Re: [LAU] Distorted sound

Len Ovens <len@ovenwerks.net> writes:

> On Wed, 9 Dec 2020, David Sumbler wrote:
>
>> The Messages tab of QJackCtl shows that jackd is running, but it
>> doesn't report anything extra when Qtractor is started. Yet on my
>> Ubuntu machines, QJackCtl knows automatically when I start Qtractor.
>>
>> Any ideas why QJackCtl doesn't seem to know what's trying to connect
>> through it?
>
> only few things I can think of:
> - Jackd is running as a different user
> - Jackd is not running as the "default" server
> (or Qtractor is set for something else)
> - jackd or Qtracktor is running as "sandboxed" application
> (sandboxed, like snap or flatpack)
>
> Things to check anyway

Could be a sample format mismatch, like interpreting a stereo track as
mono. That would likely already occur on import to Qtractor. When
recording new tracks within Qtractor, do they sound similarly distorted?

-- 
David Kastrup
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