Hello!
I’m a long time GNU/Linux user (early 2000) and I just started to try to make music. I discovered Ardour and I really like it.
The problem I face is that when opening a session with many tracks in it and one track uses linuxsampler as the source, I then immediately get X-runs, which continue through out the entire session. I’ve tried to fiddle around with the settings in Jack but I constantly get X-runs. The CPU is about 70% idle according to top.
If I disconnect and reconnect from Jack within Ardour, the same thing happens.
The only solution I’ve found is to disable all tracks, then activate them one by one, then I get no X-runs what so ever and the session plays just fine. Or I could simply remove linuxsampler and replace it with a synth plugin (but that doesn’t give the sound I’m after in this case).
If I disconnect from jack and reconnect with all tracks enabled, the X-runs appear again.
I’ve created a screen recording of it here.
If I try to activate several tracks at once, I also get X-runs. The only solution I’ve found is as I mentioned above, to activate them one by one manually.
Even if I disable the track with linuxsampler as the audio source, but have all other tracks active, I still get the same result with X-runs when connecting to Jack.
It seems like something happens when Ardour connects to many tracks at the same time to Jack and have one track containing linuxsampler as the source (can it be some timing issue when multiple threads are getting mixed up or something, missing semaphores? I’m guessing widely here…).
I’m using Ubuntu Studio 19.04 on a laptop with 16GB RAM and this CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-8550U CPU @ 1.80GHz
I get this behaviour on both the built in sound card, as well as my external Behringer UMC202HD sound card.
Is this a problem in Ardour that get confused somehow when multiple tracks gets added to Jack simultaneously or is it solely a linuxsampler problem?
Has anyone seen this before?
Thanks for an awesome product!
I’m using the following packages of Ardour and linuxsampler
ardour 5.12.0-1kxstudio2v5
linuxsampler 2.1.0-1kxstudio1v5
running kernel
Linux gurkmediatop 5.0.0-23-lowlatency #24-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT Mon Jul 29 16:17:02 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux