remove audio. Nothing more.

seablade

2008-12-03 04:29

manager   ~0005429

Could you give some relative times you would expect to see for say, normalizing an hour long region? As mentioned above, normalize is completely notdestructive in Ardour, so there should be no need for a virtualize checkbox, however it still has to analyze the entire file in order to perform the action effectively, but it might be handy to have some benchmark comparisons. Thanks.

    Seablade

seablade

2009-01-15 00:48

manager   ~0005591

Resolving the issue due to the long period of time with no response.

    Seablade

system

2020-04-19 20:12

developer   ~0021491

Issue has been closed automatically, by Trigger Close Plugin.
Feel free to re-open with additional information if you think the issue is not resolved.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2006-12-19 01:17 bmueller New Issue
2006-12-19 20:43 paul Note Added: 0002926
2006-12-19 20:43 paul Status new => feedback
2006-12-19 23:19 bmueller Note Added: 0002939
2008-12-03 04:29 seablade Note Added: 0005429
2009-01-15 00:48 seablade cost => 0.00
2009-01-15 00:48 seablade Status feedback => resolved
2009-01-15 00:48 seablade Resolution open => suspended
2009-01-15 00:48 seablade Assigned To => seablade
2009-01-15 00:48 seablade Note Added: 0005591
2020-04-19 20:12 system Note Added: 0021491
2020-04-19 20:12 system Status resolved => closed