Allen & Heath QU32 board issues

[Gale_Andrews]

@autodctr

With the newer version of both programs…

Do you mean Xubuntu 16.04 and Audacity 2.1.2?

@autodctr

…I noticed that there is no lag time from when I stop recording to when I can give the file a name and save it. With the older versions, there is considerable lag time: 30 seconds or so. When I click on the stop button (when done recording), the PC’s HD light runs for about 30 seconds. After it stops running, I can then save the file.

I don’t see that difference between Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 with any version of Audacity.

What window manager are you using? Xfce?

@autodctr

My guess is this: whatever is decreasing the time it takes for the PC to get done processing the file, is actually running and preventing the PC from properly recording the file.

I would be surprised if that was true. I think the difference may be the kernel you are using. You may want to choose a different kernel at boot. Ubuntu Studio uses a low-latency kernel by default to give high performance with audio, but in mainstream *buntu you may need to specially select or even install a low-latency kernel.

@autodctr

If I am only copying cassette tapes to Audacity (2 track stereo), I have no issues at all. It is only when I am recording 18 channels that I have issues.

Audacity records in lossless PCM. By default that is 20 MB of stereo data per minute. 18 channels is nine times that which you are asking the computer to push around (amongst all the other things that it is doing).


Gale

[autodctr]

Ubuntu 16.04 and Audacity 2.1.2 is what gave me problems. 14.04 and older Audacity work fine together. I don’t know which one is causing the problem: maybe both of them.

I am using XFCE. I have tried both Xubuntu and Ubuntu studio. Ubuntu Studio has the low latency kernel: Xbuntu does not. I tried both of them in both 32 bit and 64 bit. All 4 were tried on 2 different machines with clean wipes of HDs before install each time.

I realize that I am recording a lot of material when recording 18 tracks. I have one HD running the program and the recording goes to the second HD. All non-essential programs are disabled. I am recording at 44.1 with everything else at default settings: no problem whatsoever. But, when using the new Xubuntu and new Audacity, even reducing the quality of the recording drastically gave me that buzz/distortion.

The machine is only used for Sunday recording and nothing else at all. It works great now after reverting to the older programs and that is how it will stay.

Thanks for your help: just wish we could have figured it out: would have saved me from losing what little hair I had left.