What does it mean for a soundcard to provide hardware monitoring? And
when you monitor a recording, don't you want to hear a signal coming
from the DAW instead of bypassing it or something? I'm just generally
confused about what is meant by HW monitoring :D.
On Sat, 2016-02-13 at 23:31 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Feb 2016 16:01:57 -0500, jonetsu@teksavvy.com wrote:
> > In Ardour 4.6.0 changing the monitoring from Ardour to hardware
> > does
> > not improve anything.
>
> That likely depends to the kind of "hardware" monitoring.
>
> I can't speak for direct hardware monitoring of your sound card, some
> cards simply don't provide it and I can imagine that there could be a
> pitfall, even if the card provides it and/or there is a chain of
> digital gear.
>
> Reminds me of modern digital guitar stomp boxes. One stomp box has
> such
> a low latency that it isn't noticable, but not later than using three
> stomp boxes in series and the latency becomes intolerable long.
>
> Consider to use an analog (not digital) mixing console with 2 sub
> groups
> and/or an aux that allows monitoring and don't use any chain of
> digital
> gear.
>
> Guitar (Mic) -> | | -> Monitoring
> | mixing console |
> DAW output -> | | -> DAW input
>
> This should give "c" monitoring latency.
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
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