Very frequent silent mode with the demo version

Installation & Configuration Linux
#1

Hello,
I’m trying to use Ardour and even if I’m far from making decent tracks I am currently learning a lot!

I thought the demo version was supposed to go silent mode every 10 minutes.
But in my case after a few minutes of Ardour usage, the silent pop-up appears approximately every minute! And sometimes (when I’m occupied with another application window) even if I click on the “give me more time” button when I get back to the Ardour window, the application remains in silent mode so I have no other choice than to close and reopen the session.

I couldn’t find any other report of this problem. Has somebody noticed something like that? Or has an idea of what may cause this issue?

I installed the “ready-to-run” Ardour 8.12 from the official website. I’m on Linux Mint based on a 22.04 Ubuntu. The only plugin I use for now is ZynAddSubFX.

Thanks

#2

First 10 mins, then 5 then 2 and then 1 min, until you restart Ardour.

#3

Oh OK, that’s why!
Thank you, I couldn’t find this information elsewhere.

#4

For complete information:

And sometimes (when I’m occupied with another application window) even if I click on the “give me more time” button when I get back to the Ardour window, the application remains in silent mode so I have no other choice than to close and reopen the session.

I discovered that this behavior was caused by the demo version of the ZynAddSubFX plugin (ZynAddSubFX 3.0.x Demo).

#5

Yes, the free/demo prebuilt version of Ardour never goes completely silent. The final “working time” is 1 minute, which you could theoretically keep resetting forever.

#6

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