Package: ardour-i686 Version: 1:2.8.11-3 Severity: important Whenever I go to export an Ardour session with a significant number of LADSPA plugins to an audio file, I hear a loud, repetitive clicking noise that persists until I close Ardour. Playback does start when this noise is present, but proceeds too slowly to produce any sound, and the clicking continues during and after playback.
It doesn't happen if I have no LADSPA plugins in the session, but it does not appear to be traceable to a particular plugin or a particular session; it happens consistently wherever more than a few plugins are involved. The noise is definitely coming from the master bus, as disconnecting this from my system playback ports in qjackctl causes the noise to stop. However, the level meter for the master bus does not show any sound output, and the source of the noise is definitely _after_ the LADSPA chain, as adding a simple amplifier plugin to the end of it does not affect the volume of the noise. Muting the master bus causes the noise to go away, but it comes back after unmuting it. Soloing the master bus causes the frequency of the clicks to increase. Moving the pan controls has no effect unless they are both hard to one side, in which case the noise comes only from that channel. Bypassing a LADSPA plugin on the master bus causes a slight increase in click frequency, but not as much as soloing the master bus does. Some background system info: JACK version: jackd1 1:0.118+svn3796-7 Sound driver: oss4-dkms 4.2-build2003-1 JACK command line (called via qjackctl): /usr/bin/nice -n -19 /usr/bin/jackd -Z -t5000 -doss -r96000 -p1024 -n2 -w16 -P/dev/dsp -i0 Here is the full output of the ardour2 command for a typical session when this happens: --- BEGIN ARDOUR OUTPUT --- Ardour 2.8.11 (built using 7387 and GCC version 4.4.5) Copyright (C) 1999-2008 Paul Davis Some portions Copyright (C) Steve Harris, Ari Johnson, Brett Viren, Joel Baker Ardour comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see the source for copying conditions. loading default ui configuration file /etc/ardour2/ardour2_ui_default.conf loading user ui configuration file /home/parsifal/.ardour2/ardour2_ui.conf Loading ui configuration file /etc/ardour2/ardour2_ui_dark.rc theme_init() called from internal clearlooks engine ardour: [INFO]: Ardour will be limited to 1024 open files loading system configuration file /etc/ardour2/ardour_system.rc loading user configuration file /home/parsifal/.ardour2/ardour.rc ALSA lib seq_hw.c:457:(snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: No such file or directory ardour: [WARNING]: The ALSA MIDI system is not available. No ports based on it will be created ardour: [WARNING]: No MMC control (MIDI port "default" not available) ardour: [INFO]: No H/W specific optimizations in use librdf warning - Model does not support contexts librdf warning - Model does not support contexts librdf warning - Model does not support contexts librdf warning - Model does not support contexts librdf warning - Model does not support contexts librdf warning - Model does not support contexts librdf warning - Model does not support contexts librdf warning - Model does not support contexts ardour: [INFO]: looking for control protocols in /home/parsifal/.ardour2/surfaces/:/usr/lib/ardour2/surfaces/ ardour: [INFO]: Control protocol Tranzport not usable ardour: [INFO]: Control surface protocol discovered: "Generic MIDI" powermate: Opening of powermate failed - No such file or directory ardour: [INFO]: Control protocol powermate not usable ardour: [INFO]: Mackie: No MIDI port called mcu ardour: [INFO]: Control protocol Mackie not usable loading bindings from /etc/ardour2/mnemonic-us.bindings (ardour-2.8.11:22387): Gtk-WARNING **: EnableTranslation: missing action EnableTranslation Session writable based on /media/disk/ardour/20091102-messing_around/ Start export at pos = 2842782 Everybdy is at 2842782 Export ... not running or at end, no_roll() for 1024 --- END ARDOUR OUTPUT --- The very last line corresponds to the start of the clicking sounds. As you can see, there is no more output after this. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32.21-libre1-20100918 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages ardour-i686 depends on: ii jackd 5 JACK Audio Connection Kit (default ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.21-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libasound2 1.0.23-2 shared library for ALSA applicatio ii libatk1.0-0 1.30.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libaubio2 0.3.2-4+b2 a library for audio segmentation ii libc6 2.11.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libcairo2 1.8.10-6 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libcairomm-1.0-1 1.8.4-3 C++ wrappers for Cairo (shared lib ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.21.0-1 Multi-protocol file transfer libra ii libfftw3-3 3.2.2-1 library for computing Fast Fourier ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.4.2-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-2 GCC support library ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.2-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libglibmm-2.4-1c2a 2.24.2-1 C++ wrapper for the GLib toolkit ( ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.30.1-1 A powerful object-oriented display ii libgnomecanvasmm-2.6-1 2.26.0-1 C++ wrappers for libgnomecanvas2 ( ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-1+b1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a 1:2.20.3-1 C++ wrappers for GTK+ (shared libr ii libjack0 [libjack-0.11 1:0.118+svn3796-7 JACK Audio Connection Kit (librari ii liblo7 0.26~repack-5 Lightweight OSC library ii liblrdf0 0.4.0-3 a library to manipulate RDF files ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.1-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpangomm-1.4-1 2.26.2-1 C++ Wrapper for pango (shared libr ii libraptor1 1.4.21-2 Raptor RDF parser and serializer l ii librasqal2 0.9.20-1 Rasqal RDF query library ii librdf0 1.0.10-3 Redland Resource Description Frame ii libsamplerate0 0.1.7-3 Audio sample rate conversion libra ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.2.4.2-1 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libslv2-9 0.6.6-5 A library for simple use of LV2 pl ii libsndfile1 1.0.21-3 Library for reading/writing audio ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-16 userspace USB programming library ii libvamp-hostsdk3 2.1-1 helper library for Vamp hosts writ ii libvamp-sdk2 2.1-1 helper library for Vamp plugins wr ii libxml2 2.7.7.dfsg-4 GNOME XML library ii libxslt1.1 1.1.26-6 XSLT 1.0 processing library - runt ii python 2.6.6-3 interactive high-level object-orie ii python-gtk2 2.17.0-4 Python bindings for the GTK+ widge ii python-twisted 10.1.0-3 Event-based framework for internet Versions of packages ardour-i686 recommends: ii iceweasel [www-browser] 3.5.13-1 Web browser based on Firefox ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.2-9 WWW browsable pager with excellent ardour-i686 suggests no packages. -- debconf-show failed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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