With the most recent updates in Fedora 19 and Ardour 3.5 I am no longer able to open my old session whcih have more than 9 tracks and or busses. Also if I create a new session I can add only up to 9 mono tracks, or any combination of mono/stereo tracks with up to 9 inputs. I have an emu 1212 card and I was able to record up to all 12 channels from it (using external adat ada8000).
I am getting this error once the limit is reached:
[ERROR]: unable to create port: failed constructor
[ERROR]: could not create 1 new audio track
Same error when trying to add a buss or stereo or mono track. Also same error when trying to open an older session.
I am able to record with Reaper under wine on the same computer.
cajmere it seems that you pointed to the right thing … although I don’t see any limits in jackd that would cause this. This is the command line which starts jackd (max number of ports is set to 128):
There are more ports than you would think involved in setting up Ardour IIRC. For instance Click/Audition/etc. I can’t tell you if that number seems high or low based off your experience, except to say 128 is a really low number for most people to use;)