Newbie to Ardour and MixBus, I purchased and installed MixBus yesterday and used it all day without a problem. Today it will not pass audio to my MacBook Pro (hardware V6,2 – running MacOSX 10.6.7) built-in output. I tried both launching JackPilot and using the aggregate audio device I made specially for MixBus. On close inspection I see that audio is making it all the way to but not including the Master Output section of the Mixer. I see meter activity in all expected areas except for the Master output meter. It’s as if the Master Output is muted. Any clues for me?
Also, is there a search function for this forum? I poked around but could not find one.
I have no plug-ins installed and I see that signal is making it to the Master Bus because there is activity on the K Meter and the Tape Saturation meter. But nothing to the Master Out fader and meter.
Yeah, I saw the Search this site box after I posted my original message. It was buried under another sticky window. How embarrassing.
I’ve been having a similar problem - probably different cause however.
The behavior was that some sessions would occasionally load with a loud audible “click”, the session would then play with all individual channel levels displaying activity except the master output - in some cases both the master & bus channels would be inactive. No audio would pass to the monitors.The master output would have a static, very low level meter reading, which produced no audible sound.
Attempting to reload the session multiple times would reproduce this about 70% of the time, the other times it would load without a problem.
In this instance, the problem turned out to be a plugin. Sonalksis StereoTools. With it removed from the sessions, they load & play fine.