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The whole point of Ardour/JACK is to allow using external applications in an Ardour Session. Those also need to be included in the export, and switching to Dummy backend would exclude those. If you don't need this feature, don't use JACK. Like on Windows with PortAudio, prefer Ardour/ALSA (which is also a tad more efficient) or Ardour6/Pulseaudio (if you don't need to record). Alternatively export using the commandline util /opt/Ardour-5.12.0/bin/ardour5-export (that does use the dummy backend). |
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Oh - I see. I have always kept my Ardour sessions self-contained. Even in the old times of Ardour 2 whenever I used Hydrogen for drums, I would record Hydrogen's output into an audio track first before exporting my Ardour session. I never thought I could route in external software and keep it working. I have heard about using outboard gear (hence the Real-time option), but it never occurred to me I could also use external software. I use JACK over ALSA, because I often use multiple programs at once, and also I need to use FreeSound very often or reference videos online - if I were to use ALSA, I'd not be able to share my audio I/F with any other program. I'll see if I can export with the command line utility, though I'll miss the export analysis and summary features. Though maybe I'll create PNG files if I configure that? I doubt that, since these seem to be screenshots of the UI. Thanks! |
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As x42 noted, if you don't need to record, A6 has a PulseAudio backend that does just playback, and allows you to share the interface with other Pulse-using applications. |
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Oh! I missed that! That's interesting - I think it can simplify the work a lot of many people who only sequence and edit, not record! So far I haven't switched all my work to Ardour6, as there's some bugs I'm waiting to see fixed. PulseAudio support is mighty neat though! I wonder why doesn't it support capture though? |
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Pulseaudio cannot offer reliable capture latency, nor any accurate latency information. So recording overdubs is not possible. It's also not really suitable for any kind of reliable pro-audio work. The main motivation for this was to offer bluetooth support for guys mixing while traveling. |
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I see. That's gonna be pretty neat. I wouldn't mind even flawed PulseAudio capture possibility, as for example when I'm doing sound design I record various elements and then edit everything, so timing of my capture is not important. Though It'd be important that the captured audio is 24-bit (I am not sure if PulseAudio supports more than 16-bit samples?) Also -I wonder if with the commandline export I can export only selected timeline ranges? When iterating over sound effects I very often have dozens of CD ranges in my session and I usually export a few at a time to update them. If I save my session with chosen export ranges, will the commandline utility export only those? Screenshot_20200423_131352-1.png (62,685 bytes) |
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I've just tried exporting this session with ardour5-export, but it ended up in a SegFault, so I need to resort to the regular export. I can try and get a backtrace, but I don't know how to run it in gdb with approperiate commandline arguments. |
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Oh, ok seems like Calf plug-ins can't live in the headless version of Ardour: ardour5-export[174528]: segfault at 7f7cb00010d8 ip 00007f7c8154c16f sp 00007f7cb00010e0 error 6 in calf.so[7f7c81505000+e6000] I wonder why is that, but well - that's not Ardour's fault. |
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I've reported the problem to Calf: https://github.com/calf-studio-gear/calf/issues/249 |
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Re: "as for example when I'm doing sound design I record various elements and then edit everything, so timing of my capture is not important." I'm wary of opening Pandora's box. Once that would be possible users will expect it to work. Nobody reads the small print "only use for XXX". Pulse also re-samples when using multiple devices, and all capture settings including volume, are outside or Ardour's control. It is really not suitable to be used in a DAW context. With some luck pipewire will eventually solve this. PW also supports MIDI (Pulse doesn't). |
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The original idea "Switch to Dummy back-end when exporting in non-realtime using JACK" excludes other JACK apps from being exported. And using external 3rd party apps is the main reason why JACK exists, so this is counterproductive. |
- Anonymous
